Samvera Tech Call 2026-09-09

Meeting Logistics

Time: 9:00am PT / Noon ET
Zoom Meeting URL: https://iu.zoom.us/j/87635137325?pwd=YhVGftEpANzAwgk84swAyF53edj31x.1
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Moderator: Heather Greer Klein
Notetaker: Nicholas Mark Homenda

Agenda Items

(Meeting notes below)

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Pull Requests
- https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7580
  - There were some comments regarding possibly refactoring the validations. Wondering if this can be merged now and part of a larger refactoring of m3 validations, or if other changes might be required to get it in? No discussion or followup since original comments
- https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7631
  - This one is a blocker to me and I really need to get it through.
- https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7627
- https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/3211
- https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/3195
- https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/3196
- https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/3197
- Max’s PRs
  - Hyrax
    - https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7632
    - https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/7629
  - Hyku
    - https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/3284
    - https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/3285

Attendees

Bradley Watson
Chris Colvard
Nicholas Mark Homenda
Heather Greer Klein
Shana Moore
Praneeth Byna
Max Kadel
Randy Kuehn
Tracy McCormick
Sarah Proctor

Meeting Process

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Meeting Notes

Addressing security vulnerabilities
1. Max Kadel Hyku: Created patches, generating a CVE
2. Backporting to 6.x releases and main
3. Heather Greer Klein will be talking about this at tomorrow’s partner call, streamlining communication, disclose vulnerability when there’s a patch available
4. Chris Colvard also going through this process for Avalon, patch coming out in 8.2.1
5. Heather Greer Klein will set up a security email list, create partner-committer subgroup to share issue documentation
6. Once a fix is in place, announced on Slack and all email lists
7. Max Kadel We might just want to add a SECURITY.md to start with on the repositories (I'm not sure if there's a way to set it organization-wide)
PR review
1. Nicholas Mark Homenda Rob is away, maintenance WG has limited personnel this time around
2. Chris Colvard will look at a couple of Hyrax ones mentioned today
Requests for help
1. Nothing today
Next meeting 9/16/26
1. Moderator: Bradley Watson
2. Notetaker: Chris Colvard