Sprint Review

A collection of 80 posts

Comet

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

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

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Comet Sprint 46 / Daylight Sprint 18 / Lark Sprint Review (Jul. 30, 2025 - Aug. 18, 2025)

Summer Workcycle: Sprint 3, July 30-August 18 What were the goals of Comet Sprint 46 / Daylight Sprint 18 / Lark Sprint 18? 1. Discovery Prototype (ADRL Lite): a. Complete API work for facets, images, manifests b. Complete component work that is not blocked on API development (i.e., IIIF Viewer) 2.

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Comet Sprint 45 / Daylight Sprint 17 Review (Jul. 9, 2025 – Jul. 28, 2025)

Summer Workcycle: Sprint 2, July 9-July 28 What were the goals of Comet Sprint 45 / Daylight Sprint 17 * Discovery Prototype (ADRL Lite): * Complete API work for facets, images, manifests * Complete component work that is not blocked on API development (i.e., IIIF Viewer) * Complete new QA & Sandbox environments * Complete core

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Comet Sprint 44 / Daylight Sprint 16 Review (Jun. 18, 2025 – Jul. 7, 2025)

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

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Comet Sprint 43 / Daylight Sprint 15 Review (May 14 – Jun. 2, 2025)

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 43 / Daylight Sprint 15 Daylight: Demo a connected Daylight. Comet: To continue work on core Comet functionality, and getting the new QA and sandbox environments up and running. What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Daylight: Demo a connected Daylight, Comet,

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Comet Sprint 41 / Daylight Sprint 13 / Lark Sprint 16 Review (Apr. 2, 2025 – Apr. 21, 2025)

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 41 / Daylight Sprint 13 / Lark Sprint 16? Daylight: Maturing our components so that they’ll be ready for connectivity in order to get the lifecycle and ecosystem fully presentable and demoable. Lark: Set up Lark and Comet seed data and share JSON-LD serialization

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Comet Sprint 40 / Daylight Sprint 12 / Lark Sprint 15 Review (Feb. 26, 2025 – Mar. 10, 2025)

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 40 / Daylight Sprint 12 / Lark Sprint 15? Comet: We have a number of bugs which have been identified in Bulkrax; we would like to fix these and/or confirm that earlier fixes work. There are a lot of discussions we are hoping to

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Comet Sprint 39 / Daylight Sprint 11 / Lark Sprint 14 Review (Feb. 12, 2025 – Feb. 24, 2025)

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 39/ Daylight Sprint 11/ Lark Sprint 14? Comet: QA Bulkrax bug fixes. Issues around the updates/deletes. Take action on production stability, staging environments decisions, and DevOps-related issues FITS/Kaniko etc). Daylight: Continue to build interactivity between components, focusing on progressive enhancement for

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Comet Sprint 38 / Daylight Sprint 10 / Lark Sprint 13 Review (Jan. 29, 2025 – Feb. 10, 2025)

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 38/ Daylight Sprint 10/ Lark Sprint 13? Comet: We have a number of bugs which have been identified in Bulkrax; we would like to fix these and/or confirm that earlier fixes work. There are a lot of discussions we are hoping to

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Comet Sprint 37 / Daylight Sprint 9 / Lark Sprint 12 Review (Jan. 15, 2025 – Jan. 28, 2025)

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 37/ Daylight Sprint 9/ Lark Sprint 12? Comet: We have a number of bugs which have been identified in Bulkrax; we would like to fix these and/or confirm that earlier fixes work. There are a lot of discussions we are hoping to

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Comet Sprint 35 / Daylight Sprint 7 / Lark Sprint 10 (Aug. 7, 2024 – Aug. 27, 2024)

What were the goals of Comet Sprint 35/ Daylight Sprint 7/ Lark Sprint 10? Daylight: The focus was on component development, particularly components that would make up a clone of the Blacklight demo app. Comet: The primary goal was to enhance the filtering capabilities, improve metadata handling, and optimize performance

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Comet Sprint 32 / Daylight Sprint 4 Review (Mar. 27, 2024 – Apr. 16, 2024)

What was the goal of Comet Sprint 32 / Daylight Sprint 4? Comet: The primary deliverable for this workcycle was to facilitate bulk export functionality in order to begin refining round-tripping procedures. Daylight: To demo a broad infrastructure for building small micro frontends for discovery purposes and gluing them together over

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Comet Sprint 31 / Daylight Sprint 3 Review (Mar. 13, 2024 – Mar. 26, 2024)

What was the goal of Comet Sprint 31 / Daylight Sprint 3? Comet: The primary objective for this workcycle remains consistent: to further refine the bulk export functionality and gather input from stakeholders in order to shift focus to round-tripping procedures. Daylight: The objective was to continue technical discussions and exploratory

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Comet Sprint 29 / Daylight Sprint 1 Review (Feb. 14, 2024 – Feb. 27, 2024)

What was the goal of Comet Sprint 29 / Daylight Sprint 1 Comet: The primary aim was to facilitate bulk export functionality to solicit stakeholder input prior to refining round-tripping procedures. Daylight: The focus was on engaging in technical dialogues and exploratory activities within the team concerning micro frontends for discovery.

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Comet Sprint 28 (Oct 18, 2023 – Nov 7, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 28? Continuing the workcycle’s theme of making the bulk ingest process as substantial as possible, especially through stakeholder feedback What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Ingest of geospatial data and ADRL data in bulk Accomplishments of Sprint 28: * Ensured that

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Comet Sprint 27 (Oct 4, 2023 – Oct 17, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 27? A continuation of making the bulk ingest process as rock solid as possible, especially through stakeholder feedback What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Ingesting geospatial data and ADRL data in bulk. Accomplishments of Sprint 27: * Users can now add and

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Comet Sprint 26 (Sep 20, 2023 – Oct 3, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 26? To continue work on making the bulk ingest process as rock solid as possible. What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Ingesting geospatial data and UCSB's ADRL data in bulk. Accomplishments of Sprint 26 The big thing that happened during this

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Comet Sprint 25 (Sep 6, 2023 – Sep 19, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 25? To make the batch import process as rock solid as possible. Both campuses are very interested in ingesting data into Comet. UCSB is interested in ingesting their ADRL data, and UCSD is interested in supporting geospatial ingest. In general, we are interested in

Shoreline

Comet Shoreline Pipeline MVP - Offcycle Summer 2023

The goal of these two offcycle sprints during the 2023 summer was to get the pipeline for ingesting into Comet and publishing to Shoreline working. We can successfully ingest to Comet and publish to Shoreline!

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Comet Sprint 24 (May 3, 2023 – May 16, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 24? * To complete the work that we had scoped for the new permission structure (Visibility model) for Objects. There are now different levels to choose from, and these permissions are global (i.e they also impact other systems that this object will appear in)

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Comet Sprint 23 (Apr 19, 2023 – May 2, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 23? To continue and complete the critical dependency update work for Comet (Hyrax Ruby 3.2) and to obtain alignment on the baseline stock “Visibility” model for Comet. There is more work to be done to get the Bulkrax Exporter to work, and there

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Comet Sprint 22 (Apr 5, 2023 – Apr 18, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 22? In our last posting, we shared that we wanted to focus our efforts on the Ruby and Rails upgrades for all Surfliner products. The upgrades were completed for Lark, Shoreline, and Starlight, but Comet’s upgrade is still in progress. While there is

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Comet Sprint 21 (Mar 15 - Apr 4, 2023)

What was the goal of Sprint 21? For the first two Surfliner Spring Workcycle sprints, we felt that it was important to work on technical debt and maintenance issues, most especially the Ruby and Rails upgrades for all Surfliner products. For the maintenance tasks, it should be noted that the

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Comet Sprint 20 (Dec 2 – Dec 20, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 20? The goal of this Sprint was to continue work on batch ingest and export, and tying in ingest through Comet into the geospatial platform, Shoreline. Accomplishments of Sprint 20: * Updated the GBL1.0 to Aardvark JSON converter to meet Shoreline needs * Produced a

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Comet Sprint 19 (Nov 16 – Nov 29, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 19? The goal for the overall work cycle is to shore up batch work for ingest and extend it to get batch round trip working so that you can do an export of batch metadata in some format, make changes in the exported format