Samvera Tech Call 2026-01-28

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
Zoom Meeting URL: https://iu.zoom.us/j/87635137325?pwd=YhVGftEpANzAwgk84swAyF53edj31x.1
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Hyrax: Currently in working group sprint
- Blockers solved for flexible metadata per https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7327
  - Can now hopefully be configured correctly on Nurax for QA
- Currently building out the new test app with flexible enabled per https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/7255
  - Draft PR started https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7333
  - Local run of specs with flexible enabled shows a fair amount of failing tests, most seem to stem from missing metadata around collections/admin_sets
Github permissions reorganization (@Chris Colvard)
- Proposal for Changes to Github and Rubygems Permissions
- Secure two-factor auth
- Future work: rubygems trusted publishing

Hyrax overall status: working to get Flexible Metadata ready for production (see notes above)
Github Permissions: overall goal is to tighten things up, make permissions more consistent across organization, simplify where possible
- NEW TEAMS:
  - Owners - see proposal link above
  - Contributors - actively contributing
  - “Emeritus” - no longer active, but previous contributions
- Request everyone to get to 2-factor auth for their GitHub accounts
Need to determine thresholds for when inactive contributors are moved out of the active contributor group
- Ideally managed by a bot (so it’s automated and consistent, and no one gets targeted for angry e-mail)
Need to determine how to onboard or funnel new contributors into requesting access
- Possibly add instructions to wiki or group description https://github.com/orgs/samvera/teams/samvera-contributors
PRs for review
- Hyrax PRs flowing well
Docs for migrating existing Repos to Flexible Flexible metadat
- @Rob Kaufman will round up any currently existing documentation
- There will be a future need for more detailed process documentation regarding:
  - Valkyrization for Fedora → Wings
  - Persistence migration away from Fedora 4
  - Implementing Flexible Metadata for migrated repositor applications
Next meeting
- Moderator: @Rob Kaufman
- Notetaker: @Randall Floyd

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Mark Bussey

Attendees:

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2. Call for new agenda items
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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
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  2. Click on ... in the top right corner, and select “Duplicate”.
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  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.