Core Contributor Check-in: Feb 3 - 16, 2024
Core Contributor Hours
It’s reporting time. Drum roll please…
There was a total of 186 hours of contributions reported, which is about 346 hours less than the previous sprint of 532.75 hours.
The overall checklist response rate was 31% for this sprint, which is a 14% decrease from last sprint.
Summary of Responses
1. Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?
- Needs a reviewer for this PR
- Is still looking for a 2U reviewer for fix: fix _update_subsection_grades when restricted blocks are not cached by asadali145 · Pull Request #33963 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub. It affects grading and caching
- Needs a product review of feat: footer legal links by asadali145 · Pull Request #403 · openedx/frontend-component-footer · GitHub
- Also might need a product review of feat: allowing studio asides for course-authoring MFE by Anas12091101 · Pull Request #452 · openedx/frontend-lib-content-components · GitHub and feat: footer legal links by asadali145 · Pull Request #403 · openedx/frontend-component-footer · GitHub
- Would love feedback on Studio Search Functionality
- Welcomes feedback on the CC survey draft
2. What should we improve? Are there any blockers?
- Finds it difficult to access recordings of meetings she’s unable to attend, and not all of them have meeting notes
- Would like the Listaflow UI to include the BTR or Product Working Groups as options to select (FYI @Fox_Piacenti)
- Is still looking for a 2U reviewer for fix: fix _update_subsection_grades when restricted blocks are not cached by asadali145 · Pull Request #33963 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub. It affects grading and caching
- Had to ask for permission to view the latest Core Product Working Group meeting recording. It would be cool if these were publicly accessible
3. What did you accomplish this sprint?
- Attended and drafted public notes for TOC Meeting
- Met with maintainer volunteers
- Prepared TOC presentation for upcoming Meetup
- Monitored & posted meeting summaries and transcripts with Otter
- Edited small videos from interview for Upstreaming onboarding course
- Recurring:
- Forum moderation
- Reviewed update to openedx events
- Merged PR#34160 about the survey report banner
- Determined list of repos edunext is interested in maintaining
- Attended Maintenance, Large Instances and Campus Working Group meetings
- Completed the CC survey questions, and posted them publicly for community feedback
- Attended the Core Product Working Group Meeting
- Gave feedback on How to submit an open source contribution for Product Review
- Moderated various topics on forum and answered some of them
- Took part in a call with the Open edX Marketing Team and 2024 Conference Coordinators
- Met with Eden to discuss a presentation to sell conference sponsorship
- Reviewed the proposed Midnight Theme by Arbisoft
- Reviewed The Open edX Product Review Process
- Completed the previous sprint’s CC Check-in process and post
- Worked on BTR and Maintainership
- Added more Aspects docs: How-to: dbt packages
- Reviewed and merged a bunch of OSPRs and their backports, including: configuration#7046, edx-platform#33647, edx-platform#33649, edx-platform#34177, edx-ora2#2173, edx-platform#33500
- Started reviewing these OSPRs: edx-ora2#2101, edx-ora2#2025
- Did some planning and preliminary reviews, but not much of note. Has spent more time asking questions this spring than answering them.
4. What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?
- Will continue moderating forum
- Find more information about Maintenance Working Group (FYI @antoviaque)
- Reviews of:
- feat: making lms.djangoapps.ccx AppConfig ready. by alexjmpb · Pull Request #34220 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub
- chore: upgrade xblock-utils to 3.2.0 to support TinyMCE v5 by Anas12091101 · Pull Request #34149 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub
- Update the BulkEmailFlag __str__ function to avoid infinite recursion by Anas12091101 · Pull Request #33901 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub
- Figure out what’s involved in maintainership of GitHub - openedx/edx-notes-api: edx-notes-api
- Put together a presentation to sell Open edX conference sponsorship
- Move the survey questions into Typeform and (maybe) start sending it out to CC’s
- Planning to review GitHub - eduNEXT/platform-plugin-superset , and finish reviewing the OSPRs I’ve grabbed
- Answering issues and blockers for Core Contributor sprints
- Prepare and participate in TOC Panel Meetup
- Conference Planning
- Follow-up on PR delays
- Follow-up on OEP for escalation process to TOC
5. What went well this sprint?
- Met with Xavier and learnt more about Maintenance program
- Lots of progress discussing maintainerships, and transitioning parts from 2U to other community members
- Was able to find lots of OSPRs that needed reviewers!
- Good work planning the Redwood release in advance of the RC (Release Candidate) cut
- Community progress ironing out the Product Review process
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 .