Core Contributor Check-in: Jun 8th - Jun 21st, 2024
As we say in South Africa… Howzit guys, I can’t believe it’s almost time for a lekker, jol in South Africa! See some of you in South Africa next week 
Core Contributor Hours
There was a total of 244 hours of contributions reported this past sprint. This is 6 hours more than the previous sprint of 238 hours.
The overall checklist response rate was 39% for this sprint.
Summary of Responses
1. Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?
- Will be looking for feedback on the testing plan used for Redwood
2. What should we improve? Are there any blockers?
- Please add the “Large Instances Working Group” to the “Select the working groups you participated in this sprint” question on the survey? cc. @Fox_Piacenti
3. What did you accomplish this sprint?
- Worked on PRs
- Fixed DemoX Broken URL in Javascript Problem Type Documentation: Sorting migration issues
- Conference organization: primarily Release Testing Operator Release Notes
- Readwood Release!
- Assisted with security patch for Redwood
- Worked on conference talks
- Contributed to arch discussions for new libraries work
- Joined large instances meeting
- Joined deprecation WG meeting
- Reviewed the xblock filtering PRs at platform and filters by 2U
- Reviewed filters auto generating docs PR
- Coming back from vacation, so mostly catching up, and some forum review
- Tested & approved fix: Fix course-overviews sink not ordering blocks correctly by bmtcril · Pull Request #59 · openedx/platform-plugin-aspects · GitHub, feat: Add command to generate a dbt exposures file by bmtcril · Pull Request #851 · openedx/tutor-contrib-aspects · GitHub
- Submitted & merged PRs to demonstrate extending Axim: feat: adds xApiTransforms for completion aggregator events by pomegranited · Pull Request #205 · open-craft/openedx-completion-aggregator · GitHub, Add tracking logs by pomegranited · Pull Request #206 · open-craft/openedx-completion-aggregator · GitHub, Pull requests · open-craft/dbt-completion-aggregator · GitHub
- Read and replied on Add ability to perform accuracy checks / repair sink data · Issue #843 · openedx/tutor-contrib-aspects · GitHub
- Maintenance on edx-submissions, completion including applying changes from Workflow Default Updates
- Closed CC nominations successfully for Braden (extension) and Christofer (new CC)
- Continued work on adding more TypeScript typings to Paragon, various other small frontend improvements
- Spent some time on pymongo
- Explored the deprecations warnings specifically django-storages
- Currently exploring switching all APIs to use DRF with standard Auth classes
4. What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?
- Looking forward to seeing many of you in person at the conference in Stellenbosch!
- Aspects documentation
- Conference!
- Switch APIs to be using DRF with standard Auth classes
- Figure out how to proceed with this bug fix PR
- Return to working on feat: xblock asides view for rendering in an iframe in MFE
- Do some retrospecting on the Redwood release, especially the testing plan
5. What went well this sprint?
- Everyone on BTR! Shout out to Chris P for great work on release notes, María G for diligent testing coordination work, and Max for fearless leadership of the processes
- My CC onboarding process is completed!
- Redwood Release!
Questions or comments?
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