Notes: Check-in for Community Sprint December 1 - 5, 2025

We'll record group updates here in case there's anyone who misses the call

Kick-off Dec 1, 2025

Attendees:

@Chris Colvard
@Mark Bussey
@Daniel Pierce
@Randall Floyd
@Sarah Cogley
@Praneeth Byna
@Tracy McCormick
@Rebekah Kati
@Juliet Hardesty
@Jon Cameron

Interest / Focus:

Chris - Browse-everything
Mark - Speeding up Hyrax test suite
Daniel - Riiif performance
Sarah - Hyrax documentation
Rebekah - Hyrax documentation; user testing
Jon - Documentation
Randall - Rails 8 compatibility
Tracy - Looking to join in where ever needed
Praneeth - Documentation; user testing
Julie - Documentation - bulkrax end-user; user testing

Group updates Dec 2, 2025

Attendees:

@Chris Colvard
@Daniel Pierce
@Juliet Hardesty
@Tracy McCormick
@Mark Bussey
@Randall Floyd
@Rebekah Kati
@Jon Cameron
@Former user (Deleted)
@Praneeth Byna
@Sarah Cogley

Updates:

Chris - Docker workshop, reviewed first Ready Hyrax ticket (screen reader text for Remove), draft PR but also Tracy has PR; today - working with Daniel on Github permissions/rubygems permissions for timeline/next steps, also activeFedora release for F6

Daniel - updated Max’s RIIIF PR, review Valkyrie storage adaptors; today - Github permissions with Chris

Julie - workshop, moved Tech MD doc issue to done; today - meet with Mark and work on bulkrax doc

Sarah - today - Hyrax doc on selecting work types for content managers, tag Rebekah and Julie for review

Praneeth - Docker workshop, got permissions in Github to assign task to self; today - work on Hyku doc for customizing branding/theming, have Hyku running locally

Jon - today - start working on doc issue

Rebekah - 7143, gather all end user doc for Hyrax, moved some straggler pages but dev-focused pages need review (tagged Daniel and Randall but any dev feedback); today - 7293, glossary comparison btw hyku and hyrax

Randall - core components sorted and passing tests, need PR reviews (Rails8 story has links to PRs) but then can merge and release

Mark - ran test suite locally (finished after 5 hours); today - working on whittling away at tests that are taking too long, has PR that needs review, meeting with Julie

Tracy - PRs for screen reader issues in Hyrax; today - captions issue, has idea but needs review

Group updates Dec 3, 2025

(See notes for the Tech Call)

Attendees:

@Daniel Pierce
@Sarah Cogley
@Praneeth Byna
@Randall Floyd
@Rebekah Kati
@Nicholas Mark Homenda
@Tracy McCormick
@Mark Bussey
@Juliet Hardesty
@Chris Colvard

Updates:

Daniel - reviewing a11y hydra-editor PRs; looking at better approach which might jeopardize time to work on riiif performance
Sarah - Finished 2666 Hyrax documentation - work type selection guidelines; Today looking at Hyrax 7294 evaluating pages for customizing metadata confluence docs
Praneeth - Hyku Theming and Branding documentation - issues with font dropdown not collapsing and save goes back to logo tab, not sure what to do with custom CSS
Randall - Core components for Rails 8; issues with CircleCI; working on releases to bring back into Hyrax
Rebekah - 7293 comparing gloassary documentation - created spreadsheet and working on proposal for consolidated glossary
Nick - Will look at documentation board; Available to answer questions; Devs can feel free to bring discussion tasks into ready and
Tracy - Looking at 7235 dropdown a11y issue - seems to be in Blacklight looking into override
Julie - documentation for running Hyrax with Docker - looking good! Questions about improving documentation about running spec tests - issue with hyrax engine path?; Also working on bulkrax documentation - went through wiki and thinking about how to structure/position documentation given it can be used in different environments (Hyrax/Hyku/etc.) - will link from those to bulkrax wiki
Mark - working on speeding up Hyrax test suite - slow going given long cycle time - hope to have something by end of the week
Chris - talked with Daniel about hydra-editor a11y PRs; today looking at finishing up long-standing ActiveFedora Fedora 6 PR

Group updates Dec 4, 2025

Attendees:

@Mark Bussey
@Randall Floyd
@Nicholas Mark Homenda
@Rebekah Kati
@Daniel Pierce
@Tracy McCormick
@Praneeth Byna
@Chris Colvard

Updates:

Randall - Released hydra-editor and hydra-works with rails 8 support! Updated Hyrax branch and figuring out failing tests. Looking to get through one failing test by end of day. Out tomorrow
Praneeth - wrote up tickets from issues found yesterday; will work on metadata fields in hyku documentation will reach out to Heather (and Nic Don)
Rabekah - finished glossary inventories; example glossary entry where it appears in only one; tagged Nic Don and Nick looking for feedback if this is a desired approach
Tracy - 7235 sort drop-downs - switched gears and did i18n; will work on 7108
Daniel - reviewed and merged Mark’s IIIF speedup PR; Reviewed a11y remove button PR; will review Rebekah’s documentation requests
Nick - looked at 7235 as well; will work on VPAT for hyrax
Mark - test suite speedup PR; Blacklight deprecation warnings PR coming soon; Hyrax deprecations are missing messages due to BL custom deprecations gem being different than standard rails methods - need to update Hyrax deprecations?
Julie (from slack) - worked on Bulkrax documentation - linked to Bulkrax end user docs in github wiki from Hyrax confluence wiki pages; Thinking about doing the same for Hyku but want validation from a hyku person

Follow on conversation for Mark’s question:
Blacklight removed custom gem in BL 8 so probably want to do the standard rails way
Hyrax is still on BL 7 though and a number of core components still use the custom gem
Maybe there is a way to catch different method signature in Hyrax and direct to rails instead of custom gem?
Mark will start with writing up a ticket in maintenance repo for removal of custom gem from core components