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 ====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: January 22, 2013 ======
-Attending:
+Attending: Filipe Bento, Demian Katz, Benjamin Mosior, Sean Purcell, Al Rykhus
 ===== Agenda =====
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   * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-294|VUFIND-294]] - The VuFind 2.0 MySQL database now uses UTF-8 instead of Latin-1 text encoding for more consistent functionality.
   * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-340|VUFIND-340]] - Improved password security has been committed for VuFind 2.x.
-  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-630|VUFIND-630]] - Demian has posted some notes here about a Windows-only bug related to Wikipedia parsing; a workaround has been found, though the ticket is still open since there are several possible long-term resolutions.  Eoghan has proposed linking to the ticket from Windows install documentation, [[..:use_of_external_content|external content page]], config.ini and/or the 2.x auto-installer.
+  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-630|VUFIND-630]] - Demian has posted some notes here about a Windows-only bug related to Wikipedia parsing; a workaround has been found, though the ticket is still open since there are several possible long-term resolutions.  Eoghan has proposed linking to the ticket from Windows install documentation, [[configuration:external_content|external content page]], config.ini and/or the 2.x auto-installer.
   * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-631|VUFIND-631]] - Lists now correctly populate the "created" field in the database when inserted (ticket closed).
   * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-643|VUFIND-643]] - More progress has been made on the 2.0 version of the MultiBackend ILS driver.
+  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-659|VUFIND-659]] - Demian has done some further investigation and added comments to this ticket (about problems with time zone inconsistencies when tracking record changes in the database).
   * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-732|VUFIND-732]] - This ticket was spam and has been deleted.
   * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-733|VUFIND-733]] - This ticket includes some install controller functionality to upgrade VuFind 2 to use secure passwords.  It has been committed along with [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-340|VUFIND-340]].
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 ==== 2. VuFind 1.4 Update ====
+The release is still on schedule for next week -- just waiting on some language files and possibly a SolrMarc upgrade.
 ==== 3. VuFind 2.0 Update ====
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 ==== 4. Continuous Integration ====
-Demian has upgraded the Jenkins continuous integration server to the latest version; this does not seem to have caused any problems.
+Demian has upgraded the [[http://vufind.org/hudson|Jenkins]] continuous integration server to the latest version; this does not seem to have caused any problems.
 The VuFind 2 job has been enhanced with some new features:
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   * PHP_Depend data (to measure various software metrics)
   * PHPMD ("mess detector" for warning about potentially problematic code)
+  * jslint provides style compliance warnings about Javascript code (merged into the same style graph used for PHP issues)
 All of this will make builds take a bit longer, but it will provide a lot more information within Jenkins and should help us further improve the code.
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 ==== 5. Linked Data ====
+No major developments this week, though Filipe shared some new open-data URLs he recently discovered:
+  * [[http://datahub.io/]]
+  * [[http://lod2.eu/Welcome.html]]
+  * [[http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rt506/LOD/]]
+  * [[http://okfn.org/]]
+  * [[http://roar.eprints.org/view/type/opendata.html]]
 ==== 6. Other Topics? ====
+Al is working on a problem with his AlphaBrowse customizations: user input needs to be normalized to match the indexed data so that when a user types a search to jump to a particular position in the browse list, they actually go to the correct position.  Al will try to solve this through custom PHP normalization routines (though it would be nice to have a way to use the same Java routines for indexing and searching, similar to Solr analysis chains... but this may be less practical at present).
+Sean asked about entry points to learning the 2.0 code -- Demian will try to write some blog posts about unit testing to make that option more viable.  He also suggested looking at the new PHPMD results in [[http://vufind.org/hudson|Jenkins]] -- investigating possible problem areas in the code might be a good way to dive in and begin learning about it.
+There was also some discussion about VuFind's compliance with Zend Framework 2 conventions/standards; Demian has tried to follow existing practices (with the exception of the theme system, which is intentionally different).  However, it is very possible that some details have been missed -- feel free to share any concerns when reviewing the code.
+Filipe also talked about the Solr [[http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler|DataImportHandler]], which offers capabilities for populating the Solr index using external data sources (including RSS feeds).  There was some discussion of the fact that indexing an RSS feed directly could make rebuilding the index difficult -- some archival process (or possibly use of Google Reader's existing archive/API) may be necessary in parallel with indexing to capture the data necessary to rebuild.
 ===== Next Call =====
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 The next call will be Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (15:00 GMT).
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