Samvera Tech Call 2025-11-05

Meeting Logistics:

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 update
- Currently in WG sprint
  - Rails 8 support in Hyrax and core components
  - Big ongoing effort to replace strings in views with i18n keys
- FYI, submitted proposal for Fedora Virtual Showcase
  - Emerging idea of supporting a new configuration of PG + Fedora as a downstream preservation component
Hyku updates
- 6.2 released
- M3 profile existential issue

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Chris Colvard

Attendees:

@Nic Don Stanton-Roark
@Bradley Watson
@Mark Bussey
@Tracy McCormick
@Sarah Proctor
@Rob Kaufman
@Heather Greer Klein

Meeting Process

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
Follow Agenda from above (facilitated by moderator) and record notes in Notes section below (note taker)
Standing post-agenda items (moderator)
1. call for next moderator and note taker (moderator)
  1. Moderator:
  2. Notetaker:
2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)
3. Pull request review (moderator)
  1. Recent Samvera PR list
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 “Duplicate”.
  3. Popup will open for location. It should contain:
    1. Space: Samvera
    2. Parent page: (Verify value is current year)
  4. Select “Duplicate”. New page should be created.
  5. Modify the title to remove "Duplicate of", update it with the next date, add moderator, notetaker, and any carry-over agenda info. Click Publish.

Notes

Hyku issue - https://github.com/samvera/hyku/issues/2736
1. Encounter a Solr/Blacklight error
2. Need to put in some checks to avoid this situation?
  1. @Nic Don Stanton-Roark agrees that this could be a quality of life improvement for superadmins
  2. @Tracy McCormick will put in a PR
Hyrax WG update
1. @Randall Floyd working on Rails 8 support
2. Ryan Orlando working on pulling out hard-coded strings for i18n https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7114
Fedora Virtual Showcase (November 18-20)https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/FF/2025+Virtual+Fedora+Showcase
1. @Randall Floyd putting forward idea of postgres as main store and fedora as preservation store
  1. Don’t need to try to compare the two directly on performance
Hyku updates
1. 6.2 Released!
  1. 6.2.1 bugfix coming out shortly
2. M3 profile issue
  1. Properties show up 3 different places in the UI: facets, search results, show page
  2. Not explicit when properties show up in these different contexts
  3. Implicit rules depending on different attributes of properties
  4. Should we make these explicit and less tied to the code?
    1. Mark agrees
    2. Nic Don thinks we should try to avoid possible contradictions and make most common customizations easy to find and make
    3. Can we make things more goal oriented instead of needing to know so much about how Hyrax works?
    4. Could someone make proposals and bring before SMIG?
      1. @Rob Kaufman will do this
    5. Will need to have reconciliation of drifting profiles: IU, Surfliner, Hyrax/Hyku, etc.
Next Meeting: Nov 12, 2025
1. Moderator: @Rob Kaufman
2. Notetaker: @Randall Floyd