Wrap-up Meeting for May 2022 Developer Congress

Date: May 20, 2022

Time: 12:00 PM PDT/03:00 PM EDT

Zoom URL: https://iu.zoom.us/j/88944228014?pwd=WGFBVktDU044blp5UVYxQ0xsU1NSZz09 

Session Updates

Hyrax Blacklight 7/Bootstrap Upgrades

• Participants
  • Julie Hardesty
  • Bradley Watson
  • Emily Porter
  • Clare Barton
  • Rebekah Kati
  • Daniel Pierce
  • Alex Zotov
  • Ayoub Belemlih
• Notes
  • Pull Requests are open for certain direct branches
    • Rails 6 branch itself
  • Rails 6
    • Ensuring that the build process goes more smoothly
    • Clarifying Class names in the application
    • Serious bug discovered for PostgreSQL
  • Bootstrap Upgrade
    • collection_spec failures are fully resolved!
  • QA/Testing Updates
    • Feature testing directly translated into CSS bugs
    • There were some which were resolved immediately
    • Labeled priority issues are still outlying
      • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/5654
    • Entire feature test on a local build is a lot more intensive than a deployed instance like nurax-dev
      • However, it was successfully achieved!
• Next Steps
  • Hyrax Maintenance WG is continuing the labor next week
    • This will incorporate the progress in the Rails 6 upgrade achievements
    • There may also be some additional UI labor which is available for further assistance with UI cleanup and styling
  • Release Management
    • Integrating the Rails 6 upgrade next week would then lead to release candidates or beta releases

Hyrax CircleCI Upgrade Updates

• Participants
  • Daniel Pierce
• Notes
  • Hyrax needed base images updated to the new CircleCI Docker Images (cimg)
  • This involved dropping support for EOL Ruby releases
    • Realistically, Hyrax should require 2.7 or later
• Next Steps
  • Supporting CircleCI and JavaScript tests are still outstanding
    • Docker Container for Karma can load the Jasmine JavaScript tests
    • The fixture files still need to be accessed
  • This will continue to be advanced next week

Samvera Maintenance Gem Management CLI

• Participants
  • James Griffin
• Notes
  • https://github.com/samvera/maintenance/tree/rubygems-thor-cli
• Next Steps
  • RuboCop
  • samvera-labs

Other Sessions

• Hyrax Batch Edit Review/Design-a-thon
  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1T4Jl0zf3lg69cntvIX2x_w5KBLY5pMi4jzsq874TBG8/edit?usp=sharing
  • taking this to Hyrax Interest Group/Samvera Community next for feedback
  • Julie Hardesty and Rebekah Kati
  • Wireframing work has been undertaken in the past, but this is far more advanced for this Congress

Retrospective

Proposal: Perhaps have this completed following the wrap-up meeting?

• Plus (Beneficial)
  • (To be completed following the Zoom Meeting)
  • James runs a smooth Dev Congress!
  • A lot of effort going into testing and addressing issues for BL7/Bootstrap4/Rails6 upgrade
  • Great event "templating" that lets everyone plug into different things while staying connected throughout the week
  • The ability to focus on a critical need was very useful (Blacklight/Bootstrap/Rails 6)
  • Good mix of participants with different skill sets
  • New docker-based/dassie local environment setup is really easy
• Delta (Detrimental)
  • For one week, we had too many topics to really dig into
  • Working through all the feature tests locally is very time consuming because there are many pre-requisite assets that need to be manually created. It would be great if we could "seed" those critical assets into dassie. 
  • Nurax-dev was having issues this week (important for comparison testing), and roles and responsibilities there are unclear