Samvera Tech Call 2026-02-04

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Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
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Agenda (meeting notes below)

Bulkrax with Hyrax 5/Fedora 6 (@Dolsy Smith )
- Relevant work/issues (in order of priority for us): PR 7320; issue 1092 (Bulkrax); issue 1087 (Bulkrax); issue 1088 (Bulkrax)
Failing nightly builds of hydra-head, hydra-works, and hydra-pcdm (@Chris Colvard)
- Seems to mostly be due to incompatibility between newer faraday and older rdf gems fixed in rdf 3.3.2 (Update #start_with? to match String#start_with signature by tpendragon · Pull Request #444 · ruby-rdf/rdf )
- Do we force upgrade to rdf 3.3.2 (valkyrie does) in ldp or try to bust circleci bundle caches or is there a better solution?
Draft PR for Allinson test app in Hyrax (enables flexible metadata) @Randall Floyd
- Serves as a reference implementation for enabling flexible metadata
- Functionally works when desk-checking the UI
- Test suite is a bit of a disaster with 2/3 failing specs
- When we are sprinting again, I would invite anyone interested to meet and discuss how/if we should test. Should we:
  - Get the whole suite passing with flexible fully enabled, and add yet another full pass through the suite in the matrix.
  - Develop a subset set of feature tests/work type model tests, and conditionally only run them when flexible is dynamically flipped on during the existing koppie/sirenia passes

Moderator: @Bradley Watson

Notetaker: @Randall Floyd

Attendees:

@Randy Kuehn
@Chris Colvard
@Nic Don Stanton-Roark
@Heather Greer Klein
@LaRita Robinson
Kirk Wang
@Shana Moore
@Dolsy Smith
@Tracy McCormick
@Rob Kaufman

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Notes

Bulkrax with Hyrax 5/Fedora 6 (@Dolsy Smith George Washington University)
- Relevant work/issues (in order of priority for us): PR 7320; issue 1092 (Bulkrax); issue 1087 (Bulkrax); issue 1088 (Bulkrax)
- Upgrading to Hyrax 5/Fedora 6
- So far, no problems with Hyrax, but some things in latest Bulkrax/Hyrax3 aren’t working correctly in Hyrax5
  - embargoes etc
- Looking for collaborators on…
  - Query changes in a draft PR, but they are using that branch
  - Seems like the biggest need is just moving some PR/issues through to releases
  - Embargo behavior at fileset level; used to be able to set in the fileset rows but doesn’t work in Hyrax 5 - the fileset gets reset to be the parent embargo
- Rob suggests this is potentially a timing issue as to who “wins” when applying the embargo, possibly could be fixed by always checking at the fileset level to not overwrite one if it exists.
Failing nightly builds of hydra-head, hydra-editor, hydra-works, and hydra-pcdm (@Chris Colvard)
- Seems to mostly be due to incompatibility between newer faraday and older rdf gems fixed in rdf 3.3.2 (Update #start_with? to match String#start_with signature by tpendragon · Pull Request #444 · ruby-rdf/rdf )
- Do we force upgrade to rdf 3.3.2 (valkyrie does) in ldp or try to bust circleci bundle caches or is there a better solution?
- Rob agrees that updating rdf in ldp is the right thing to do.
Draft PR for Allinson test app in Hyrax (enables flexible metadata) @Randall Floyd
- Serves as a reference implementation for enabling flexible metadata
- Functionally works when desk-checking the UI
- Test suite is a bit of a disaster with 2/3 failing specs
- When we are sprinting again, I would invite anyone interested to meet and discuss how/if we should test. Should we:
  - Get the whole suite passing with flexible fully enabled, and add yet another full pass through the suite in the matrix.
  - Develop a subset set of feature tests/work type model tests, and conditionally only run them when flexible is dynamically flipped on during the existing koppie/sirenia passes.
LaRita:
- Issue of broken deposit workflows(?)
- Hyku 6.2 branch has some kind of fix with schema loading with flexible
  - Error adding work with mediated deposit workflows when flexible = true · Issue #2769 · samvera/hyku
- There’s a PR (hyrax?) that needs to be kicked back to draft/dev mode

Next week:

moderator - Brad Watson

notetaker - Chris Colvard