Samvera Tech Call 2025-06-11

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
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Hyrax
- Currently in sprint, working towards 5.2
  - Rails 6.1 support, social flipper, some bug fixes
  - dev.nurax (Wings/F4) seems to have some problems, possibly around collection/collection types/admin sets
  - Some movement towards Solr 9 support

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Chris Colvard

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Hyrax sprint on-going now
1. Hyrax 5.2 release coming
  1. Rails 6.1 support re-added
  2. testing now
  3. Ran into issues on nurax due to bad data but should be resolved now
2. short sprint with many participants going to OR
Hyrax + Solr 9
1. Chris made a test PR but has failing tests
2. will return to it in 2 weeks
Avalon + Rails 8
1. So far so good
2. Might be able to continue using sprockets while working on modernizing asset pipeline
3. Will Hyrax be as lucky? Especially related to class loading
  1. Avalon worked through the class loading / zeitwerk issues in Rails 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 while Hyrax has deferred on these so far so unknown if rails 8 will force working through them
Hyku
1. 6.2RC
2. 6.1.1 release for bug fixes
Open PRs
Slack followups
Next meeting: 2025-06-17
1. Moderator: @Daniel Pierce
2. Notetaker: @Chris Colvard