Blended development BD-43 project updates

[regis (Régis Behmo)]

As some of you know, edX launched a Blended Development project (BD-43) in September to accelerate the development of new features in Tutor. This is tremendously useful, because it gives me time to support the community and develop new, free features in Tutor core.

@e0d is my project lead on BD-43, and he suggested that I post my project updates in a public space. Thus I’ll post here progress reports at the beginning of every sprint, every two weeks or so. If you have questions feel free to add them right here

[regis (Régis Behmo)]

2021-08-31T22:00:00Z → 2021-09-16T22:00:00Z

• Respond to the many unanswered questions asked during the summer holidays on the Tutor forums
• Get tutor core to work on the master branch (“edge/nightly” branch)
• Get the Learning MFE to work on the edge/nightly branch to unblock Support for the Learning MFE · Issue #81 · openedx/build-test-release-wg · GitHub

2021-09-19T22:00:00Z → 2021-09-30T22:00:00Z

• Reach an agreement on the Tutor Edge TEP: Tutor Enhancement Proposals (TEPs) - Overhang.IO
• Get Tutor to work in unprivileged containers, both locally and in Kubernetes Running Tutor containers in unprivileged mode - Tutor - Overhang.IO

[regis (Régis Behmo)]

2021-10-03T22:00:00Z → 2021-10-21T22:00:00Z

I expect to be working on the following items:

• Use Tutor as a development environment for MFEs, and in particular the Profile MFE: Support for the Profile MFE · Issue #28 · openedx/build-test-release-wg · GitHub Addressing this issue is actually part of my duties as a core committer and member of the BTR working group (which this blended development project does not cover), but I volunteered to tackle it because I thought it would be a good test case of Tutor as an MFE development environment.
• Write a TEP to get rid of the Nginx container in Tutor deployments Why Caddy + Nginx? - Tutor - Overhang.IO

[regis (Régis Behmo)]

Previous sprint notes

• Caddy/Nginx TEP: TEP: Get rid of the nginx container - Tutor Enhancement Proposals (TEPs) - Overhang.IO
• Improve development on MFE: fix: actually make it possible to run in development by regisb · Pull Request #19 · overhangio/tutor-mfe · GitHub

I also worked on the following items:

• getting the open-release/maple.master branch to work on Tutor: feat: upgrade to Maple by regisb · Pull Request #509 · overhangio/tutor · GitHub
• migrating the forum code to a separate plugin, thanks to the work of @ghassan: GitHub - overhangio/tutor-forum
• testing the Codejail plugin by eduNEXT (which rocks )

2021-10-24T22:00:00Z → 2021-11-04T23:00:00Z

During this sprint we will remain focused on MFE development:

• Make it possible to override translations (see issue)
• Improve MFE image build time, as discussed here
• Facilitate MFE branding, as proposed by @BbrSofiane here

Also, we will start the process of migrating Tutor plugins to the Maple release. Volunteers are welcome! It would be great if some people could handle the migration of some plugins. Contributors should basically follow the process described here. I’ll write a more detailed post to organise the upgrades. In the meantime, if you are interested, just send me a personal message.

[regis (Régis Behmo)]

Previous sprint notes

• Custom MFE translations and faster build time: Custom i18n translations (and other minor improvements) by regisb · Pull Request #22 · overhangio/tutor-mfe · GitHub
• MFE branding is in progress: see this issue and this PR by @BbrSofiane
• We kickstarted the migration to Maple: Preparing for the Maple release 🍁 - Maintainers - Overhang.IO

2021-11-07T23:00:00Z → 2021-11-18T23:00:00Z

This update is past due, as I am writing this close to the end of the sprint, during which I focused mostly on the Maple upgrade: Preparing for the Maple release 🍁 - Maintainers - Overhang.IO
Volunteers have stepped up to upgrade some of the Tutor plugins, which is awesome Issues are being reported to the BTR group: Issues · openedx/build-test-release-wg · GitHub