Samvera Tech Call 2019-03-06
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: tamsin johnson
Notetaker: James Griffin
Attendees:
- Jim Coble (Duke)
- Collin Brittle (Emory)
- Lynette Rayle (Cornell)
- Julie Allinson (CoSector - University of London)
- Gordon Leacock (Univ. of Michigan)
- Chris Colvard (Deactivated) (Indiana University)
- Randall Floyd (Indiana University)
- Daniel Pierce (Indiana University)
- tamsin woo (UCSB)
- Adam Wead (Penn State University)
- jamie (Data Curation Experts)
- James Griffin (Princeton University Library)
Agenda
Roll call by timezone per following order - ensure notetaker is present (moderator)
folks outside North and South America
Eastern timezone
Central timezone
Mountain timezone
Pacific timezone
folks who were missed or who dialed in during roll call
- Remind everyone to sign in on agenda.
- Welcome all newcomers!
- Agenda (moderator)
- Call for new agenda items (moderator)
- Rails 5.2 support (Chris Colvard (Deactivated))
- Questioning Authority nearing a major release (Lynette Rayle )
- Need help with review of... pull #210 - Replace URI.escape with ERB::Util.url_encode
- Documentation moved to wiki: https://github.com/samvera/questioning_authority/wiki
- Universal Viewer: Princeton aren't using/maintaining pul_uv_rails and pul/universal_viewer any longer. It is out of date (see hyrax#3232) and I've identified a bug with MS Edge (see pul_uv_rails/12)
- Speaking of checking for Rails 5.2 support of core components, Randall Floyd still needs technical assistance transferring ownership of LDP from Carrick R.
- Coveralls slow? (Lynette Rayle )
- Moderator & notetaker for next time
- Moderator:
- Notetaker:
- After call, this week's notetaker should create the agenda for the next call:
Open template agenda titled "Samvera Tech Call 2019-xx-xx"
- Click on ... in the top right corner, and select copy.
- Popup will open for location. It should contain:
- Space: Samvera
- Parent page: 2019
- Select copy. New page should be created.
- Modify the title to remove "copy of", update it with the next date, add moderator, notetaker, and any carry-over agenda info. Click Publish.
- PR Review
- Review issues:
- PR review coordinator for next time:
Notes
Rails 5.2 Support (Chris Colvard)
- Audited the Gems which needed to be updated
- Began working on updates and publishing Gems
- Planning to issue an announcement on the tech. mailing list
- AF 12.1.0 was released (with Rails 5.2 support)
- Then, just a matter of walking back
- hydra-pcdm, hydra-works, and that might be enough to permit testing for Hyrax
- hydra-head had an issue with AF 12.1.0 (but this is likely related to an updated Solr Schema)
- Call for community members of testing Hyrax against Rails 5.2
- Tom will be looking to update the build matrix
Questioning Authority (Lynette Rayle)
- Going to release this very soon
- Major release: significant refactoring of the linked data module
- Better separation of Classes in the Gem
- New feature: extended context with the linked data module
- There are configurations which drive the linked data, URI, Label, and context presented to the user in the UI (to permit them to make better selections)
- README was becoming really difficult to navigate
- New documentation was published in the form of the Wiki (please see https://github.com/samvera/questioning_authority/wiki)
- Also tried to address many issues on the repository
- pull #210 : Call for testing from anyone uses an authority with unusual characters in the query (this only affects search)
- This will be tested against Hyrax before the release goes out
- Public API (methods): LinkedData Module has changed slightly, but everything else is backward-compatible
Universal Viewer (Julie Allinson)
- Microsoft Edge issue is breaking the pul_uv_rails
- James from Princeton is going to be contributing to active maintenance of this Gem (as Princeton still uses it)
- Will turn their focus to this issue, as Princeton needs to update the Gem for other requirements
- Tom: There is a long-standing item to remove the dependency of Hyrax on this Gem
- It's preferred to have an alternative which is used more actively by Samvera developers
- At some point, this will still be yanked
- Adam: If Hyrax used Webpack, this might also provide a solution to this
- There is a version 3 branch for the UV, but it has not been released
- Tom: Agrees with the Webpack-based approach as being desirable
- Chris: Hyrax 2.4 should permit that one should able to choose a viewer by overriding a partial and using Webpack for the JavaScript dependency
Transferring LDP Gem Ownership (Randall Floyd)
- Core Components Maintenance WG needs to assist with the transfer of this Gem to Randall
- Need to ensure that Rails 5.2 support is provided for this Gem
- Tom: Added this to the agenda for the CCMWG
- There is a meeting scheduled for this WG on Friday
- Randall is unavailable, but this will be on the agenda
Coveralls Delays (Lynette Rayle):
- Reporting from the Coveralls service has been very slow (hours)
- Adam: This seems to occur infrequently, but it has occurred before
- Julie: Confirms that this has been observed
- Adam: PSU started using CodeClimate
- Has the ability to submit multiple builds for code coverage analysis, along with ABC and cyclomatic complexity analysis
- CodeClimate is only free for open source repositories
- Chris: Avalon is using CodeClimate now
Volunteers for the Next Call:
Moderator: Julie
Notetaker: James
Call concluded at 09:24 PST/12:24 EST
Hyrax Pull Request Review
Attendees
- Chris Colvard
- Tom Johnson
- Gordon Leacock
- Randall Floyd
Notes:
- Transaction PR was just closed
- If CircleCI is settled, we can run through the backports
- There is still an issue with the RemoteFiles-related flapping bug
- Tom: Did we revert the change which introduced that?
- Chris: We were still undecided
- Interested in getting feedback from Michael Klein
- Tom needed to leave early, nee