Samvera Tech Call 2025-12-17

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)

PR for QA to use native ActiveSupport::Deprecation functionality: https://github.com/samvera/questioning_authority/pull/410
- There is some conditional code for different levels of Rails support since QA is tested against Ruby 3.0+Rails 6.0 through Ruby 3.4+Rails 8.1. ActiveSupport::Deprecations was added in Rails 7.1. The README says “This gem works with Rails 5.0-7.0 and Ruby 2.5-3.1”. What are the oldest versions of Rails we want to support? Could we remove support for the older Ruby and Rails Versions in the next major version QA release - i.e. 6.0.0?
- This PR will generate lots of new deprecation warnings during test runs (they were previously silenced). Is this OK?
Hyku Wiki Updates - @Mark Bussey reviewed all the pages on the Hyku Wiki and came up with a list of recommendations for pages to move or delete: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rmAgXVa-Z7srh7MyYldBi_PU-KQQgWhEk9_YvOe1lZs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.pd3dibmk18lm. The Samvera Documentation Interest Group has given the go ahead to move relevant documents into confluence. Would folks here be supportive of this PR https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/2859 to commit relevant pages to the /docs directory in the Hyku repo?
Hyku releases - A non-update

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PR for Questioning Authority
1. Informational, got merged
2. QA had suppressed deprecation warnings in test runs
3. So test runs could get noisier with warnings
4. May have to drop testing matrix below Rails 7.2 because the ActiveSuppor::Deprecations not available
Wiki updates
1. Trying to find overlaps and consolidate and targeting either Wiki or repo per the list ???
2. How do we deal with the wiki pages that need to be removed
3. Consensus was that we should just disable the Wiki in the repo entirely
  1. If anyone objects to that, we can find a way to automatically create/sync the wiki after the fact
Hyku update
1. Wrapping up the last open issues for 6.1.2 release
2. Needs some more internal infrastructure to keep all releases up for testing
3. Mark found a Hyku testing plan during documentation sweep, kept it - Hyku team should review and consolidate
FITS
1. The opinion from tech/dev interests is that the time and effort would be better spent refactoring for a better replacement versus
Open PRs
1. Dynamic sitemaps https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7315
  1. Would also like to do something for robots.txt in conjunction with sitemaps
Jan 7th 2026
1. Daniel moderate
2. Chris notes