2020-09-01 Meeting notes

Date

01 Sep 2020

Attendees

• Nabeela Jaffer

• jen young
• Jon Cameron
• David Wilcox
• Kate Lynch
• James Griffin

Goals

Discussion items

Notes

• Fedora 6 beta testing
  • What is the situation, and how can RC help?
  • Overview of where Fedora 6 is, the types of tests available, and where the Samvera Community can get involved.
  • Fedora 6.x status and test plans (David Wilcoxwill share the slides)
    • Hoping to get to a full release early next year, if testing goes well
    • Need verification from Valkyrie stakeholders 
      • Esmé did some testing with Fedora and Valkyrie, and for the most part it worked.  Indirect/direct container support needs to be added to conform to the LD spec.  This is currently being worked on in an active sprint.
      • Anyone who is a stakeholder regarding Valkyrie who has time to test would be valuable
    • Types of tests:
      • Functional, migration, performance and scale tests
      • Fedora API test suite (link in slides)
      • Does Fedora 6.x work with Samvera apps?  What more needs to be done to ensure compatibility?
      • Fedora 4 API has some changes between 4 and 5.  The API has not much changed between version 5 and 6, so if your application uses v. 5, you should be fine.  However, Fedora versioning has changed a bit between 5 and 6, so some adjustments to your application may be needed.
      • We have some testing utilities for Fedora, and it would be good to know if these will work for existing Samvera applications, support migrations, etc.
      • Migration utilities:
        • Export process – the migration utility serializes all of your data out of Fedora, then you run the upgrade utility on the exported data to convert it to a format that conforms to the new index format, then point a fresh Fedora installation at the latest version to that updated index.
        • Results so far are fairly promising upgrading the Fedora 6 this way.
      • Performance/scale:
        • Bash scripts available for performance testing
        • JMeter scripts for scale tests
        • Confident that the manyMembers issues encountered in the Samvera Community have largely been addressed, but would like to do extensive testing with the Community on this.
        • What other scenarios need to be addressed?  What is missing?
        • The performance testing results so far are promising, either completely addressed or well-mitigated, but would like more feedback and testing.
        • Will be publishing results soon.
        • What does this look like in a complete Samvera application that uses Fedora?

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