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

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)