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Samvera Tech Call 2026-01-07

Samvera Tech Call 2026-01-07

Meeting Logistics:

Agenda (meeting notes below)

  • Hyrax

    • 2025 Leftovers…

      • Need to get flexible metadata working on PG Nurax for QA; just needs configuration change for FileSet class name mapping



Moderator: @Daniel Pierce

Notetaker: @Chris Colvard

Attendees:

  • @Heather Greer Klein

  • @Randall Floyd

  • @Bradley Watson

  • @Shana Moore

  • @Nic Don Stanton-Roark

  • @Praneeth Byna



Meeting Process

  1. 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

  2. Follow Agenda from above (facilitated by moderator) and record notes in Notes section below (note taker)

  3. 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

  4. 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

  1. Hyrax updates / 2025 leftovers

    1. Need flexible metadata configuration on nurax for QA testing

      1. Will happen on next Hyrax WG sprint

      2. Question: Is there a test suite run for flexible metadata turned on (requires ENV variable)?

        1. Not yet

        2. Issue created for this: Create new test app with Flexible turned on · Issue #7255 · samvera/hyrax

    2. Bulkrax improvements (@Daniel Pierce )

      1. Similar to flexible metadata would be good to have Hyrax test suite testing with bulkrax turned on

    3. Rails 8 upgrade (@Randall Floyd )

      1. Deprecation warning work from @Mark Bussey may help resolve problems

  2. @Bradley Watson seeking help

    1. upgrading Hyrax 3 to 5 - changing to using docker instead of fcrepo_wrapper/solr_wrapper

    2. failing capybara tests in docker

    3. anyone available to take a look / pair up?

    4. @Daniel Pierce will help

  3. Browse-everything updates from Avalon (@Chris Colvard )

    1. PRs are in and getting reviewed by @Jonathan Rochkind. Feel free to take a look and add your review/opinion/concerns:

      1. Bring in Avalon Media System changes (Google Drive improvements, Sharepoint Integration) by masaball · Pull Request #455 · samvera/browse-everything

      2. Remove jquery by Dananji · Pull Request #453 · samvera/browse-everything

    2. Hope to have things merged into mainline by end of winter/spring

    3. Would testing in Hyrax now be helpful?

      1. Not quite yet. @Chris Colvard will raise in tech call when ready for testing

  4. Calls for Support

    1. In #dev, upgrade to Hyrax 5 to postgres (and fedora 6) without any model changes. Is there any good documentation on this?

      1. @Daniel Pierce will respond

  5. Next call: Jan 14, 2026

    1. Moderator: @Bradley Watson

    2. Notetaker: @Daniel Pierce