Samvera Tech Call 2018-02-28

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: Jennifer Lindner

Notetaker: James Griffin

Attendees:

• LaRita Robinson (Notre Dame)
  
• Julie Allinson (CoSector, University of London)
• Jim Coble (Duke)
• Steve Van Tuyl (oregon state)
• James Griffin (Princeton University Library)
• Michael Klein (Northwestern University Library)
• cam156 (PSU)
• Michael Joseph Giarlo (Stanford)
• Chris Colvard (Deactivated) (Indiana University)
• Lynette Rayle (Cornell)
• Andrew Myers (WGBH)
• Chris Diaz (Northwestern Universit
• you! 

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. Error handling: Always raise from lower levels in the stack, like services? Log and re-raise? Catch StandardError or require more specific errors? What might a best practice be in this topic? see: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/2655#issuecomment-368589775
   3. Hyrax Analytics (Steve Van Tuyl)
      
      1. Current status
      2. Merge to master
      3. 2.1 release and analytics
         
         1. Is https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/2718 a blocker for 2.1.0? (Conor)
      4. More hands on deck?
         
   4. Hyrax 2.1 beta Testing (Chris Diaz)
      1. QA Testers had a brief meeting on Monday to discuss the testing procedures (link to shared google sheets)
      2. NURAX is currently on 2.1.0 Beta
      3. Testing is expected to begin this afternoon and continue into next week
      4. There are 13 open issues on the 2.1 milestone – any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!  (sign up)
         
   5. Parent collection list format (LaRita Robinson)
      
      1. https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/2726
         

2.1 milestone

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

Error Handling

Related to Rubocop

Discussion for the best way to handle errors

Do we log? Do we raise exceptions?

Prefer to catch StandardError

Establish best practices for moving forward