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Comet Sprint 56 / Daylight Sprint 28 Review (July 22, 2026 – August 10, 2026)

11 Aug 2026 • 1 min read

Comet Sprint 56 / Daylight Sprint 28 Review

What was the goal of the Comet Sprint 56 / Daylight Sprint 28?

Implement high-priority discovery features post–UCSB launch; make Comet ready for UCSD data migration.

What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting?

Discovery Integration
1. Extending search API
2. Improving discovery performance
3. Supporting authenticated IIIF
Discovery Development
1. Production readiness
Comet Migration Readiness
1. Match file set metadata to file use
2. Ensure extracted text for all files
Infrastructure and Workflow Resilience
1. Prepare for upgrade to Solr 9 (search engine software)
2. Improvements to continuous integration and deployment system

Accomplishments of Comet Sprint 56 / Daylight Sprint 28

Discovery Integration
1. We’ve done a lot of work to make the Superskunk codebase cleaner and reduce tech debt, centralizing authentication behaviours into a single location
2. Added date filter API including complex date handling
Discovery Development
1. Across Goldengate, this sprint delivered several improvements to production readiness. With a focus on cleaner and more reliable UI behavior. Work included improving object downloads, IIIF behavior, updated documentation, and fixing bugs discovered in the UI.
2. Added a Date filter widget/facet to Goldengate
3. Clarified requirements for full-text search
Comet Migration Readiness
1. The metadata displayed for file sets should now be the correct metadata for the reported file use
2. A lot of work was done on extracted text, but it has turned out to be a thornier problem than initially anticipated
3. Clarified requirements for complex object publishing/unpublishing and started implementation
4. Fixed issues around controlled value enforcement
5. Various Comet search improvements
Infrastructure and Workflow Resilience
1. Began holistic review of infrastructure and CI/CD workflow pain points
2. Started upgrade to Solr 9
3. [UCSB-GG] Implemented bot protection via AWS CloudFront
4. Implemented a date-based versioning release system into our CI/CD process

What’s next?

Discovery integration
- Full-text search
- Authenticated IIIF
- Support for visibilities other than “public” in discovery platforms
Discovery development
- Bettering download visibility parameters
- Spikes towards front-end testing (with Playwright)
- Continued improvements to UX
Comet Metadata and Display Consistency
- Finish extracted text implementation
- Finish complex object publishing/unpublishing implementation
- Technical metadata export
- Improvements (and bugfixes) to visibility
- Complete quality-of-life improvements (search, bulk operations)
Infrastructure and Workflow Resilience
- Complete upgrade to Solr 9
- Continue holistic review of infrastructure and CI/CD workflow pain points

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