Committers Call 2014-05-19

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017

Moderator: Adam Wead (Penn)

Notetaker: Drew Myers (WGBH)

Attendees:

Mark Bussey (Data Curation Experts)

Caroline Cole (Penn State)

Glen Horton (Cincinnati)

Andrew Myers (WGBH)

Thomas Sherz (Cincinnati)

Adam Wead (Penn State)

 

Agenda

  1. Call for agenda items

  2. Hydra 7.0.0 released: https://github.com/projecthydra/hydra/releases/tag/v7.0.0 - used at Minneapolis Hydra Camp (Mark B.)
    1. anyone willing to tackle better release notes?
      1. No attendees currently attempting upgrade makes it hard to identify specifics to add to existing docs.
      2. Anyone who is, or will be, using version 7 of the Hydra gem is encouraged to give feedback on release / upgrade notes.
      3. Mark will send a msg to Richard to announce on hydra-releases mailing list for Hydra 7.
    2. anyone willing to tackle upgrade notes?
      1. (Adam W.) Perhaps link directly to upgrade guides to constituent projects, e.g. Blacklight, so users don't have to dig as much. 
    3. (Thomas S.) Should we modify the Dive into Hydra tutorial?
    4. (Mark B.) Wait to change Dive into Hydra until Hydra 8 is released.
  3. Current state of Sufia (Caroline C.)
    1. NOTE: we talked for a while on this, my notes may not have covered everything. Attendees please feel free to add anything i may have left out here - Drew.
    2. (Caroline C.) Sufia's master branch in Github is currently a bit of a "hodge podge". People should be advised to use latest tagged version of Sufia (currently v3.7.2) and not the master branch in Github.
    3. (Mark B.) Some dependency issues were encountered when installing Sufia v3.7 on systems that had no previous versions of Sufia running. Tests all passed, but UI was broken. Suspects issues stemming from Rails 4 / asset pipeline.
    4. (Adam W.) Will update README on v3.7 to warn of issues when installing with Rails 4, and notify users to contact hydra-tech for more information.
    5. Users who wish to help get Sufia v4 over the finish line are encouraged to address tickets in Github issue tracker.
    6. Sufia 4 should not be expected to work with Fedora 4.
      1. There is currently a branch for getting Sufia 3 to work with Fedora 4 here https://github.com/projecthydra/sufia/tree/fedora-4. This is an effort to have a Hydra product demonstrable on Fedora 4 by OR 2014.
      2. Currently Sufia 4 is distinct, and parallel to the fedora-4 branch of Sufia 3, and at this point it is premature to discuss merging them together. Hopefully this discussion will have more shape later this summer.
  4. Next Call:
    • Date: 2014-06-02
    • Moderator: Glen Horton
    • Notetaker: Thomas Sherz