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developers_call:minutes20190326

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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: March 26, 2019

Attending: Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Lionel Walter

Agenda

1. Development Updates

JIRA Tickets

  • VUFIND-1327 - This ticket proposes creating a new configuration option for recommendation modules to embed recommendations inside the search result set after the nth result. Some other discovery systems offer this functionality, and it might be a useful addition; Demian has no immediate plans to spend time implementing this but opened the ticket to collect votes/feedback.

Pull Requests

  • #1342 - merged - More consistent support for fallback-loading in the record loader.
  • #1343, #1345 - in progress - Fixes to the account AJAX functionality introduced in release 5.1.
  • #1344 - merged - Improvements to the Demo ILS driver to allow better testing of renewals and multiple library cards.
  • #1346 - merged - Sierra ILS driver improvement.
  • #1347 - in progress - New setting to disable “home library” controls in user profile.
  • #1348 - in progress - Proposal to display AND in applied filter list for consistency with OR/NOT.
  • #1349 - in progress - Modernization of date handling in SolrMarc custom Java code.
  • #1350 - merged - Work to resolve discrepancies in OAI-PMH server date handling (not everything was properly converted to UTC).
  • #1351 - merged - SQLite JDBC jar upgrade.
  • #1352 - merged - Example XSLT for processing multiple OJS records in a single pass.
  • #1353 - merged - KohaILSDI ILS driver improvement.
  • #1354 - in progress - Email address validation functionality.
  • #1355 - merged - PAIA ILS driver improvements.
  • #1356 - in progress - OAI-PMH server performance optimizations.
  • #1357 - in progress - Minor Javascript bug fixes.

2. Development Planning

Development Planning

Browse Handler Optimizations

Further work on the handler is still on Tod's to-do list. Demian has just upgraded the JDBC SQLite .jar file in master in response to a bug report specific to the older version that was previously there.

Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)

No news.

6.0 Roadmapping

3. Next Call Date

Demian proposed skipping the next scheduled call (April 9) due to a conflict with the CNI conference.

4. Other Topics?

Next Call

The next call will be Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 9am Eastern Daylight Time (13:00 GMT).

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