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Samvera Tech Call 2026-05-27

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Samvera Tech Call 2026-05-27

Meeting Logistics

  • Time: 9:00am PT / Noon ET

  • Zoom Meeting URL: https://iu.zoom.us/j/87635137325?pwd=YhVGftEpANzAwgk84swAyF53edj31x.1
    (link will launch Zoom client – if you do not have Zoom, expand the instructions below)

  • Moderator: @Rob Kaufman

  • Notetaker: @Daniel Pierce

Agenda Items

(Meeting notes below)

  • Asking for thoughts on how AI is affecting the community currently, or other communities you are a part of, in anticipation of the Samvera Board developing a lightweight AI contribution policy (Heather & Julie)

  • <add your agenda item here (+ your name)>

 

Attendees

  • @Heather Greer Klein

  • @Juliet Hardesty

  • @Nicholas Mark Homenda

  • @Randy Kuehn

  • @Shana Moore

  • @Daniel Pierce

  • @Sarah Proctor

  • @Tracy McCormick

  • you!

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: @Heather Greer Klein

      2. Notetaker: @Shana Moore

    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 Make a copy.

      3. Popup will open for location. It should contain:

        1. Space: Samvera

        2. Parent page: (Verify value is current year)

      4. Select Make a copy. New page should be created.

      5. Modify the title to remove Copy of, update it with the next date, add moderator, notetaker, and any carry-over agenda info.

      6. Click Publish. 

Meeting Notes

  1. AI and the community

    1. Heather: Concerns dev contribution. Samvera board is considering potential policies for the github repo and wants feedback. Are there developments in the AI or agent field that should be considered.

    2. Apereo move needs us to have CLAs again, and contributions need to be attributed to an actual person.

    3. Will there be an allowlist of tools? Not sure. -Julie

    4. Rob: AI generated code should be marked as such. There is also the opposite feeling that it shouldn’t because the committer is ultimately responsible.

    5. There is terminology nuance. e.g. AI tools, orchestrator, etc

    6. If there are increased contributions, what is the issue? Code review and approval throughput. -Rob

    7. Home Assistant banned AI contributions for 6 months, recently reopened. Was due to huge influx of PRs for adding devices that all had the same issues. Was overwhelming for the small team to handle.

    8. Rob: Conscious of concern of CVE security issue flood (due to AI exploit scanning) that is likely coming in the coming months. Need to be able to agile enough to respond to these, possibly with our own automation.

  2. Discussion of pull request status check requirement on hyrax main.

    1. Option is off now, but should be on

    2. Documentation only PRs shouldn’t need tests to run. Not sure how yet how to make that happen with above status check requirement.

  3. Discussion of PR that moves locale param.

    1. Google will sometimes index a page as incorrect language.

    2. PR was reverted after noticing issues.

    3. Next steps are finding why blacklight is not respecting the config.