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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: November 10, 2015
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Agenda
1. Development Updates
JIRA Tickets
- VUFIND-1131 - This ticket suggests a UI improvement for renewals.
- VUFIND-1133 - This ticket relates to the fact that auto-focus of search boxes is not currently working due to a bug in the Bootstrap autocomplete library.
- VUFIND-1134 - This ticket requests a Libraryh3lp chat plugin; Demian has implemented one.
Several spam tickets have been deleted.
Pull Requests
- #496 - merged - improved configuration reading for combined search.
- #497 - in progress - work on relators for the “improved author indexing” PR.
- #498 - merged - bug fix for retrieving multiple records by ID while sharding.
- #499 - merged - made the “similar” recommendation module backend-agnostic (was previously hard-coded to “Solr”).
- #500 - in progress - work on adding shard configuration to combined search columns.
- #501 - in progress - work on removing bundled dependencies from VuFind.
- #504 - merged - Translation fix.
- #505 - merged - Template typo fix.
2. Development Planning
Improved Author Indexing
Solr Upgrade
Javascript Reorganization
3. VuFind 3 Roadmapping
These items were noted down at the VuFind Summit; we should determine which should move to the ongoing development discussion, which should become JIRA tickets, who should work on what, etc.
Refactoring of Modules
- Separate modules for search backends?
- How much is too much?
- ILS drivers to a module with DAIA/PAIA interface
API
- Where? How?
- Simple extension of existing RSS feed? What else?
- Consider on a per-module basis for organization
- Needs to be extendable
Permissions
- Move forward with Demian's email proposal
Language Namespacing
- Tokenize more, chunk less
- API strings are a problem (EDS)
- Move towards Translate Wiki
Minimum system requirements
- Solr 5?
- PHP 5.5?
- Compare to requirements of Zend Framework 3
Should we continue to bundle the vendor directory?
- Leaning towards no
- Install package would be fine
- Git hooks
More asynchronous loading of inline elements
- Holdings Tab
- More Like This
Investigate new Solr spelling options
Support Solr date range fields (Solr 5)
Revisit binary availability status in ILS interface.
Cover generator options
- Cache proxied urls
- Pattern-based image retrieval from local file system
Better documentation about command line tools, LESS, etc.
4. Next Call Date/Platform
There has been some renewed discussion about the call platform; there may be a need to find a more Linux-friendly call mechanism without the 10-person limitation of Google Hangouts.
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, November 24 is not going to be a good date for a call. Instead, we will wait for December 8.
5. Other Topics?
Next Call
The next call will be Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (15:00 GMT).