Hyrax Interest Group Call 2021-10-13

Time: 11:30am-12:00pm Eastern

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Notetaker: Julie Hardesty

Community Notes

Attendees:

• Julie Hardesty (Indiana University)

• Collin Brittle (Emory University)

• Chris Colvard (Indiana University)

• Rebecca Pattillo (University of Louisville)

• Amanda Hurford (PALNI)

• Yuji Shinozaki (U.Va)

Agenda:

• Hyrax Maintenance Working Group update - Julie Hardesty

  • Current work cycle Project Board - https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/projects/23

• Topics and Projects

  • Hyrax on Wings

  • 2022 Samvera Technology Maintenance Hours Pledge Drive

  • Hyku News

• Questions?

• Reminders: Samvera Connect, October 18-22 and Samvera Developers Congress, November 8-12

• Next meeting: Wednesday, November 10, 11:30am Eastern

Notes:

• Hyrax Maintenance Working Group update - Julie Hardesty

  • Current work cycle Project Board - Hyrax Maintenance WG - July-December 2021 · samvera/hyrax

    • Work slowing down without Hyrax Tech Lead; 1 developer so issues still being worked on but slower pace; focusing on testing and documentation updates; also trying out asking for code contributions on issues where institutions have reported working on a fix locally - seeing how this works to incorporate a PR without a Tech Lead

    • 3 more sprints for this work cycle (July-December 2021)

• Topics and Projects

  • Hyrax on Wings (Valkyrie)

    • Issues being worked on for Val MVP (https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues , also using label “wings”)

    • Developing a deployable instance called nurax-pg on samvera-labs (GitHub - samvera-labs/nurax-pg: This is a Hyrax application configured to use Postgres for metadata storage instead of ActiveFedora. )

    • HMWG and others will test using Hyrax Release Test Script when instance is deployed and running (DCE is hosting this instance)

    • This work is to establish a Hyrax codebase that can fully function with a backend that is not using ActiveFedora and doesn’t rely on Fedora 4

    • There is a Fedora 6 adaptor: GitHub - samvera/valkyrie: A Data Mapper library to enable multiple backends for storage of files and metadata in Samvera

    • What nurax-pg will test is Hyrax running with Postgres but once that is working, it should be a one-line configuration change to test nurax-pg running with Fedora 6 (will also need a Fedora 6 instance to point to but we can discuss possibility with DCE)

    • Lynette Rayle and tamsin johnson are main folks doing this work now but definitely interested in help from others if that is possible

    • Hoping to have nurax-pg instance ready for testing soon (DCE is working on this deploy right now)

  • 2022 Samvera Technology Maintenance Hours Pledge Drive

    • Pledge hours are for any Samvera technology and not just Hyrax (Hyku, core components, Avalon)

    • Can specify if there is something of particular interest for working on with pledged hours

    • Hyrax work will incorporate pledged hours into planning

      • Sticking with sprint schedule (2 weeks on and 2 weeks off)

      • Not sure yet if this means there will be a call for HMWG members separate from pledge drive

    • Also looking for list of folks that can be consulted for code components (searching/indexing, admin dashboard, branding, faceting, etc) so there are options for code review/PR merging that can take some of the load off of a Hyrax Tech Lead person

      • Also not sure if there will be a Hyrax Tech Lead soon or not

  • Hyku News

    • Hyku 3.0.2 in the works

    • Still running on Hyrax 2.x (pretty sure)

    • Hyku 4.0 also in the works (likely to use Hyrax 3.0?)

• Questions?

• Reminders: Samvera Connect, October 18-22 and Samvera Developers Congress, November 8-12

• Next meeting: Wednesday, November 10, 11:30am Eastern