Notes: Check-in for Community Sprint March 23rd - 27th, 2026

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Notes: Check-in for Community Sprint March 23rd - 27th, 2026

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

Group updates

Kick-off March 23, 2026

Attendees:

  • @Nicholas Mark Homenda

  • @Rebekah Kati

  • @Tiffany Chan

  • @Daniel Pierce

  • @Chris Colvard

  • @Eleni Castro

Interest / Focus:

  • A/V viewers

    • Improving IIIF, adding Clover, adding transcripts - Tiffany

    • Adding RAMP - Chris

  • Documentation

    • Flexible Metadata Testing for Hyrax - Rebekah

    • Eleni will look through documentation tickets and add to Community Sprint board

  • Available for QA - Rebekah, Eleni

  • BrowseEverything PRs - Chris

  • Core Component updates (if time) - Chris

  • Bulkrax errors - Daniel and Nick will meet to summarize issues

  • Daniel will look through in-progress tasks on Community Sprint board

 

March 24, 2026

Attendees:

  • @Nicholas Mark Homenda

  • @Rebekah Kati

  • @Tiffany Chan

  • @Daniel Pierce

  • @Chris Colvard

  • @Amanda Hurford

  • @Randy Kuehn

Updates:

  • Daniel: looking into Bulkrax issues on f6.nurax. Probably due to tmp uploads directory configuration, will try to change this config, needing a PR to Hyrax

  • Chris: looking over Tiffany’s PR, will start playing with Ramp install PR

  • Tiffany: Clover install generator PR

  • Rebekah: testing criteria for flexible metadata, moved tests around

  • Amanda: ready to work on something QA/documentation

  • Randy: interested in accessibility stories; will investigate UV alt text or screen reader menu sort stories

  • Slack updates tomorrow since tech call is conflicting

March 26, 2026

Attendees:

  • @Nicholas Mark Homenda

  • @Rebekah Kati

  • @Tiffany Chan

  • @Daniel Pierce

  • @Chris Colvard

  • @Randy Kuehn

Updates:

  • Tiffany: merged Clover PR after review from Daniel and Chris

    • Normally stuff gets auto deployed to Nurax, but in this case we need to run generators in various nuraxes

    • Limited to Audio/Video works for now

    • Nick will test locally

  • Daniel: reviewing PR, local environment work for working on Sidekiq issue

  • Chris: worked with Dananji on Ramp stuff, no PR yet but progress isolating Ramp in the way Clover is

    • A couple things need to happen in Ramp by Dananji

    • Additional styling work will be needed at a later date

  • Rebekah: finished flexible metadata QC spreadsheet, Koppie testing

  • Randy: fixed catalog sort accessibility issue Use textual labels for public catalog sort options by rkuehn-uofl · Pull Request #7402 · samvera/hyrax

  • Daniel part 2:

    • Welcome to first Hyrax sprint/PR to @Tiffany Chan and many thanks!

    • Testing Fedora 7

  • Nick: wrap-up meeting tomorrow at 3PM Eastern