Comet Sprint 44/ Daylight Sprint 16 Review (June 18, 2025

Comet Sprint 44/ Daylight Sprint 16 Review

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 44 / Daylight Sprint 16

Daylight: Build out ADLR pages using Daylight components and continuing efforts to integrate with the available API endpoints.

Comet: Advancing work on core Comet functionality while finalizing and launching the QA and sandbox environments.

What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting?

Daylight: Creating a connected Daylight, Comet, Lark, IIIF, etc., including Daylight production deployment patterns.

Comet: Setting up the QA environment significantly enhances our ability to validate new features and identify issues early, representing a major improvement over previous ad hoc workflows.

Accomplishments of Comet Sprint 44 / Daylight Sprint 16

Daylight

The homepage, and search results pages were built out on ADRL using Daylight components; eyebrow [1], search-bar [2], quicklinks [3], results-list [9] and simple-results-pager [8]
Continue progress on api endpoints, and
IIIF Universal Viewer within the Object-Viewer [12]
Strategized collaboration between design and development, framing mental models and delivery expectations.

Comet:

We're wrapping up a small set of remaining features and resolving numerous minor bugs and quality-of-life issues identified through broader testing of Comet.
On the environment design front, both campuses now have sandbox deployments running for all Surfliner applications—except Starlight. Team members are currently testing these environments to ensure everything is properly connected and configured, given the many interdependent components. The shared QA environment (hosted in UCSB's AWS account) is also live, and team members from both campuses have begun testing. Seed data has been added to streamline the process, so users don't need to manually ingest content.
- Comet’s environments diagram: https://architecture.eks.dld.library.ucsb.edu/deploy-environments.html

What’s next?

Daylight: Our ongoing work will focus on integrating components into ADRL Lite, specifically enhancing the object display page and addressing additional requirements for the search results page. We are also committed to advancing the developer experience by advancing campuses' ability to explore and experiment with the layout, design, and HTML/CSS/JS of their pages using Daylight components.

Comet: We’re finalizing the environment design and will soon move into testing to ensure the full set of core Comet features are functioning as expected.

GitLab link: https://gitlab.com/surfliner/surfliner/-/cadences/2065753/iterations/2603190