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Samvera Tech Call 2026-08-12

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Samvera Tech Call 2026-08-12

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: @Chris Colvard

  • Notetaker: @Nicholas Mark Homenda

Agenda Items

(Meeting notes below)

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

 

Attendees

  • @Bradley Watson

  • @Chris Colvard

  • @Shana Moore

  • @Juliet Hardesty

  • @LaRita Robinson

  • @Tracy McCormick

  • @Christine Peterson

  • @LaRita Robinson

  • @Sarah Proctor

  • @Nic Don Stanton-Roark

  • @Daniel Pierce

  • @Heather Greer Klein

  • @Kirk Wang

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:

      2. Notetaker:

    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. @Nicholas Mark Homenda Hyrax Maintenance WG testing Dassie and Koppie Compound Metadata and Flexible Metadata, found a couple of bugs

    1. https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/7572

    2. @LaRita Robinson already addressed this!

  2. @Kirk Wang PR getting rid of deprecated warnings: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7574

  3. @Daniel Pierce planning on reviving Rails 8 PR: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7233

    1. @Chris Colvard Avalon is on Rails 8.0, so there’s a possibility some community gems won’t work with Rails 8.1

  4. @LaRita Robinson found a Bulkrax bug, caching old schema

  5. @Tracy McCormick noted: Our hyku instance is live at https://digitalhistory.lib.wvu.edu/   we are still doing some testing if anyone wants to view it.

  6. @LaRita Robinson working on getting Hyrax DOI gem working again. If anyone wants to test it out, they can. It won’t support Dassie/ActiveFedora.

  7. @Chris Colvard Avalon final stages of patch release 8.2.1, addressing bugs found in 8.2, should be released in a week or two.

  8. PRs needing review (none needing additional attention)

  9. Slack/email calls for help

    1. @Rob Kaufman will respond to David Moles' question

  10. @Rob Kaufman working through backlog of open Hyrax and Hyku PRs

  11. Tech Call Wednesday Aug 19, 2026

    1. Moderator: @Rob Kaufman

    2. Notetaker: @LaRita Robinson