Agenda: Wrap-up for Developer Congress January 23-27, 2023

Owned by Heather Greer Klein
Last updated: Jan 27, 2023 by Juliet Hardesty

DATE AND TIME

Required roles: Host, note-taker 

  • Host will use the list of topics in the wiki to call on each facilitator. Facilitators should summarize:
    • The focus of the group
    • What the group accomplished
    • Whether there are next steps or follow-up steps and how those have been captured
  • Host will lead a retrospective
    • proposed format: plus/delta
    • Give 3 minutes at the beginning to allow people to take notes on what they want to say
    • Host invites people to "raise hand" to contribute to the retro
    • Participants can speak to both categories at once to reduce the time spent calling on people.
    • Ensure the notes are open so people can add things late

Notes:

  • Hyrax on Ruby 3.0+
    • no direct Hyrax work for this yet, centered on core components instead
  • Hyrax Valkyrization
    • stuck on cleaning up old PR; still using Wings and there are multiple ways to convert from Objects, a new conversion method to replace HyraPCDM seems to not be complete so that is where this work is
    • Daniel will continue work on this and will reach out to tamsin and write up issue about what is happening
    • Alex has open PR still to upgrade to Valkyrie 3 because of CircleCI issue; Valkyrie has shared specs that are run by Hyrax but that shared spec uses a utility that isn't on CircleCI used by Hyrax; might need to discuss with Trey but might also be able to add in new system dependencies, not sure; orb could be updated if that is needed
    • Daniel prefers to have spec running so hopefully this utility can be added
    • Video recording of how to determine status of Hyrax Valkyrization using testing spreadsheet and project board - https://demo.avalonmediasystem.org/media_objects/76537164j
  • Review and test old Hyrax tickets
    • reviewed 283 tickets of ~450 in backlog
    • several seem to be closable (yay!)
  • Review/finalize Hyrax Maintenance Policy
    • PR to add policy to GitHub repo as md doc - will live in documentation directory
  • Core Components on Ruby 3.1 and Rails 7.0
    • all repos have ability to move forward with this update (have PRs ready to merge or have been merged)
    • AF release in progress and needed for other gems to be updated, but that is the only blocker for other core components
    • AF is only gem release so far
    • still more releases to do
  • Identify and fix flaky tests in hyrax
    • first flaky test resolved
    • issues created for other flaky tests and those are not completed
    • maintenance policy PR getting stuck might be a new flaky test that also needs to be resolved - https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/5950


Retro:

Liked

  • good ratio of testers to developers and there was clear work for everyone to plug into
  • Topic suggestion still seems to work well

Lacked

  • still issues with M1 Mac and Docker for certain Sidekiq jobs (attaching Filesets, for example)

Learned

  • able to build and run Hyrax 3.5.0 release locally for testing Hyrax backlog issues

Longed for

  • wish we could work on example topic of AF and Fedora 5 (so we could move toward F6!)
  • didn't quite have the folks needed to get across the Hyrax-Valk MVP finish line

Plus/Delta

  • aiming to do more dev congresses more regularly
  • new project board was something worth trying again, good that it is at the Samvera level (organization level)