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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: January 5, 2016
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Agenda
1. Development Updates
JIRA Tickets
- VUFIND-1140 - This ticket was opened to track the need for a cover image metadata API as discussed on the previous call.
- VUFIND-1141 - This is a reminder to issue and upgrade to a new SolrMarc release prior to the next VuFind release in order to capture some important changes to the VuFindIndexer.
- VUFIND-1142 - This ticket covers OCLC's xID service shutdown, which will affect most versions of VuFind.
Pull Requests
- #535 -
- Browse handler #18 - Improvements to the NACO normalizer from Tod Olson; currently working on fixing a broken test.
2. Development Planning
Release 2.5.1
It may be time for a new point release to incorporate the “OCLC x-services shutdown” changes into an official release before the APIs go offline.
Improved Author Indexing
André and Demian have been discussing author initials indexing and whether to include a custom SolrMarc function or use a Solr field-based solution.
Delimited Facets
Luke O'Sullivan has finished developing this feature in PR #528.
Revised Dependency Management
We need to decide when to merge PR #501.
Eliminate "VuFind" source in Database
We need to decide when to merge PR #534.
Solr Upgrade
Demian changed TextFacetRaw to StrField following the previous call's discussion.
We're still waiting for Solr 5.4 before doing further docValues investigation.
Javascript Reorganization
Cover Issues
API
Modularization
Improved Use of Permissions
3. Wiki Reorganization
4. Other Topics?
Next Call
The next call will be Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 9am Eastern Standard Time (14:00 GMT).