Attending:

• VUFIND-169 / VUFIND-629 - Ronan's patch to use VIAF to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia retrievals has been ported to 2.0 and committed as a new optional feature of the AuthorInfo recommendation module; no changes have been committed to 1.x in the interest of simplicity (though the patch remains available on VUFIND-629); VUFIND-169 has also been closed since this improvement addresses the main need of that ticket. If any of the specific VUFIND-169 suggestions are implemented as additional options, these should be covered by separate tickets.
• VUFIND-421 - Hierarchy support is now fully implemented, so this ticket is closed.
• VUFIND-596 - Ronan's improvements to VuFind's use of 7xx MARC linking fields have been committed (1.x and 2.0).
• VUFIND-670 - David has completed some YAML-related refactoring; Demian will review and merge shortly.
• VUFIND-702 - An updated 2.0 installer with architecture-aware instructions for Apache configuration has been posted here; Demian will review (and likely commit) soon.
• VUFIND-708 - This is a minor Shibboleth bug fix (avoid blank usernames) and has been committed to 1.x (2.0 already solved the issue).
• VUFIND-709 - This ticket addresses some odd side effects of functionality to make searches with trailing question marks work more intuitively; a proposed patch is attached, but the fix doesn't completely solve the problem, so nothing has been committed yet.
• VUFIND-710, VUFIND-712, VUFIND-715 - These tickets point out some problems with VuFind's YAML search configuration relying on eccentricities of the Horde/YAML parser which break more standards-based YAML readers and propose switching to a different YAML library. There is also some discussion about the possibility of moving away from YAML entirely.
• VUFIND-711 - This ticket proposes a configuration option to allow OAI-PMH harvesting of password-protected repositories; a patch is forthcoming.
• VUFIND-713 - This ticket was opened to track David's progress on his search component refactoring.
• VUFIND-714 - This ticket reports a possible bug in the NewGenLib ILS driver.
• VUFIND-716 - This ticket reports a bug in 1.x where AJAX calls can affect the “last search” saved in the session under some circumstances; Demian will investigate whether 2.0 is affected (probably not) and consider whether a 1.x trunk fix is worth the effort.

Demian has continued working on the collection branch functionality; as noted above, hierarchy trees are now fully functional in 2.0 (including search within trees). This feature is now documented.

No other topics this week.

The next call will be Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (15:00 GMT).