Samvera Tech Call 2025-01-15

Meeting Logistics:

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
Zoom Meeting URL: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Agenda (meeting notes below)

Setup for next sprint cycle 01-21
- This is the project board we’ll work from, please add any issues you are working on or let Nick Homenda know
@dmoles asked about Bulkrax 9 Valkyrie support, specifically around the ValkyrieObjectFactory and creating FileSets—@Bradley Watson reports that currently they can only be created indirectly via Works. David will look into the code again and ask some more specific questions on Slack
Samvera help
- Sneha Gundurao (UCSC), admin role issue - Admin user cannot view works or admin dashboard items, but unauthenticated user can view works
Open PR’s
- https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/6984 Needs requested changes reviewed?
- https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/6987
- Test suite not green for last couple of PRs/merges, but seems flaky/indeterminate

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Chris Colvard

Attendees:

@Nicholas Mark Homenda
@Heather Greer Klein
@Daniel Pierce
@Bradley Watson
@dmoles
@Christine Peterson

Meeting Process

Standing pre-agenda items (moderator)
1. Welcome
  - "Welcome everyone, please add your name to the Attendees list. If you are unable to do so, please let us know, and someone will add you. To any newcomers, Welcome, and please feel free to ask questions. Likewise for all attendees. We strive for an open and accessible conversation around Samvera technology."
2. Call for new agenda items
Follow Agenda from above (facilitated by moderator) and record notes in Notes section below (note taker)
Standing post-agenda items (moderator)
1. call for next moderator and note taker (moderator)
  1. Moderator:
  2. Notetaker:
2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)
3. Pull request review (moderator)
  1. Recent Samvera PR list
Post-meeting action (note taker)
1. After call, this week's notetaker should create the agenda for the next call:
  1. Open template agenda titled "Samvera Tech Call XXXX-XX-XX"
  2. Click on ... in the top right corner, and select copy.
  3. Popup will open for location. It should contain:
    1. Space: Samvera
    2. Parent page: 2024
  4. Select copy. New page should be created.
  5. Modify the title to remove "copy of", update it with the next date, add moderator, notetaker, and any carry-over agenda info. Click Publish.

Notes

Upcoming Hyrax sprint cycle
1. Starts on Tuesday the 21st
2. The project board
  1. Ask Heather if you need access to it
3. Will be announced in slack channels
4. What will be getting worked on?
  1. Is there space for non-developers to be helpful this cycle?
  2. Yes, will definitely need help QA testing when Rails upgrade PR gets merged and other accessibility fixes
Bulkrax 9
1. valkyrie support?
  1. somethings seem not to be fully implemented yet specifically ValkyrieObjectFactory and creating FileSets
2. Can’t create file set directly
3. Brad says file sets have to be created through a work
4. David from UCSB looking at upgrading from Hyrax 5.0.1 + Bulkrax 7
5. David will take questions to slack
Outreach and Engagement WG
1. Next meeting: 2/19/2025 2025-02-19 Outreach & Engagement agenda and notes
2. Looking at redoing hyrax.samvera.org
3. Will use new static website template (contentful/next.js/github pages) that Avalon and Hyku are using now
4. Will need to update a lot of content: language and organization
5. Anyone is happy to join discussion. Will probably spawn new working group.
Requests for help
1. Sneha Gundurao (UCSC) - admin role issue - Admin user cannot view works or admin dashboard items, but unauthenticated user can view works
  1. Randall is trying to help
  2. Does anyone else have any ideas?
  3. UCSC has joined surfliner team so David might be able to help at next surfliner meeting
  4. Daniel - workflows not loading?
  5. Possibly could be workflow issue
  6. On old version of Hyrax so odd that it is happening all of a sudden
2. Chris Bartos - issue with file sets not getting updated in UV when changed (Hyrax 3.6)
  1. Riiif caching issue should have been fixed in 3.5 (See https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/2910 )
  2. Caching issue: browser? manifest? riiif?
Pull Requests
1. Test suite not green for last couple of PRs/merges, but seems flaky/indeterminate
  1. Should these failing tests hold up PRs or can PRs still get merged even with flaky failing tests?
  2. https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/6984 Needs requested changes reviewed?
  3. https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/6987
Next meeting
1. Moderator: @Randall Floyd
2. Notetaker: @Bradley Watson