Samvera Tech Call 2025-08-06

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

Hyrax/Hyku documentation
- General call for developers to review resulting dev-oriented pages from ongoing documentation effort

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Daniel Pierce

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1. call for next moderator and note taker (moderator)
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  2. Notetaker: @Randall Floyd
2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)
3. Pull request review (moderator)
  1. Recent Samvera PR list
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Output of Doc Days of Summer needs some developer eyes to check things over. Next working day is Monday Aug 11.
Solr 9 Hyrax PR is merged.
Avalon is working on 8.1 release, RC is imminent. Infrastructure and dependency updates.
Anyone using the bot_challenge_page gem?
1. Sounds like no, but some interest. There has been some work to remove rack attack from it.
nginx has an “ultimate bot blocking“ plugin. Could be added to the hyrax helm chart.
Hyrax flex metadata PR needs some eyes. Randall will take a look.
1. Has some fixes for some inconsistent test failures.
Hyrax PR to combine ACL and Visibility Copy jobs to improve performance.
1. Also fixes potential timing issues when those run simultaneously. Rob: Ideal fix is to group jobs for a given request so they run within the same process in order.