Samvera Tech Call 2025-05-21

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
Zoom Meeting URL: https://iu.zoom.us/j/87635137325?pwd=YhVGftEpANzAwgk84swAyF53edj31x.1
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Agenda (meeting notes below)

Hyrax
- Community sprint - more user facing/feature focused
- Investigating Hyrax to interpret WCAG 2.x requirements
- Looking to upgrade to Solr 9
Question: how do we determine key values for all languages we have locales for?
- For example, this issue on the project board https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/1386 ; it will replace a lot of strings with keys, so how do we backfill all the locales with those?
- And this one: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7070 needs a new key/value

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Bradley Watson

Attendees:

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2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)
3. Pull request review (moderator)
  1. Recent Samvera PR list
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@Mark Bussey: Upgraded v5.0.4 to Hyrax v5.1 and was surprised to find that he had to jump from Rails 6 to 7.
1. Can that be better documented or include compatibility for Rails 6?
2. Maybe it should have been a major release.
3. More consideration should be given to advise less seasoned Hyrax implementers of possible breaking changes and resolutions.
4. @Randall Floyd will own the expanding of the documentation on both versions.
Question: how do we determine key values for all languages we have locales for?
1. Previously, YAMLs were put through Google Translate tools and then passed to language experts for approval/remediation.
2. There may be more nuanced AI tools now available for future translations.
Next week’s Moderator: @Randall Floyd
Next week’s Notetaker: David Moles