Samvera Tech Call 2022-04-06

Meeting Logistics:

• Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT

• Zoom Meeting URL: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/7739591625
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Agenda (meeting notes below)

• Scheduling Component Maintenance Interest Group Meetings (@James Griffin)

  • Component Maintenance Interest Group

  • Proposal to schedule weekly meetings for every Thursday at 09:00 PDT/12:00 EDT

• ActiveTriples Maintenance (@James Griffin)

  • https://github.com/ActiveTriples/ActiveTriples

  • https://github.com/samvera-labs/ActiveTriples

  • current codebase for ActiveTriples on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/no_reply/ActiveTriples

  • (James has received feedback on the Samvera Slack #devs Channel, and it might be best to postpone this discussion for another Tech Call when other parties are available)

• ruby-oai Maintenance and Support (@James Griffin)

  • https://github.com/samvera/maintenance/issues/90

• Call for devs - Rails 6, Blacklight 7, Bootstrap 4 dependencies for Hyrax (@Juliet Hardesty)

  • bootstrap 4 upgrade dev congress issues

  • Github branch: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/tree/bl7bootstrap4

Moderator: @Chris Colvard

Notetaker: @James Griffin

Attendees:

• @Juliet Hardesty (Indiana University)

• @Max Kadel (UNC Chapel Hill)

• @Heather Greer Klein (Samvera Community)

• @tamsin johnson (UC Santa Barbara)

• @Anna Headley (Princeton University Library)

Meeting Process

Notes

• Scheduling Component Maintenance Interest Group meetings

  • Want to set regular meetings with an understanding of limited availability. Want to propose Thursday meeting 9am PT/12pm ET, 30 min

  • Open office hour format for those who have questions, issues related to Samvera Components, PR requests and reviews, creating new issues

  • Modeled like the tech call

• ActiveTriples – James will look into this with tamsin

• Ruby OAI maintenance

  • Proposed topic for the above Thursday meeting; will talk about the maintenance required

  • One issue to pay attention to is this is not an Apache licensed library, it is CC0. Would that be a problem for moving into samvera-labs?

  • https://github.com/code4lib/ruby-oai/network/dependents

  • Surfliner is using this.

  • Might be worth the effort to address issues where the gem already lives

• Rails 6, Blacklight 7, Bootstrap 4 dependencies for Hyrax

  • Sent message to the mailing list

  • There is a need to update Blacklight to release 7 and Bootstrap to release 4 before Hyrax can support these upstream changes

    • There exists a branch tracking this work

    • For context - the active bootstrap 4 & blacklight 7 comparison - https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/compare/main...bl7bootstrap4

    • J. Rochkind reported that Bootstrap 4 is nearly EOL

      • Should Bootstrap 5 be a viable target instead?

    • The sense is that Bootstrap 5 is indeed viable for an update

      • There isn’t too heavy a degree of integration to warrant staying only on 4

    • Bootstrap and the Blacklight updates are tightly coupled

    • Bootstrap 8 has not yet been released, but Chris has been evaluating this process for Avalon

    • Here's an example of of a release that references supporting both 4 and 5: https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/releases/tag/v7.22.0

  • Hyrax Maintenance WG has rebased from main, and hopefully the work which remains is to address these upgrades for another sprint cycle

  • Next Samvera Developer Congress (05/16/22 - 05/20/22)

    • Is it possible to have more work accomplished before the next Dev Congress?

    • It would be preferred, but there is nothing currently explicitly scheduled

  • What is the best way for current, non-WG members to assist with this?

    • There are obstacles for iCLA and cCLAs for contributors

    • This is going to be discussed during the next Partners Call

• Next Scheduled Tech Call

  • Moderator: Tamsin

  • Notetaker: James

Tech Call Concluded at 09:30 PDT/12:30 EDT