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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: May 12, 2015
Attending: Filipe Bento, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Tod Olson
Agenda
1. Development Updates
JIRA Tickets
- VUFIND-1033 - A workaround has been found to address the Bootstrap autocomplete limitation discussed here, so the ticket is now resolved.
- VUFIND-1111 - A significant bug in the translation system was reported here (related to the changes introduced in the latest Zend Framework release); this results in the footer of every page being incorrectly translated in release 2.4. A fix will be included in release 2.4.1.
- VUFIND-1112 - This discussion of bad OpenURL links turned out to be related to a local customization, but it raised some questions about better generic behavior that might be worth discussing further.
- VUFIND-1113 - This ticket reports bugs in the hierarchy system; Demian will investigate soon.
Pull Requests
- #356 - merged - An adjustment to the Travis configuration to resolve a problem caused by a Travis update.
- #358 - merged - An update to ReCaptcha support to account for API changes.
- #360 - merged - Minor fix to the “library cards” functionality.
- #361 - merged - Performance improvement: do no activate highlighting support when unnecessary.
- #362 - merged - Performance improvement: lazy MARC record loading.
- #363 - merged - Minor fix to the deduplication listener.
- #364 - merged - Use 856$3 as another option for labeling URLs in the UI.
- #365 - merged - Workaround for a limitation of Piwik which was causing some custom variable values to be lost.
- #366 - in progress - Facet-specific sort configuration to allow some facet fields to be sorted alphabetically.
- #367 - in progress - Proof of concept refactoring to make recommendation module processing event-driven.
- #368 - in progress - Improvements to translation of hierarchical facets.
- #369 - merged - Removal of empty action attributes from forms in bootstrap3 theme for HTML5 standards compliance.
- #370 - merged - Improved comments in the [Http] section of config.ini to help with SSL configuration.
- #371 - in progress - Support for offloading full MARC records to an external service to reduce index size.
2. Development Planning
Call Number Normalization
Improved Author Indexing
Demian has made progress on #354, making all of the necessary PHP and XSLT updates to deal with multi-valued primary authors. At this point, the only outstanding issues have to do with porting the indexing routines into the SolrMarc core and dealing with the “author initials” portion of the original proposal (which is essentially a separate issue). Testing/feedback would be appreciated at this point.
Solr Upgrade?
VuFind Solutions GitHub
The “offcanvas” feature used as an example last time has been made configurable and merged to master, so we need a new sample feature to move this forward!
Permissions
VuFind API
Some discussion recently arose on the list about giving VuFind a more robust API for accessing information programmatically. Ideas and suggestions for such a project would be welcomed.
3. Other Topics?
Next Call
The next call will be Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT).