Comet Sprint 48 / Daylight Sprint 20 Review (Oct. 8, 2025 – Oct. 27, 2025)

Gabriela Montoya -

Comet Sprint 48/Daylight Sprint 20 Review

Fall Workcycle: Sprint 2, Oct. 8 – Oct. 27, 2025

GOALS:

Complete a connected discovery prototype (ADRL Lite)

  • Search API endpoint behaves as expected; remaining API endpoints for images and downloads are done (Daylight, Orange Empire)
    • Work on downloads is ongoing, but we made progress as we worked on IIIF
    • Thumbnail image returns with path provided from the API endpoint
    • IIIF manifest returns from the API endpoint
  • Daylight / ADRL Lite component registry infrastructure & deployment flow is finalized (Infrastructure focus)
    • We have finalized our approach to configuring ADRL Lite to use deployed Daylight components
    • We still need to get QA builds for these products that are configured using this approach
  • IIIF works for all dependent products (Orange Empire, ADRL Lite)
    • We made substantial improvements to IIIF without breaking things in Starlight
    • We still need to do some analysis on whether there is more work to be done with IIIF in Comet
    • ADRL Lite IIIF work is ongoing; we have manifests, but we still need to incorporate a viewer, which then needs to be styled
  • Content can be published from Comet to ADRL Lite
    • This was mostly put off for next Sprint, but we think we have a good picture of what is needed
  • Component support for Complex Objects (Comet, ADRL Lite, Daylight)
    • We had some productive discussions, but still need to flesh out some requirements
    • Complex object sample in API endpoint is now being returned

Environments / Application Reliability

  • Comet, Orange Empire, Infrastructure
    • We did quite a lot of testing across multiple environments, doing our best to replicate how users would interact with the system in a production setting
    • We also did some investigative work on what’s slowing down a lot of our operations in Comet. The next step is to review and discuss the findings and identify next steps
    • Successfully addressed an issue with Comet’s File Manager becoming non-responsive

Comet MVP Features

  • Validate DR plan (Infrastructure)
    • Storage and DB have substantial progress
    • Initial pass done, with another round of verification pending

Reduce Tech Debt

  • Moving off Bitnami (no new updates)
    • The big thing remaining is Solr. Alex and Matt need to talk with Rob Kaufman about coming up with a plan, but that hasn't happened yet
    • Other transitions are in progress and are being testing (e.g. Postgres for UCSB)

What’s next?
Continuing loose ends from this latest Sprint, Lark integration, and maintaining “order” with Bulkrax imports

GitLab link:
https://gitlab.com/groups/surfliner/-/cadences/2068118/iterations/2672496