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developers_call:minutes20140304

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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: March 4, 2014

Attending: Filipe Bento, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Ben Wiens

Agenda

1. Development Updates

JIRA Tickets

  • VUFIND-527 - There has been some recent discussion on this ticket about “bound-with” / “bound-in” relationships; feel free to join in if this topic is relevant to you.
  • VUFIND-624 / VUFIND-847 - Solr-driven “new items” search has been implemented.
  • VUFIND-627 - Advanced search date range handling has been made more generic.
  • VUFIND-953 - This ticket requests a feature to limit the email domains allowed to be used by new accounts when using the Database authentication method. It has been implemented.
  • VUFIND-954 - This was a user problem that did not require VuFind code changes.
  • VUFIND-955 - Several problems were found in Bootstrap theme cart/lightbox code; they have been corrected and pushed out in the 2.2.1 release.
  • VUFIND-956 - This ticket requests AJAX versions of Summon recommendation modules to prevent Summon outages from crashing VuFind. They have been implemented.
  • VUFIND-957 - This ticket tracks the idea of a dynamic cover image generator.
  • VUFIND-958 - This ticket tracks a small cosmetic issue in Bootstrap that is fixed in the 2.2.1 release.
  • VUFIND-959 - This ticket adds record URLs in the dc:identifier field of Dublin Core OAI-PMH responses.
  • VUFIND-960 - This ticket suggests a better workflow for creating accounts from within lightboxes in the Bootstrap theme; not implemented yet.
  • VUFIND-961 - This ticket makes “edit favorite” functionality more tolerant of records that no longer exist in the index.
  • VUFIND-962 - This ticket addresses a Wikipedia author bug; a fix is included in 2.2.1.
  • VUFIND-963 - This ticket reports some unusual behavior related to CAS authentication; Demian will investigate but may require assistance from a CAS user (depending on how easily reproducible the problem is).

Pull Requests

Several PR's pending the 2.2 release have now been merged.

  • #86 / #89 / #94 - These PR's contain some minor fixes related to storage retrieval requests – merged.
  • #87 - This fixes a bug in MultiILS authentication – merged.
  • #90 - Swedish language file improvements – merged.
  • #92 - This adds an ILL feature with Voyager support as well as making some performance improvements to the Voyager driver; Demian will test and merge soon.
  • #93 - This adds an optional Javascript session keep-alive feature – merged.
  • #96 - This adds an LBS4 ILS driver; Demian will merge after receiving more feedback from other LBS4 users.
  • #98 / #100 - These is updates to the VuDL code have been merged.
  • #101 - This improvement to the Aleph driver's configurability has been merged.

2. Development Planning

2.2.1 Release

As mentioned above, 2.2.1 was released on 2/26 to address (primarily) some bugs in the Bootstrap/Bootprint themes.

Performance Testing

Call Number Normalization

module.config.php Cleanup

Demian has completed the proposed refactoring.

entityExpansionLimit Setting

3. Marketing

4. Other Topics?

JIRA has been upgraded due to a security vulnerability.

Next Call

The next call will be Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (15:00 GMT).

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