2022-08-08 Meeting Notes and Agenda

Welcome and introductions

Welcome Alex! Welcome back Rob!

Review of group initiatives (listed below)

Proposal for Core Components changes (James)

Moved to next meeting.

GitHub Teams

• Better implementing Github Teams

• https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/1976664065 has notes on this

• Without CLAs, do we need teams?

  • It’s useful when managing tickets

  • Reviewing, merging PRs

• Current team membership is a bit wonky in the context of who’s working on stuff

• Teams specific to non-developer roles would be a way to drive home the point that there are technical parts of being in this community without writing Ruby code

Piloting interns and mentorship program (Rob)

• Rob can provide project management and day to day parts, but this could be jumping in by interns to help out

• Interns often have meaningful PRs by the end of the first week

• Rob would like to know what we could do to mesh these two worlds, what individual project work might be good for an intern

• Could we tie particular work to a ticket? And then put forward a mentor for the task?

• Annamarie has various metadata issues that might be great for an intern to work on

  • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/labels/metadata

Development Communication Plan

• Having a regular plan to ask for help when large dependency updates are coming

• Rails versions release fairly regularly and consistently

• Ruby as well, others that are relatively consistent

• Expect a twice a year effort?

• Not everything will be as large as this Rails/Blacklight change

• JS in Rails 7 may be the next big change

• Most dependencies will be standard to upgrade; some will be the large updates

• One way: wait until a release and then start the effort afterward

September Hyrax-Valkyrization Effort

• 2-week community sprint Sep 6th-16th.

• Julie and Daniel Pierce getting issues ready to make effective use of the available time.

• Getting this past the finish line is the focus—it’s holding up many things from moving forward in the community

• Is this part of the Hyrax 4 release?

  • Hyrax 4 is Rails 6 upgrade, not Valkyrized Hyrax

  • Hyrax 5 will be valkrie + Hyrax

• Working on breaking the issues

• Rob may have someone who may be able to provide hours for issue work

• Everyone welcome (not just devs)

• Rob: Advertise hard problems as part of the community sprint? Get people interested in challenge? How do we motivate people?

• We could use working group sprint time as well to do valkyrization work