Technical Meeting (2025-08-26)

[gregorydlogan]

DevOps Status Update

• Greg
  • Chasing code coverage stuff
  • Merges
• Lars
  • UI/UX issues
• Waldemar
  • ETH migrating OC -> Tobira

Discussion re JDK updates breaking Opencast

• No way to hook packages together in Debian/RHEL
• Package pinning appears to be the 'right' soln
• Could ship JDK with OC packages
  • We then become responsible for tracking upstream CVEs -> no ty

Releases Update

• Opencast 17.x (Katrin, Veronika)
  • 17.7 scheduled for Aug 28
• Opencast 18.x (Jonas, Dennis)
  • 18.1 scheduled for Aug 28
• Opencast 19 release managers wanted
  • Still have one RM but not the other

Other

• Fix code coverage tooling (Greg)
• Somewhat security related issue
  • Editor accidentally publishes videos/overwrites publications
• UI/UX issues
  • Design a landing page suitable for non-technical users
    
  • Design a landing page suitable for non-technical users
    
  • Thumbnail editor is confusing
    
  • Track selection is barely usable if at all
    
  • Video Layout Recomendation Based on User Experiment ← Paella
• Put some users on develop.opencast.org
  • Any objections? → No.

Pull Request Reviews

• Check ‘discuss in dev meeting’ tag
• Fix index rebuild stuff (again) #6984 (waiting on Katrin)
• Fix filter cache breaking interface admin-interface#1395 (Greg)
• https://pulls.opencast.org