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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: April 29, 2014

Attending:

Agenda

1. Development Updates

JIRA Tickets

  • VUFIND-313 - Optional ReCaptcha support has been added to several VuFind forms.
  • VUFIND-972 - As discussed on an earlier call, the signature of the getHolding ILS driver method has now been changed to ($id, array $patron = null).
  • VUFIND-976 - This turned out to be a local problem; closed with no action necessary.
  • VUFIND-977 - This ticket is a duplicate of VUFIND-681; Luke is doing some work on random record retrieval.
  • VUFIND-978 - This ticket proposes an improvement to the headers used with cover images to encourage caching.
  • VUFIND-979 - This ticket discusses the current state of VuFind 2 command line tools.

Pull Requests

  • #133, #140 - These merged PRs resolve some PHPMD warnings and refactor code for clarity.
  • #134, #135 - These merged PRs fix some translation issues in the Bootstrap theme.
  • #136 - This work-in-progress PR adds a visualization view (courtesy of Julia Bauder).
  • #137 - This merged PR refactors some of the helpers used for ILS features like holds and ILL to clarify the class hierarchy.
  • #138 - This merged PR is a small template bug fix (don't over-escape HTML in one place).
  • #139 - This merged PR adds better support for RDA-style publication fields in MARC record display.
  • #141 - This merged PR fixes a bug in searchspecs caching.
  • #142 - This PR implements a search backend for the deprecated but still available EBSCO Integration Toolkit (see also VUFIND-423).
  • #143 - This PR adds PostgreSQL support to the installer; Demian will review soon.

ZF2 Upgrade

Demian has upgraded Zend Framework to 2.2.7; this is a small bug-fix release that should have no impact on existing VuFind code.

2. Development Planning

Performance Testing

Call Number Normalization

New OCLC API

OCLC is looking for a volunteer developer to work on a VuFind module for the new WorldCat Discovery API; if anyone is interested, Demian can pass along contact information.

3. Marketing

Design draft 1 by Chris: http://www.crhallberg.com/newvufind/

4. Other Topics?

Next Call

The next call will be Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT).

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