Hydra Tech Call 2016-03-30

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT

Call-In Info: 1-641-715-3660, access code 651025

Moderator: @Andrew Myers (WGBH)

Notetaker: Adam Wead (Penn State)

Attendees:

Agenda:

Tech call cancelation policy?
1. if there are no agenda items at the time of the call, the call is cancelled
Hydra Developers Congress Recap
1. ActiveFedora 9.10.0-4
  1. bring AF inline with ActiveRecord ~> 5.x
  2. bugs fixed
2. Hydra-Head 9.9.0
  1. removes deprecations, fixes bugs
3. Sufia
  1. proxy depositor
  2. use depositor and owner instead?
  3. owner requires edit access
Hydra in a box update
1. "What Justin learned" - Just the name of the project, not the product. Deliverables will be called something else.
2. not just about "doing sufia"
  1. develop features in sufia
  2. develop hosted service
  3. aggregation with with DPLA
  4. easier deployment
3. if you want more detail, there's a summary that Mike G. wrote up
4. one-week sprints between now and June 1
5. Justin: not all of it is Sufia development. You should not have the expectation that Sufia is going to solve everyone's Hydra problems.
6. Mike: focusing on GenericWorks, such as images, and a migration path for people using ContentDM and similar products
Sufia 7 update
1. tag cloud is gone (hooray!)
2. new upload process
  1. upload files, tracked in ActiveRecord, but not put into Fedora until the work is created
  2. can change before creating
  3. follows new UI
3. Weekly HyBox sprints will be focused around getting Sufia 7 released