Contributors Meetup Async Update - February 3rd - February 16th, 2024

Core Contributor Check-in: Feb 3 - 16, 2024

:stopwatch: 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.

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Summary of Responses

1. Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?

@antoviaque

  • Is calling for more maintainers! See this and this post for more information

@Zia.Fazal

  • Needs a reviewer for this PR

@pdpinch

@ali_hugo

2. What should we improve? Are there any blockers?

@ali_hugo

  • Finds it difficult to access recordings of meetings she’s unable to attend, and not all of them have meeting notes

@pdpinch

@Cassie

  • 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?

@antoviaque

  • 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

@Felipe

  • 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

@ali_hugo

@Zia.Fazal

  • Reviewed ERB PR
  • Created PR in edx-platform to enable EnrollmentService for xblock runtimes

@chintan

  • Moderated various topics on forum and answered some of them

@Cassie

  • 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

@mgmdi

  • Worked on BTR and Maintainership

@jill

@pdpinch

  • 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?

@chintan

  • Will continue moderating forum
  • Find more information about Maintenance Working Group (FYI @antoviaque)

@pdpinch

@Cassie

  • Put together a presentation to sell Open edX conference sponsorship

@ali_hugo

  • Move the survey questions into Typeform and (maybe) start sending it out to CC’s

@jill

@antoviaque

  • 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?

@chintan

  • Met with Xavier and learnt more about Maintenance program

@antoviaque

  • Lots of progress discussing maintainerships, and transitioning parts from 2U to other community members

@jill

  • Was able to find lots of OSPRs that needed reviewers!

@pdpinch

  • Good work planning the Redwood release in advance of the RC (Release Candidate) cut

@ali_hugo

  • Community progress ironing out the Product Review process

:speech_balloon: 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 .

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