Steering Committee 201901 Minutes

CORAL Steering Committee Meeting Minutes, January 8, 2018

Status of 3.0.1

• there are still a couple things that need testing but the majority of pull requests, especially the critical release are all in
• upward translations still need to get added in. Matthias will coordinate and will handle the French language translation. Yan has offered to help with Mandarin.
• there is a security issue - the admin folders have outdated htaccess files that are exposing configuration data -that needs to get in but this requires some coordination because it needs to go in just prior to release so the when the announcement goes out, the fix is in place

OLF Discussion

• Kristin Antelman sent an email to address questions but it really just reiterates what we already knew:
  • An Apache license is not a dealbreaker
  • The exit strategy is addressed
  • The fee/due structure is still unresolved
• Paul is going to Miami to meet with EBSCO to discuss Koha integration with FOLIO. He will keep us updated on the discussion.
• In regards to the exit strategy, we need to work in that we can withdraw if we cannot pay for the fees. We also need to be clear that the IP reverts back to the Steering Committee if we withdraw.
• Action Item: Steve will set up a poll so that the Committee can vote on OLF's offer
• Action Item: Based on the vote, Heather will draft a slightly revised version of the exit strategy working to incorporate our suggestions.

Roadmap

• It was suggested that once we set some priorities we let the community know and also gather feedback from the community to help guide development. This will be set up in the github wiki. Priorities include:
  • Steve and Heather are interested in updating the usage statistics module.There are two different but related open usage statistics projects - a FOLIO usage app and CCPlus which may leverage the FOLIO usage app - so we may want to see where those go before reinventing the wheel. An early version of the usage app should be released in the next week or so.
  • Action Item: Eric will update the Committee when the usage app is available.
  • Tommy would like to consolidate the seven databases into a single database. In addition to making development work easier it would also help with automated testing, another bit of development he'd like to work on. It was also suggested that we switch the whole system database from MyISAM to InnoDB.
  • Steve would like to create functionality to support batch updating and deleting. This would be a lot easier if the databases were consolidate.
  • Steve would also like to be able to copy records. TAMU has already developed this functionality and will write up some documentation on it for the next meeting.
  • Action Item: Eric will share documentation on recent TAMU development work and will share it with the Committee. It will also be presented at the CORAL User Group Meeting at ER&L to try to gauge which parts of the functionality the community would be interested in.
  • Yan would like to split up the order request form between monographs and serials in order to capture different metadata that they use in their workflow.
  • Steve would like to see more integration with other ILS systems. Matthias is continuing to work on Koha integration - connecting acquisitions with CORAL in order to manage the budget between the two systems. At a minimum, we would like CORAL to be more integratable with other systems. It would also be nice to see integration with other KBs.