Samvera Community Wiki
Committers Call 2012-04-02
Attendees
Moderator: Adam Wead
Notetaker: Simon Lamb
Ben Armintor
Chris Colvard (Indiana U.)
Michael Klein (Stanford)
Naomi Dushay (Stanford)
Jessie Keck (Stanford)
Justin Coyne (Mediashelf)
Next meeting's notetaker and moderator
Note: Next committers call will be on April 16th
Agenda
Hydra Release
bug with can-can
Can-Can dependency was added to Gemfile
Action: Chris to take dependency out of Gemfile and add a 'require' within lib/hydra.rb
merge to trunk
Action: Justin to rebase to incorporate Ben's recent fix (render 404...)
Action: Chris to check that fedora exception 'object not found' is caught and 404 response is given
pull request from mike k.
'Holding off to shake out major changes between 3.x and 4.0'
Small fixes can be applied to 4.0.0 release, but should be in 'feature freeze' now
LibdevconX and Hydra partner's meeting
release managers
List of release managers here - Release manager list
In meeting, Chris Colvard volunteered for JettyWrapper & Adam Wead volunteered to take 'Installation QA' (with guidance from more experience in community)
general comments
Ben needs write permissions for hydra/action-fedora
Action: Justin to give Ben & Chris update permissions
Discussion around legal issues about new editors/release managers? Need for formalised procedures for committers/release-managers to deal with merging pull requests?
Action: Grant Release managers rights to merger changes into GitHub projects
Notes from LibdevConX to be released on hydra-tech list
Institutions concerned with the rate of change of hydra-head/action-fedora: difficulties in keeping up with the latest version..
Very useful document from Matt - Hydra Stack: The Hierarchy of Promises
Naomi: Intends to rethink documentation, clarity about finding answers to questions, utilising existing code... Documentation organisation overhaul!
Discussion about providing an easy to install hydra demonstrator VM
Benefit institutions/organisations wanting to 'test-drive' hydra without having to get to grips with Ruby/RVM/and stack...
Would require a new VM to be built everytime there is a new release. Release Managers => New virtual machine image?
Justin linked: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp
Recent emails to the list
Ensure that we try to help with new user installation issues
Action: Adam to get in touch and give initial help/support avenues
Encourage IRC as great place for one-to-many troubleshooting
Documentation causing issues - It's not clear what to use, what to ignore
Jira roundup
Unassigned Version tickets no more – let's assign versions to 5 of them this call:https://jira.duraspace.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+HYDRA+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+AND+fixVersion+is+EMPTY+ORDER+BY+updated+DESC%2C+priority+DESC
HYDRA-771 - Move to latest weekly sprint
HYDRA-130 - Won't fix
HYDRA-48 - Won't fix
HYDRA-338 - Hydrangea related (Won't fix)
HYDRA-337 - Won't fix
HYDRA-188 - Won't fix
HYDRA-194 - Won't fix (locally fixed in hyhull)
Action: Justin to create ticket regarding deprecating the 'DownloadsController'
Deprecating message should be on the lines of... 'Please use FileAsset Controller or create Model specific DownloadsController in your hydra-head'