2025-01-24 Hyrax Fedora 6 Working Group

 Date

Jan 24, 2025@9am Eastern

 Participants

• @Arran Griffith

• @Ben Pennell

  @Bradley Watson

• @Collin Brittle

• @Dan Field

• @Daniel Pierce

• @Emily Porter

• @Heather Greer Klein

• @Jon Dunn

• @Juliet Hardesty

• @Kate Dohe

• @Nicholas Mark Homenda

• @Scott Prater

• @Randall Floyd

• @Rebekah Kati

• @Tom Wrobel

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 Discussion topics

Notes 

Nick Homenda, new Hyrax Product Owner, joins.

Randall Floyd is the new acting Tech Lead for Hyrax

Updates:

• General updates

  • Fedora 6.5.1 Released

    • Changes to OCFL Java, mainly performance improvements from S3 and bug fixes

    • Upgraded migration utilities

    • Few hanging PR’s that may constitute one more point release before Fedora Tech Team turns its attention to dependency updates

    • Emory is aiming to upgrade to 6.5.1 soon

    • Focus is now major dependency upgrades, probably about 12 months work

  • Status of Nurax Testing instance for Performance Work?

    • Performance Testing

    • Emory can do tests that are marked in the “Emory” column of the spreadsheet

    • Can we use the same filesets across the testing environments for consistency?

      • This is desirable, but we need to determine a strategy as some of the data used to test internally are not suitable for a public site

      • Group can discuss what representative files would be at a future meeting

    • Need to seed filesets and other works on Nurax so that performance testing is possible. Consider cost concerns with hosting large collections, filesets etc.

    • Arran proposes creating a community version of the performance testing spreadsheet, while keeping a version internal for Hyrax-Fedora 6 Working Group

  • Hyrax and Fedora 6 update

    • We have full Fedora 6 support through the Valkyrie adapter with all tests passing

    • Holding the release back to ramp up our dependency support to Ruby 3.3 and Rails 7.2

      • Chris Colvard and Randall Floyd spent several sprints last year on that, and Daniel and Randall are halfway through a sprint right now that just saw the test suite turn to all green

      • We have several QA people in the sprint who will be doing their scripted testing on that

    • We need to test official 6.5.1 (Docker environment currently using 6.5.1-RC3)

What work remains?

• Hyrax release

  • Contingent on QA testing. Testing needs to be done on activefedora, postgres and fedora 6

  • Hyrax Maintenance sprint runs through next Friday (Jan 31)

• Deploy a Nurax instance with Hyrax on Fedora 6

  • Waiting on dependency upgrades to be finished

  • Official release is not a blocker. Probably next item after Ruby/Rails gets finished.

  • Daniel will set up

Updating the Charter

• New deliverables with updated time frames?

  • Original timeframe was end of 2024

  • Arran will update date and release a summary of activity and revised timeline to Fedora and Samvera communities