Samvera Tech Call 2025-07-30

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
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Continuation of support conversation from Slack: Jamen McGranahan seeking guidance connecting Sirenia-based app to external F6 with existing data (via a non-samvera migration path?) @Randall Floyd
Bitnami helm charts changes

Moderator: @Daniel Pierce

Notetaker: @Randall Floyd

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Randall/Jamen: Using data originally from Islandora/Fedora 3 and migrated to Fedora 6 (using Fedora tooling?) in Hyrax?
1. Hyrax has its own metadata format and requirements, probably won’t understand the existing data.
2. It is possible to create a custom migration tool that can convert objects to Hyrax works.
3. Rob: Having tooling to help migrate applications stuck in Fedora 3 to current Hyrax would be useful to the community.
  1. Potential for community sprint around this?
Rob: Tests passing on hyrax flex metadata PR.
1. Fixed gnarly timing issue that might be cause of flaky specs on main
2. Based near attributes interfering with reform code that modifies *_attributes fields, affected by code loading order.
3. Skipping default behavior in based near module so that the desired behavior is the only option
4. Long term fix is to not use *_attributes for the field name in cases like these.
Solr 9 PR has fix for pcdm membership solr query
La Rita opened a PR to fix creating a work in a collection via its dashboard show page.
Bitnami’s container images will soon no longer be updated. Rob will post more about this in Slack.