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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: January 17, 2017
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Agenda
1. Development Updates
JIRA Tickets
No new activity.
Pull Requests
- #873 - merged - A solution to the inconsistent question mark processing noted by VUFIND-1217, also including some general improvements to query processing (including the elimination of unwanted side effects).
- #874 - in progress - Work in progress on an improved Koha ILS driver.
- #875 - merged - Lightbox bug fix
- #876 - merged - Cart cookie bug fix
- #878 - in progress - Eliminate eval() from the lightbox code for security purposes.
- #879 - merged - Support for extended subject heading data in record drivers (used by API)
- #880 - merged - Avoid out of memory errors in Phing
- #881 - in progress - Proposed changes to mobile search result appearance.
- #882 - in progress - Improvements to page load performance.
- #883 - in progress - Elimination of obsolete BeanShell scripts and reorganization of custom SolrMarc indexing routines.
- #884 - in progress - Proposed changes to book bag UI
- #885 - in progress - Implementation of configurable search placeholder text
- #886 - merged - Bug fix for checkbox selection in search results
- #888 - in progress - Proposed improvements to the terms() method of the Solr search backend
- #889 - in progress - Bug fix to KohaILSDI driver.
Release 3.1.2
The release went out yesterday, as planned. As usual, a couple of small bugs have already been discovered since the release, so a 3.1.3 is likely.
2. Development Planning
Image Metadata API Revisited
Discussion continued on VUFIND-1140.
Breaking Up Templates
Channels
#693 is very close to being ready for merging. Please test, and comment on whether the Channels name or general UI can be improved.
Modularization
Next ZF Version
Demian is in the midst of configuring the last server at VU that is holding up the PHP version bump. There may be a brief disruption of vufind.org when this cuts over. More news soon.
Improved Use of Permissions
Solr 6
Please test #869.
Deprecation Progress
#883 removes BeanShell scripts and improves Java code organization. Demian plans to merge after documenting best practices.
Other Front End Updates
New Theme?
3. VuFind Usage Survey
Chris showed a preview of a VuFind usage survey.
4. Institutional Home
5. Other Topics?
Next Call
The next call will be Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 9am Eastern Standard Time (14:00 GMT).