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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 - merged - 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

No major news – Demian is still focusing on pull requests.

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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