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» Submitted by summerbrid on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 2:24am

The calls started coming last week, when electronic rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation publicized a list of entities who have applied to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to

Meeting Notes for 5/7/2010

» Submitted by jblyberg on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 10:21am

Meeting Agenda:

1. Catch up - Where are we, what are we working on, etc?
2. What more needs to be done for a 2.1 final release?
3. Discuss Sid's 4/17 email regarding ILS variations/capabilities
4. First pass at building a 2.2 feature list & roadmap
5. ALA plans?
6. Other business?

Present
John Blyberg
Ryan Eby
Eric Klooster
Jef Godin
Rich Dworianyn
Sid Maskit
Alex Bronstein
Joseph Muennich

Links:
http://directcommunities.drupalgardens.com/media-gallery/detail/46/187
http://kids.demo.sailsinc.craftyspace.com
http://drupal.org/project/purl
http://drupal.org/project/context
http://drupal.org/project/spaces
http://www.darienlibrary.org/kids/booklists
http://www.darienlibrary.org/2010/04/29/animal-adventures
http://drupal.org/project/content_profile
http://drupal.org/project/flexifield
http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr
http://drupal.org/project/sphinx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
http://drupal.org/project/ils

Agenda 1 & 2: Catch up

Darien Library:

Checkout history
Code clean-up
Final touches on SOPAC 2.1

[5/7/10 3:21:20 PM] ryan eby: concerns with deletion in ils of history
[5/7/10 3:37:13 PM] Alex Bronstein: decision: checkout history should be harvested and live in insurge. sopac features like "recommendation engine" use the data in insurge. harvesting decisions like whether to delete from ILS after a harvest can be ILS-specific and handled in the connector
[5/7/10 3:38:01 PM] Joseph Muennich: http://demo.sailsinc.craftyspace.com
[5/7/10 3:39:57 PM] Alex Bronstein: decision: checkout history should be harvested and live in insurge. sopac features like "recommendation engine" use the data in insurge. harvesting decisions like whether to delete from ILS after a harvest can be ILS-specific and handled in the connector

Craftyspace

[5/7/10 3:39:59 PM] ryan eby: more drupalized
[5/7/10 3:40:15 PM] ryan eby: security and log off / reauthentication
[5/7/10 3:41:23 PM] Alex Bronstein: using views 3 alpha to integrate sopac searches into cool things available with views, like views_carousel.
[5/7/10 3:43:47 PM] Alex Bronstein: a very rough start on code to automate migration of ILS user records to Drupal user records
[5/7/10 3:44:35 PM] Sid Maskit: ongoing conversation: what should recommendation engine do, what data is needed, etc.
[5/7/10 3:46:13 PM] Alex Bronstein: some consortium oriented features: using subdomains to customize the site by member library. will use something like hook_form_alter() to pre-select search options based on member library subdomain.
[5/7/10 3:47:46 PM] Joseph Muennich: http://kids.demo.sailsinc.craftyspace.com
http://embed.demo.sailsinc.craftyspace.com
http://bcc.demo.sailsinc.craftyspace.com
[5/7/10 3:49:58 PM] Alex Bronstein: Our in-progress implementation of switching based on subdomain is some custom code, but http://drupal.org/project/purl and http://drupal.org/project/context are really awesome generic building blocks
[5/7/10 3:50:22 PM] Jeff Godin: alex: was the third module "spaces"?
[5/7/10 3:50:31 PM] Alex Bronstein: http://drupal.org/project/spaces
[5/7/10 3:55:06 PM] John Blyberg: http://www.darienlibrary.org/kids/booklists
[5/7/10 3:55:17 PM] John Blyberg: http://www.darienlibrary.org/2010/04/29/animal-adventures
[5/7/10 3:55:20 PM] ryan eby: http://drupal.org/project/content_profile
[5/7/10 3:59:32 PM] Alex Bronstein: Darien using CCK 3 Multigroup to create a node representing a list, where the node consists of multi-valued group, each group contains "bib number" and other relevant fields.
[5/7/10 4:00:51 PM] Alex Bronstein: Shameless plug: I'm the maintainer of http://drupal.org/project/flexifield, which is an alternative to CCK Multigroup (for anyone not wanting to use CCK 3).
[5/7/10 4:03:15 PM] Eric J. Klooster: "Drupal" izing the code was one of the things I wanted to talk about
[5/7/10 4:11:25 PM] John Blyberg: Alex gives a synopsis of Drupal 7, major game changer applicable to SOPAC is the entity system
[5/7/10 4:11:25 PM] Eric J. Klooster: Lots of cool new features in D7, how much to we want to leverage in SOPAC going forward
[5/7/10 4:11:53 PM] ryan eby: yeah is portability still a goal
[5/7/10 4:15:19 PM] John Blyberg: RDF module for cross-site aggregation
[5/7/10 4:19:40 PM] Jeff Godin: discussing SOLR vs Sphinx, pluggable search for SOPAC to pick one or the other
[5/7/10 4:20:31 PM] ryan eby: http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr
[5/7/10 4:20:48 PM] ryan eby: http://drupal.org/project/sphinx

AADL

[5/7/10 4:29:27 PM] Alex Bronstein: AADL doing some more drupalizing (e.g., using l() for link generation)
[5/7/10 4:30:24 PM] John Blyberg: AADL expanding insurge data structured to include things like content type, etc
[5/7/10 4:32:46 PM] Alex Bronstein: Exploring Sphinx configuration for more fine grained control
[5/7/10 4:33:26 PM] Eric J. Klooster: Using CouchDB for schema-less storage of bib records
[5/7/10 4:33:43 PM] Alex Bronstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL ++
[5/7/10 4:34:02 PM] Jeff Godin: Adding more metadata to the schema-less bib storage, "bypassing" MARC
[5/7/10 4:35:27 PM] John Blyberg: AADL looking to get rid of facetizer() ++
[5/7/10 4:35:52 PM] Eric J. Klooster: Take control of the bib data away from closed ILS
[5/7/10 4:40:09 PM] Alex Bronstein: sphinx faceting possible with 0.9.8 !!
[5/7/10 4:42:13 PM] Alex Bronstein: Advanced sphinx stuff needs 0.9.10
[5/7/10 4:43:12 PM] Jeff Godin: More browse interfaces, starting with faceting instead of search-then-facet. Example BISAC, music collections...
[5/7/10 4:43:54 PM] Jeff Godin: AADL continuing work on machine tagging
[5/7/10 4:44:35 PM] John Blyberg: follow up w/ eby and sid about booklists
[5/7/10 4:46:49 PM] Alex Bronstein: john/sid follow-up to code review sopac/locum trunk prior to rolling out 2.1 final.
[5/7/10 4:46:53 PM] John Blyberg: follow up w/ sid about multi branch elements

Agenda 3: ILS Variations

[5/7/10 4:50:36 PM] ryan eby: feature list, ils pulldown, manage available features
[5/7/10 4:50:48 PM] John Blyberg: sid talking about ils variations and how to handle them in SOPAC
[5/7/10 4:51:47 PM] Alex Bronstein: some UI features only work with some ILSes (for example, suspend dates for holds possible on Sirsi, not on III)
[5/7/10 4:55:06 PM] Alex Bronstein: John suggesting that the connector be aware of what features it supports. SOPAC can query that.
[5/7/10 5:03:46 PM] Alex Bronstein: Some discussion about what is the role of a function in the connector (e.g., getCapabilities()) to report information about its supported features, vs. what is the role of an INI file to have information related to that.
[5/7/10 5:04:59 PM] ryan eby: (d) <-- (JB: at this point, Ryan prepares himself a cocktail)
[5/7/10 5:08:22 PM] Alex Bronstein: http://drupal.org/project/ils
[5/7/10 5:09:00 PM] John Blyberg: Alex announced project/ils on drupal as an available namespace for D7
[5/7/10 5:09:35 PM] Jeff Godin: Alex module-name-squatting.
[5/7/10 5:10:14 PM] John Blyberg: Alex's drupal7-fu is strong

It was agreed that we will revisit the 2.2 roadmap on our 5/28/2010 conference call.

Nobody except John Blyberg is going to ALA, so no plans.

No further business for today.

3/20/2009 - Dev Group Meeting Notes

» Submitted by smaskit on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 1:31pm

Notes from the 3/20/2009 conference call attended by John, Ryan, Eric, and Sid.

bug reports

» Submitted by smaskit on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 4:38pm

I am creating this topic since I suspect there will probably be a fair number of bugs found which are small enough not to justify their own topic. Thus this is a place to report straightforward bugs which one believes won't require discussion.

Overridable Theming Functions

» Submitted by smaskit on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 5:15pm

In the code, I have noticed a somewhat problematic use of theming functions. Although it is not the only place where this occurs, here's the instance which caught my eye.

The file sopac.module contains the theme_sopac_search_handler function. The comment for this function indicates, "It very well may be that this function needs to be overridden due to themeing considerations, so it takes advantage of Drupal's hook_theme and may be defined in template.php."

However, the theme_sopac_search_handler function is invoked in a way which does not work with overriding. In the sopac_menu function, the search_handler item includes the following:

'page callback' => 'theme_sopac_search_handler,

This call will always call the theme_sopac_search_handler function, bypassing any attempts to override it. To enable overriding, the menu declaration should instead include this:

'page callback' => 'theme',
'page arguments' => array('sopac_search_handler'),

This will result in a call to theme('sopac_search_handler'), and that will call either theme_sopac_search_handler or the overriding function with the highest priority.

As a final note, I would suggest that it is preferable to avoid naming a function with the theme prefix unless one is going to use the theme function to invoke it. I suggest this because using the theme prefix implies that the function can be overridden, but invoking it by means other than the theme function prevents overriding from working.

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