Core Contributor Check-in: Mar 16th - 29th, 2024
Core Contributor Hours
There was a total of 231 hours of contributions reported this past sprint, which is about 226 hours less than the previous sprint of 457 hours.
The overall checklist response rate was 34% for this sprint, which is an 11% decrease from last sprint.
Summary of Responses
1. Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?
- Can anyone confirm if learners are having issues unenrolling, or if this is a configuration mistake? See this issue.
2. What should we improve? Are there any blockers?
- Suggests leveraging formal calendar invites, and a formal meeting note structure for all WG meetings.
3. What did you accomplish this sprint?
- Made progress on PRs. @feanil was able to help determine that the 3.12 python upgrade is not suitable for all python repos. Instead 3.11 will be used for many of them.
- Joined more WG meetings, and gave input in some of them.
- Moderated the forum - moved some topics and deleted some spam posts.
- Developed content for the Open edX conference BizDev workshop.
- Translation work for the on Open edX platform.
- Progressed on Aspects scaling documentation: openedx-aspects#214
- Started maintaining edx-submissions and completion repos.
- Reviewed edx-platform#32627 & backport, tutor-contrib-aspects#666, & platform-plugin-aspects#15, edx-platform#34377, edx-ora2#2182 (with author).
- Product review on the UX update to the Resetting ORA submissions proposal.
- Attended Core Product Meeting.
- Worked on the talk @Cassie and I are presenting at the conference in July.
- Reviewed some PRs and left comments on a few.
- Reviewed the Teams to Content Groups connection PR.
- Participated in Large Instances and Maintainers WG meetings.
- Reviewed the outstanding PR in the WooCommerce adaptor.
- Started planning for the Paragon design tokens project.
- Was on leave last week, but worked on these topics:
- Contributor Meetup and Coordination board update.
- Meeting transcripts - getting Otter support to activate email warnings, testing Fireflies.
- Review and moderating forum.
- Reviewed a couple of edx-platform PRs (34358 & 34387) Reviewed couple of xblock PRs. (32& 68) Reviewed an ERB PR
- Began Core Contributor training.
- Reviewed material for upcoming conference.
- Product Review for Libraries Relaunch
- Created Core Contributor Check-in Report
- Worked on conference talk with @ali_hugo
- Completed the Learning Technologies Stand Design
- Designed the Open edX Conference Social media Adverts including Ambassador posts
- Planned webinar to be shown at the conference.
4. What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?
- Implementing and documenting Aspects scaling options.
- Merge chore: fixed typos by CodeWithEmad · Pull Request #482 · openedx/docs.openedx.org · GitHub (if someone else doesn’t).
- Deal with md4 openssl incompatibility, probably by merging fix: replaced md4 with blake2b by Anas12091101 · Pull Request #34442 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub.
- A few tickets lined up for Harmony and frontend-app-gradebook repo.
- Complete the 3 PRs I raised, and make them 3.11 instead of 3.12.
- If time permits will take up some new work.
- I have very limited hours for CC work in April, so I will be focussing on any pressing items that may come up.
5. What went well this sprint?
- Community support was great, despite being new to these meetings and work, it’s always inclusive.
- I’m excited about the collaboration between BTR, Product WG and dev teams on the Redwood release. It seems like we will have a lot of interesting new features.
- Good push to get stale PRs reviewed, thank you @Michelle_Philbrick!
- I started following up on the Frontend WG, and was willing to work on Harmony.
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 .