The Q1-2020 Fameflower Hotfix release was released May 1st. Anton announced it.
Let's discuss our experiences with it so far.
Historical circulation migration data is getting difficult. Across FOLIO versions, migrations have not worked. Getting history from Voyager is getting more difficult. Important to current and existing libraries.
A problem for historical open and closed loans data. Some libraries may decide to not transfer closed loans.
Difficult for migration and offline circulation!
Needed for reporting as well. Might be stored in a separate file.
No stories written for this.
How and when to suppress notices for migrated data? Saving tenant configuration util after migration seems to help. Or set to an invalid server.
ToDo: Discuss with PO team
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SAML integration
Tod
SAML integration at Chicago
Mod-login SMAL is not federation aware. No way to get automatic updates. No self registering.
How can configurations be preserved between instances.
Federation support is really needed.
Want to release SAML attributes for actions in FOLIO.
A particular identity can be automatically authorized to login.
mod-SAML isn't actively maintained. Will be very important over the coming year and more.
It would be an advantage to FOLIO to have active dev in this area.
Apache has modules for being a provider. NGINX has a 3rd party tool for this as well. Could FOLIO rely on these tools for SAML authentication and attribute release. Would eliminate the need to maintain the FOLIO SAML code.
FOLIO would need to be able to consume the data from both modules.
ToDo: Need several tickets for this in JIRA. Tod will create the ticket.
Need a PO for this.
Should also look at who owns the patron user loader.
Need to do a better job of circling back on architecture changes such as searching, data stores, etc.