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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: June 19, 2018

Attending: Leila Gonzales, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Kristof Kessler, Ere Maijala, SUB Hamburg Team

Agenda

1. Development Updates

JIRA Tickets

  • VUFIND-1287 - Bug report related to the Author module not handling facets properly; fixed in release 4.1.3.
  • VUFIND-1288 - Discussion of a possible workaround for the “changing/expiring Summon record IDs” problem.

Pull Requests

  • #1192 - merged - Translation updates
  • #1193 - merged - Piwik behavior improvements for dynamic record loading
  • #1194 - merged - Facet-related improvements/fixes
  • #1195 - merged - Updates to eslint Javascript style checking
  • #1196, #1203, #1204 - merged - Improved handling of ILS failure
  • #1197 - in progress - Object-oriented refactoring of item status handling code
  • #1198 - merged - More flexible loading of facet configuration
  • #1199 - merged - Better error reporting in library card functionality
  • #1200 - merged - Support for encrypted session data
  • #1201 - merged - Bug fix to AJAX handlers
  • #1202 - merged - Avoid duplicate theme initialization
  • #1205 - in progress - New ILS feature to display last pickup date for available holds (with SierraRest support only, at present)
  • #1206 - merged - Improvements to the EDS code (better style/naming/organization)
  • #1207 - merged - Minor code style fix
  • #1208 - merged - Improvements to EZProxy ticket authentication

Release 4.1.3

The release went out on time, in spite of some difficulties related to a zend-servicemanager bug.

2. Development Planning

5.0 Roadmap Progress

The code freeze on master is now in effect, apart from bug fixes and outstanding work on Alma/FOLIO ILS drivers. Demian will create a release-5.0 branch if there is a need to merge new features to master after this week.

Front End Updates

Browser Support Policy?

ILS Support Updates

Browse Handler Optimizations

Piwik, the lightbox, and tabs/accordion functionality

3. Institutional Home

No news, though discussions are ongoing.

4. VuFind Summit 2018

A call for presentations and registration link are being prepared.

5. Other Topics?

Next Call

The next call will be Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 9am Eastern Daylight Time (13:00 GMT).

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