More news from the Contributor Community: July update

Up in the Northern Hemisphere we are well into summer; the time of year where things start to slow down a bit. But not for the contributor communities from the AtoM and Archivematica projects! July was still a busy month, with community development meetings and some contributor milestones being hit.

The AtoM community development meeting had a new attendee and some further accepted contributions to the project. At Artefactual, we are hard at work with the 2.10 release, which will see us upgrading Elasticsearch to 7.10 and deprecating Bootstrap 2. Both are big pieces of work, which the team has been focusing on alongside other work. This includes improving the display of right to left languages in AtoM. The community has also been submitting more translations, and there will be more coverage in 2.10. If you are interested in contributing translations for future releases, please see our instructions here.

At the Archivematica community development meeting, we celebrated a major milestone for a new contributor. Liam Lloyd-Tucker from the Permanent Legacy Foundation had his first contribution to Archivematica accepted. But that wasn’t the only major milestone for Liam: it was his first contribution to an open source project outside of work! Welcome to the community, Liam! And we hope you contribute to open source projects like Archivematica well into the future.

We are also well into the 1.18 release, which involves a major Elasticsearch upgrade to 8.x. Another large part of work for the Archivematica project has been looking at the number of issues we have reported: over 650! This has been making issues triaging complex and lengthy, as well providing a lack of clarity for the contributor community. We have decided to implement a blanket closure of inactive internal issues more than two years old after August 22, 2025. Don’t want an issue to be closed? The best way to have your issue considered and dealt with is to comment on that issue in GitHub. Old issues are difficult to triage with a list this long so get active and comment, comment, comment! You can read more about this in our user forum announcement here. We will be following up with more details, so keep an eye on the user forum!

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If you are interested in joining a future community development meeting, please contact the Community Team at contributors@artefactual.com. 

Part of the user community? We have online user forums, as well as lists of community-run user groups for AtoM and Archivematica.

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