Notes: Wrap-up / Retro for Developer Congress November 29th - December 3rd, 2021

GitHub Project

 

Group Updates

  • Hyrax-Valkyrization Testing

    • James will look to request updates for this topic

  • Hyrax-Valkyrization Coding

  • Samvera Introductory Tech. Documentation Refinement

    • Any reviews needed?

    • For Hyrax, there will be collaboration for this topic

    • Tech. Call review will be requested

  • Rails 6 Support

      • This just supports Rails 6.0, not 6.1

    • browse-everything#372

    • Chris: Testing Hyrax testing on Rails 6

      • Exploring the Ruby Gem dependencies

        • Blocked by sass-rails, and there was a pin for the version

        • Rails 6 build also has some failures for generating the engine_cart internal test app

  • Hyrax Container and Helm Chart Publishing

    • Action Items

      • Forthcoming pull request against Hyrax providing documentation for CircleCI nightly publishing of Docker container images and Helm charts

  • Hyrax Onboarding

    • Successful for all participants!

    • There was one Mac issue which was encountered, and this is being actively explored

      • Container versions for ARM architecture need to still be supported, but this should be reasonable to accomplish soon following this Congress

 

Retro (Plus / Delta)

Plus

Delta

Plus

Delta

  • Communication (daily meetings, Zooms open on Slack, letting meetings be open)

  • Zoom links and scheduling details for the topics list

  • Willingness for topic proposers and facilitators

  • Visual Studio Code was excellent as a reference, but strictly preferred

    • Using other text editors did not seem to block any progress



  • Structure some form of a calendar (perhaps some sort of Confluence table?)

  • Advanced planning for the Hyrax-Valkyrization efforts should have been available

 

Questions

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