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Samvera Tech Call 2025-06-04

Samvera Tech Call 2025-06-04

Meeting Logistics:

Agenda (meeting notes below)

  • Hyrax

    • Nothing significant to report from last call; next sprint will do a release bump to include Rails 6.1 support

    • Pesky superclass mismatch issue in Riiif initializer in apps

      • Typically happens in local dev mode any time you change something while running a test app

      • Happens for @Bradley Watson just trying to access homepage after upgrading app from 5.0.4 to a recent commit level

    • Github settings around -release branches and 5.0.5 release proposal

  • Hyku

    • working on Flexible metadata release

    • fundraising to get Rails/Hyrax upgrade going we can keep up with main

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Daniel Pierce

Attendees:

  • @Rob Kaufman

  • @Chris Colvard

  • @Tracy McCormick



Meeting Process

  1. 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

  2. Follow Agenda from above (facilitated by moderator) and record notes in Notes section below (note taker)

  3. Standing post-agenda items (moderator)

    1. call for next moderator and note taker (moderator)

      1. Moderator: @Randall Floyd

      2. Notetaker: @Chris Colvard

    2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)

    3. Pull request review (moderator)

      1. Recent Samvera PR list

  4. 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: (Verify value is current year)

      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

  1. Rob:

    1. Wanting a Hyrax 5.0 release with some backported fixes.

    2. Made some x.x-stable branches, doing some circle ci related changes to those branch rules.

  2. Daniel: Publishing gems form actions?

    1. Seems like a good idea, instructions are available

  3. Rob: Fundraising for hyku

    1. Goal is to get hyku back on hyrax main. May be a 2 part process with recent rails 6.1 support in hyrax?

    2. Randall: Should try to push how Hyku has become the example implementation for many hyrax features.

  4. Flexible metadata

    1. Working to get this back into hyrax over the summer.

    2. Randall: Are additional hands helpful?

    3. Process:

      1. Now its implemented as as all or nothing. First step is to move conditional features scattered in the flexible code.

      2. Layer in model level includes of flex meta code. Gets around all or nothing

      3. Bring in all the other pieces that are needed to make it work.

      4. Will

  5. Rob: Chris, How are Rails 8 upgrades going for Avalon?

    1. So far so good, a few issues to go.

    2. Blacklight 7 release with Rails 8 support is available now.

    3. Major gobstopper layers have been updated, might be a few other gems to go.

  6. Will take a look at riiif superclass mismatch issue during next hyrax sprint.

    1. First instance in Slack was Randall saying it was spring watcher

    2. Mismatch can happen when a module name is duplicated.