Samvera Tech Call 2018-03-07

How to connect: https://psu.zoom.us/j/613720745 (link will launch Zoom client – if you do not have Zoom, expand the instructions below)

Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT

Moderator: Steve Van Tuyl

Notetaker: James Griffin

Attendees:

• Steve Van Tuyl (oregon state uni)
• Michael Joseph Giarlo (Stanford)
• Glen Horton (Cincinnati)
• Jim Coble (Duke)
• tamsin woo (DCE)
• James Griffin (Princeton University)
• Justin Gondron (Notre Dame)
• Lynette Rayle (Cornell)
• LaRita Robinson (Notre Dame)
• Chris Colvard (Deactivated) (Indiana University)
• Collin Brittle (Emory)
• Jennifer Lindner (DCE)
• Chris Diaz (Northwestern University)
• Andrew Myers (WGBH)

Agenda

1. Roll call by timezone per following order - ensure notetaker is present (moderator)

   1. folks outside North and South America

   2. Eastern timezone

   3. Central timezone

   4. Mountain timezone

   5. Pacific timezone

   6. folks who were missed or who dialed in during roll call

   7. Welcome all newcomers!
2. Agenda (moderator)
   1. Call for new agenda items (moderator)
   2. Information gathering & discussion for feature specs refactor (LaRita Robinson)
      1. I created some starting notes and questions to begin the thought process
      2. Link to the notes page is on this issue: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/2738
   3. Hyrax 2.1 Release Update (Steve Van Tuyl et al.):
      1. 15 open blocking issues: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/projects/4
      2. QA testing will finish up this week
   4. Hyrax 2.0-stable support? (tamsin woo)
      1. The build has been broken due to bad dependencies whose fixes haven't been backported.
         1. https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/2765
         2. This blocks bug fixes to 2.0-stable
      2. What is the support timeline for 2.0-stable?

1. Notetaker and moderator for next time
   
   1. Notes:
   2. Moderate:
2. After call, this week's notetaker should create the agenda for the next call.
3. If desired, stay after the call to assist in grooming PR backlog

Notes

Information Gathering and Feature Specs

Robinson

• Working with collection sprints
• Document (rather than refactor) for feature specs
  • Pull them out into a separate route
  • Linked to Documentation WG
  • Created an issue in response to these needs
  • Easier to publish a page outlining the feature spec. refactoring proposal
  • Collaborated with Giarlo and Rayle

Rayle

• Basic proposal is that the feature tests woiuld be extracted out of main test suite
• Own run in CI, run weekly or monthly
  • Wouldn't block builds for each Pull Request
• The proposal details this approach
  

Hyrax 2.1 Release Update

Van Tuyl

• First round of QA testing will finish this week

Diaz

• Tests in script have been executed on at least one browser and on O/S
• Continuing to work through this process later today
• Aim for a beta release by next week
  

Van Tuyl

• 14 blocking issues to the release exist
• Call for collaboration on resolving these issues
  

Rayle

• 8 are being actively resolved

Van Tuyl

• If you've done work on an issue related to this project, you might be contacted
• Any questions?

Robinson

• Files that a Work contains when Work is public but the Files are private
  • Blocks the file name (changed to "File"), but still renders that the file is there
  • Thumbnail is also hidden, but is rendered in IIIF Viewer
  • Clicking on the link directs to an "Unauthorized" page
  • Is that the desired behavior?
  • Not a bug from the Collections Extensions Sprint

Rayle

• Was it intentional to render those private Files to unauthenticated users?

Robinson

• Can extend a SearchBuilder to filter by access controls
• Should this be undertaken?

Van Tuyl

• Interested in contacting the Repository Managers IG

Rayle

• Should also contact the Tech. List (samvera-tech)
• Two use cases
  • Shouldn't render the files at all
• Perhaps permit configuration to render or hide these Files?

Hyrax 2.0 Stable Support

Johnson

• Two weeks, the 2.0 stable build has been broken
• 5 individual dependency shifts caused some problem
  • SimpleForm breaks, for example
  • Fixes were not backported
• Johnson has been addressing technical debt in order to ensure that 2.0 stable continues to be stable when these updates are applied
• How best to address this collectively?
• https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/2765
  • Was merged this morning by Colvard
  • 2.0 is now, once again, stable
• What commitment do we have to stable releases?

Van Tuyl

• Has the community had a policy or standard around this?
• If not, what does everyone see as the best practices

Colvard

• No established practices
• Adopters are expected to undertake the backporting
• Certain institutions might want to stay with 2.0 build given the issues involved in supporting dependency updates

Giarlo

• Demand for maintenance on existing builds has far exceeded the resources available to undertake this work

Johnson

• Many of the solutions required more time to sort through the commit history
• Ideally, this time could be reduced significantly through improving reviewing of commits

Lindner

• Code Stability WG is attempting to address these types of problems
• Beyond simply regression tests, how can one diagnose a particular problem

Myers

• Might this be related to Gemspecs with too loosely-versioned Gem dependencies

Johnson

• No, for example, SimpleForm had a bugfix which broke hydra-forms functionality

Myers

• But, when moving to a stable release, if a Gemspec versions were tighter, perhaps these problems could be mitigated
• Not advocating that every Gem be pinned down for a patch release, but this should be addressed for a stable release

Rayle

• Addressing changes in dependencies by pinning releases can be done
• But more broadly, labeling which commits/pull requests resolve specific bugs might resolve this more effectively

Gondron

• Perhaps could research which releases are affected by a given bug before one starts to resolve the bug

Rayle

• That's ideal, but requires a system in place to support back-releases
• Requiring one to analyze other releases before resolving a bug might further reduce the number of potential contributors

Giarlo

• Governance WG has released recommendations around how this could be better organized
• Resourcing
  • Finding adequate resourcing is essential
  • Forming a new WG to develop a model for better resourcing (particularly for addressing maintenance)
  • Invitation for others to become involved

Colvard

• Feedback for the findings of the Governance WG is due today

Van Tuyl

• Is there a more immediate need to deal with backporting issues before process is defined

Johnson

• It could be fine right now
• Triaging before a bug is resolved sounds fine
• Finding which Hyrax versions are supported, and which features are being backported
• If you are doing code review, you might be looking for this type of difference
  • Answering that for supported Hyrax releases would be an improvement

Van Tuyl

• Added this topic to the next Hyrax Roadmap Advisory IG meeting
• Any other issues can come to the tech. call as they arise

Moderator:

Lindner

Notetaker:

Colvard

(Hyrax Pull Request Grooming Follows)