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Hyrax 4.0 Release Planning
We are not ready for 4.0
Previously, community maintained 3.x and maintaining 2.x
Now with Valkyrie, 4.x releases need to be supported along with the ActiveFedora Hyrax for 3.x
Will 4.0 need to come sooner with Rails 6/Blacklight upgrades? These would introduce breaking changes
Valkyrie may need to, then, become a later release
If this is the case, Rails 6/Blacklight would need to be a higher priority
Perhaps this can be prioritized for the Dev Congress?
Currently, this work is ongoing, but we do not know where the community will arrive during May
Do we have a sense of what proportion of the community are still on 2.x, and what their path to upgrade is looking like?
At a minimum, Hyku may still lock adopters to 2.x releases
Max is aware of implementations which currently use 2.x releases
How can Samvera support smaller or less-resources institutions in upgrading to a more recently-released, supported version?
When was 3.x released?
Approximately one year ago
During the past, 2.x releases were motivated by those institutions which required these updates for their own custom implementations
Might it be possible to propose a timeline for ending support for 2.x releases following the 4.0 release?
Do we have a set of standardized practices regarding the length of support for each major/minor release series?
We do not, but it is suspected that we implicitly promise that the test suite will continue to pass for 2.x release branches
James needs to ensure that CircleCI nightly test suites are running for main branches for samvera components and samvera-labs projects
With Valkyrized Hyrax, bugs and issues (which are also present in 3.x), should these be considered to be high priority issues for both?
Should we consider 3.x bugs and issues be high priority even with active releases for Valkyrized Hyrax?
Hyku was actively being upgraded from supporting Hyrax 2.x to Hyrax 3.x
Rails 7.0, Rails 6.1, Rails 6.0, Rails 5.2
Rails community has retained maintenance for Rails 5.2
Hyrax 2.x
No new commits from September 2021 onwards
Perhaps 4.0 will be the Rails upgrade and 5.0 shall be Valkyrized Hyrax?
Security updates will be needed still for 2.x
Rails and Ruby version timelines should be considered for security reasons
Resource Requests from the Community
May 7th is the next Partner Meeting
Partner Call is 11:30 EDT 2022-04-08, perhaps request the community resources needed to address the Rails/Blacklight upgrades
Checklist for Bootstrap and Blacklight upgrade items
It might be good to have this information accessible in preparation for the Partner Call (during which the resources would be requested)
Also, perhaps Daniel and Brad Watson (Emory) have some information regarding specific code changes which would need to be completed in order to support the upgrades
How can the resource request be prepared before the next Partner Call?
Next Samvera Call
Notetaker
James
Moderator
Thomas Scherz
Call concluded at 09:29 PDT/12:29 EDT