Blacklight 8 Community Sprint Recap

[Nikitas Tampakis]

Dear Blacklight Community,

Our community sprint to prepare the Blacklight 8 release has concluded. Over the course of last week 29 pull requests, 16 edits to the wiki, and 4 release candidates were submitted. Information about upgrading to Blacklight 8, including the status of Blacklight plugins, is included in the Blacklight wiki. The Blacklight 8 release will be discussed and is scheduled to occur after the February 15th committer's call at 2pm Eastern time. Please attend the meeting if you have any feedback.

A big thanks goes out to the 15 participants from 5 institutions who contributed to the sprint by testing the upgrade path from Blacklight 7 to 8, reporting and addressing any encountered issues, reviewing code submissions, and updating documentation. They were:

Columbia University Libraries

Benjamin Armintor

Princeton University Library

Christina Chortaria

Carolyn Cole

Anna Headley

Regine Heberlein

Eliot Jordan

Max Kadel

Ryan Laddusaw

Trey Pendragon

Jane Sandberg

Stanford University Libraries

Christopher Beer

Justin Coyne

Temple University Libraries

David Kinzer

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Michael Kanning

Nikitas Tampakis

Based on the success of this past community sprint, there is interest in scheduling another one later this year to support the plugins and continue sustained maintenance of the Blacklight codebase. More details will be discussed in future committer calls.

Regards,

Nikitas