Contributors Meetup Async Update - April 18th, 2023 - May 2nd, 2023

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Is there anything where you could use help from others? Or that you would like to collaborate on? User
#### Featuer toggles/naming
We need to set some clear strategy for naming toggles/settings, while looking if we are already have something I came across OEP-17 OEP-17: Feature Toggles — Open edX Proposals 1.0 documentation

But it doesn’t mention naming of a settings/toggle.

An example of inconsistency can be: Incosisttency of configuration names between LMS and MFEs:
- In MFEs uses SITE_NAME while LMS uses PLATFORM_NAME
- The settings of that points the account MFE:
- In MFEs it’s ACCOUNT_SETTINGS_URL while in LMS it’s ACCOUNT_MICROFRONTEND_URL
- Check this issue for learner-dashboard vs learner-home Rename this repo to learner-home · Issue #140 · openedx/frontend-app-learner-dashboard · GitHub


I think it would be better; (before or instead of reoslving each of theses examples above) to have guide/how to layed out i.e. ammending OEP-17 or any doc, so that in the future when creating a new toggle/settings, developer would be recommend to check the guide…


#### Github action to auto backport
I am suggesting to use a github action to auto backport commits/branch to a release branch, I will mention this in the next BTR metting 1.5.2023. For more context and/or if you are intrested or have a though please attend or comment on the agena wiki page: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3739287561/2023-05-01+Meeting+notes.

Ghassan Maslamani
Adding action items to follow-up on the topics from the town hall: Community Town Hall: What Are Our Action Items? - if we each take even something small, we can move a lot of things. Xavier Antoviaque
After 1 week, Palm testing is now 47% complete with 5 weeks to go. If anyone would like to join us for the rest of the testing, let us know! Dean Mathew
Retrospective - Improvements User
As usual, time and focus are in short supply. Peter Pinch
Retrospective - What went well these last two weeks / sprint? User
So happy to see the enthusiasm and momentum pick up for OARS! Specifically, we had a well-attended data working group, and I’m thrilled to see Cristhian Garcia and Maria Grimaldi from eduNEXT donating some devOps time. Fantastic! Jill Vogel
- good communication with Axim and 2U product folks about Palm features. Still needs to be aggregated and written into the release notes PR. Peter Pinch
The campus project and the OARS project are getting so much good work. Felipe Montoya
The opportunity to watch a user interview gave me some valuable insights into the edX platform from a user’s point-of-view; this is very helpful for the Content Tagging project I’m working on Ali Hugo
The good energy brought up by the conference is still very visible - it’s good to see the activity. @antoviaque
What did you accomplish in the last two weeks (aka “current sprint”)? (Optional) User
Advances in the conversation about changes to the open edX sandbox.
Final reviews to the promotional video about open edX
Advancements in the joint efforts of the campus working group.
participation in the monthly meetup
starting the planning for the participation in the emoocs conference in june
Juan Montoya
Nothing much other than working group meeting and some minor tweaks to PR before merging it. Zia Fazal
Tasks:
- Review draft survey about CC processes - Obtain feedback & iterate on core sprint checkins & retros · Issue #95 · openedx/wg-community · GitHub
- TOC - Review meeting notes & draft Feb summary - Write public summaries for TOC meetings · Issue #94 · openedx/wg-community · GitHub

Recurring:
- Help with answers to core sprints checkins & bring up items in synchronous meeting - Contributor's Meetup 2023-04-18 · Issue #93 · openedx/wg-community · GitHub
- Meetings working groups: Campus, Large instances DevOps, Product
- Review forums
Xavier Antoviaque
- Attended a user interview run by Ben Piscopo from 2U
- Worked on a second draft of a survey to evaluate CC processes
- Attended the Product Working Group Meetup and spoke a bit about the goals brainstorming session we help in Boston
Ali Hugo
- Went through all the Olive tests and added/removed a few test cases to prepare for Palm. - Organised a presentation from XIM University for the next Open edX® Meetup in May. - Browsed the Forum and Slack and replied to people where I could. Dean Mathew
Started a draft PR for the Palm Release notes, at Palm Release Notes by pdpinch · Pull Request #321 · openedx/docs.openedx.org · GitHub Peter Pinch
- Participated in the large instances working group meeting
- Participated in the openedx for campus group meeting
- maintenance of events and filters
- product discovery work on the campus roadmap
- product discovery work on the woocomerce plugin for openedx
- reviewed the ADR-19 for paragon
- moved forward with edunext participation in the OARS project
Felipe Montoya
BTR related stuff: checked current opened issues for palm, suggested a solution for some, commented on others
- [TC_AUTHOR_87] > Enable/disable Progress page · Issue #278 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub
- Unable to enable the discussion forum in palm demo instance · Issue #269 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub
- Reolved at
- feat: upgrade to palm by ghassanmas · Pull Request #22 · overhangio/tutor-forum · GitHub
- feat: enable forum plugin by ghassanmas · Pull Request #26 · overhangio/openedx-release-demo · GitHub
- Account link in User dropdown is failing on the Course pages · Issue #268 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub
- Suggested fix need review at fix: Add account url in dynamic config by ghassanmas · Pull Request #121 · overhangio/tutor-mfe · GitHub


Other related to plam
- Open a PR to resolve issue learner-dashboard fix: force LMS url to reload when changed by ghassanmas · Pull Request #136 · openedx/frontend-app-learner-dashboard · GitHub needs review
- Made upstream fix/ for cs_comments_service feat: allow to use two arm arch by ghassanmas · Pull Request #411 · openedx/cs_comments_service · GitHub needs review
Ghassan Maslamani
Was on leave most of this sprint, so didn’t do much :slight_smile: Jill Vogel
Work on Maintainers group, events planning, reviewing translations Gabriel D’Amor
Attended meetup of Build Test Release Working Group.
Attended part of the meetup of the Translation Working Group.
Ran 33 tests from the Open edX Palm Test Sheet.
Watched the Open edX 2023 lightning presentation on commerce coordinator and attended the meetup of the commerce coordinator project on 4/26.
Watched the Open edX 2023 presentation on OARS and privately send Brian Mesick and Jillian Vogel a few questions about it since we want to replace Insights.
Skimmed through Discourse and Slack.
Pierre Mailhot
What will you work on for during the next two weeks / sprint? (Optional)
I’m over budget for CC work from the last couple months of OARS dev and conference prep, so will be just attending data working group meetings and helping out quickly where I can. Jill Vogel
- Palm Release Notes
- Palm testing
Peter Pinch
- Attending 2U’s Interview affinity mapping session to review the feedback from the user interviews
- Finishing the 2nd draft of the CC processes survey
Ali Hugo
- Wiki spring clean - TOC pages
- Write draft OEP for escalation process to TOC
- Contributors WG - Groom github board & tickets
- Upstreaming course - Prepare next sprint
Xavier Antoviaque
- Follow up on the opened PRs, attend some WGs meetings Ghassan Maslamani
put forward a proposal for an upcoming project in the MWG.
engage in the preparations for participating in the emoocs event in Postdam, DE.
Juan Montoya
Coordinating Palm testing along with the test team to get it over the line on time. Dean Mathew
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