Core Contributor Check-in: Feb 17 - Mar 1, 2024
Core Contributor Hours
Me again, and it’s…
With the flair and energy of this guy 
let me dig into the numbers.
There was a total of 447 hours of contributions reported, which is about 261 hours more than the previous sprint of 186 hours. Nice!
The overall checklist response rate was 47% for this sprint, which is a 16% increase from last sprint.
Summary of Responses
1. Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?
- Asks if there is documentation on xBlock Asides? If not, perhaps the community could write some?
- Asks if xBlock Asides are still used for tagging?
See this discourse post for more information
- Still needs a reviewer for this PR
2. What should we improve? Are there any blockers?
No answers
3. What did you accomplish this sprint?
- Completed the CC survey
- Worked on testing and WIP fixes for platform-plugin-superset
- Updated Aspects docs: openedx-aspects#73
- Reviewed OSPRs: openedx-aspects#193, edx-platform#34199, edx-ora2#2101, edx-ora2#2025
- Answered forum posts 1, 2
- Approved Moises’ CC nomination
- Started attending Maintenance Working Group Meetings
- Asked @feanil and @antoviaque how to become more involved in maintenance
- Moderated forum and changed some topics from ‘Development’ / ‘Community’ to ‘Site Operator’
- Opened my first product roadmap issue: #324
- Started working on a product roadmap issue to go with #452 - which is more of a bug fix than a feature, but since the feature isn’t well documented it seems worth bringing it to product attention
- Worked on a design for an Open edX stand for use at conferences
- Sent the “Improving the Core Contributor Experience” survey to all CC’s
- Attended WG meetings: UX/UI and Core Product
- Worked on a Mandarin translation for the platform
- Joined the Transfex monthly meeting, and Marketing Working Group meeting
- Did content research for the Bizdev workshop at Open edX conference
- Joined the content development discussion for the Bizdev workshop
- Started looking for PRs to review
- Volunteered maintainership for some repos
- Reviewed a PR about the team feature course-authoring #669
- Attended the Large-instances, Contributors and Maintenance WG meetings
- Reviewed PR edx-platform #33952
- Reviewed the ORA2 ADR for extension points
- Filled in the CCs Survey
- Attended the community event in Gather
- Joined the Open edX Meetup
- Recorded and edited the video for Open edX Meetup and Educators Working Group
- Joined the Open edX 2024 Conference meetings
- Joined the Marketing Working Group meeting
- Worked on the Wikipedia update task
- Focused on work related to ORA and grades Improvement for campus based courses (Unidigital)
- Worked on Sponsor Slide Deck for Open edX Conference
- Worked on Open edX Conference Social Media designs
- Worked on Learning Technologies Stand Design
- Joined the CC, UX/UI Working Group Meetings
- Filled out the CC Survey (thank you for putting that together @ali_hugo)
- Completed the last CC Check-in report
- Video Production Post-Meeting Report
- Documentation Planning
4. What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?
- Completing the Social Media Campaign Designs for the Open edX Conference
- Completing the Learning Technologies Stand Design
- Joining the Redwood Release Monthly Planning
- Finish reviewing PR #34220
- Writing a product roadmap issue to go with #452 and #34026
- Creating maintenance plan for edx-notes-api
- Fixing a bug where users are unable to dismiss the upgrade message
- Looking for more PRs to review
- Helping with maintenance
- Continuing to moderate the forum
- Monitoring survey responses and encouraging everyone to complete the survey
- Working on Conference talk preparation
- Maintainership: looking for repos to help with
- Start documenting Aspects scaling #78
5. What went well this sprint?
- Learnt how course block structures collect/transform cycle
- Had a nice review from @arbrandes on #403 (now waiting on product review)
- @feanil and @antoviaque guided me on how to join meetings, and how to contribute
- A number of CC’s have already completed the survey
Questions or comments?
Please add any questions or comments you might have below. We’d love to hear from you!
And if you’d like to take a peek at the full report, see it on Listaflow .