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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: October 29, 2013
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Agenda
1. Recent Development History
JIRA Tickets
- VUFIND-412, VUFIND-413, VUFIND-509, VUFIND-711, VUFIND-731 - Several new features (automatic XML fixing, redirect support, harvesting of multiple sets, –from/–until parameters, basic authentication) have been added to the OAI-PMH harvester.
- VUFIND-657 - Luke has posted updated call number normalization code here.
- VUFIND-743 - A new tag management patch from Luke has been posted here; please test and comment.
- VUFIND-908 - This Horizon driver fix has been committed.
- VUFIND-915 - Case-insensitive Booleans can now be configured more flexibly (to make only certain operators case-insensitive – e.g. AND/OR but not NOT).
- VUFIND-916 - This fixes a bug in the retrieveBatch search service method.
- VUFIND-919 - This ticket proposes a more generic mechanism for configuring range facets.
- VUFIND-920 - This ticket fixes a bug that caused advanced searches to fail to provide spelling suggestions.
- VUFIND-921 - This resolved ticket makes the Pazpar2 backend more compliant with the proper protocol.
- VUFIND-922 - This resolved ticket makes display of range filters more human-readable and language-non-specific.
- Additionally, several Bootstrap-theme-related tickets have been resolved.
Pull Requests
- #36 - Advanced facets have been merged.
- #41 - These Aleph improvements have been merged.
- #44 - This RDFa improvement (along with the previous RDFa PR) has been merged.
- #46 - This PR makes the VuFind module test suite more generic, so local tests can be run without having to modify core code.
- #47 - This merged PR makes VuFind's Apache configuration compatible with newer versions of Apache (that change permission configuration syntax) without breaking backward compatibility.
- #48 - This ticket adds support for Less CSS compilation in the Bootstrap theme.
2. Development Updates/Planning
Bootstrap Theme
We have continued making minor improvements. Chris has also opened a PR to use Less for CSS generation; we should discuss this in more detail.
Solr Cache Settings
Eoghan pointed out that some of our cache settings seem excessively high. At least one Solr expert agrees. Should we change them? If so, how do we determine better values?
Goals for 2.2
eDisMax
An edismax branch has been established in GitHub (see this pull request); however, we need to decide how to proceed due to a Solr issue that causes edismax to handle NOT and - queries poorly.
VuDL
The VuDL front end code has been committed to master.
3. VuFind Summit 2013
The summit was a success – video can be viewed on the VuFind Summit 2013 page.
4. Other Topics?
Next Call
The next call will be Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (15:00 GMT).
IMPORTANT: Note the change from EDT to EST!