Technical Meeting (2025-01-28)

[gregorydlogan]

It was suggested that the weekly technical meeting notes be copied to the discussion so that adopters had better visibility into our weekly meetings. Please let me know what you, dear reader, think of this!

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• DevOps Status Update
  • Matthias
    • PhD stuff done -> time for OC :D
  • Greg
    • Reattempting some Spring
    • Debs
    • Javadocs
  • Waldemar
    • Ansible Galaxy roles
    • Customer Tickets
    • Upgrading Opencasts
    • Fighting VPN configuration
  • Katrin
    • OC 17.1, chasing dependency errors
    • Changelog script work
  • Lars
    • OC 16.8
    • GH Actions update
    • Osna Stage -> 17.1
    • Prod update at semester break
• Releases Update
  • Opencast 17.x (Katrin, Veronika)
    • 17.2 on 25-02-18ish
  • Opencast 16.x (Michael, Lars)
    • 16.9 on 25-02-??
    • Katrin might want to cut a release earlier
• Architectural Rework
  • No news
  • We should discuss this before and after, since some devs will be missing for the conference
    • Aiming for the week before, and the week after
• Do some veterans know more about the “createdBy” field in series? (Arne)
  • Series metadata value "Created by" gone after Re-Indexing #6428
• Dependency errors in OC 17 (Katrin)
  • Admin Node Circular Reference Race Condition #4117
  • Greg says things are broken then
  • Also 16
  • Java 17 changed timing? Index service, service registry involved?
  • Fault of dynamic dependencies?
• Changelog (Katrin)
  • Changelog script only looks at the target branch, but misses mergeback changes
  • Always include patches to prior release but hide section
  • Add stuff to the changelog by a Github action at PR merge?
• Pull Request Reviews
  • Check ‘discuss in dev meeting’ tag
  • https://pulls.opencast.org/
• Random Aside
  • Collective Noun for Opencast