Samvera Tech Call 2025-01-29

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
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Agenda (meeting notes below)

Current Hyrax maintenance sprint status
- Big Ruby/Rails support update merged
- QA testing still all good (tested PG and F6, still awaiting F4)

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Daniel Pierce

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Hyrax Ruby 3.3 and Rails 7.2 PR merged in
1. Testing continues, looking good so far.
2. Some flaky specs repeatedly coming up.
3. Should be on track for a release during this sprint.
4. Nurax didn’t deploy automatically, Daniel will check on it.
Hyrax docker compose build on Windows is not copying the entrypoint files.
Issue with gprc gem install on WSL on code4lib slack #devops channel
1. Out of memory error when compiling gem native extensions
Release announcement for Avalon 8 with Fedora 6 upcoming
1. Migration results in dense OCFL filesystem
  1. 8 hour copy time for 160GB OCFL
    1. Using tar pipe on same (nfs?) filesystem
  2. ~17M files on disk
  3. Fedora indexing at first boot failing, due to flat structure at the root?
    1. Trying to increase transaction timeout to workaround
pcdm missing properties related to preservation terms
1. maybe namespace declaration is missing?
2. occurred during Fedora 4 backend database upgrade
Interest from Benjamin Riesenberg in updating the hyrax data model documentation
PR 6990 for single use link.
1. Not seen on nurax, could be caused by middleware?
2. Any impact in accepting?
  1. Use of alert might be an issue?
David Walker asking if anyone has upgraded to Hyrax 4 with apache and passenger
1. No experience with this on the call

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