Core Contributor Check-in: Mar 2nd - 15th , 2024
Core Contributor Hours
Before I get to it, we need your help.
All CC’s would have received an email with the subject line: What do you REALLY think about the Core Contributor experience? It would really help us, help you, if you schedule some time to fill it in 
Thanks to those that already have!
Okay, let’s dive into the last sprint:
There was a total of 457 hours of contributions reported, which is about 10 hours more than the previous sprint of 447 hours.
The overall checklist response rate was 45% for this sprint, which is a 2% decrease from last sprint.
Summary of Responses
1. Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?
- Is calling all Core Contributor to answer the survey received via email (subject line: What do you REALLY think about the Core Contributor experience?) Thanks to those of you who have already completed it!
- Would like help understanding the different group processes, but knows this is already a work in progress
2. What should we improve? Are there any blockers?
None
3. What did you accomplish this sprint?
- Joined my first Redwood Release WG
- Completed the Core Contributor Check-in Report and Post
- Worked on the Marketing Learning Technologies Stand
- Created the Open edX Conference Social Media Post Templates
- Reviewed the Product Review Process
- Started a UX review of the Resetting ORA submissions proposal and PR #33712
- Reviewed the Libraries Relaunch proposal
- Posted an update about responses to the CC survey
- Joined meetings: Redwood Release Planning, Maintenance, Large Instances
- Reviewed Studio Home PRs
- Worked on team alignment for Aspects v1
- Nominated Mafer and myself for Maintenance and CC roles of the Woocommerce plugin
- Reviewed PRs
- Asked for CC rights expansion for maintainership of edx-submissions and completion repos
- Migrated eduNEXT’s SupersetXBlock into the new platform-plugin-aspects#7 repo + tutor-contrib-aspects#642
- Reviewed OSPRS edx-platform#34199 (in progress), edx-platform#32216, edx-platform#33717, edx-ora2#2188
- Answered a forum question
- Started work on our Aspects v1 conference talk
- Started working on Aspects scaling documentation
- Continued improving the openedx-wordpress-ecommerce plugin
- Reviewed some PRs
- Worked on a Wiki page entry
- Worked on conference planning
- Worked on marketing tasks
- Worked with other providers to prepare the talk Efficient Project Kickstart: Streamlining Open edX Environment Setup with Configuration Templates
- Planned for April Session around Libraries Create Documentation working plan
- Raised two new PRs
- Raised two new issues, and was able to get a solution for one of them from frontend community
- Attended more meetings compared to last sprint
4. What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?
- Merge bugfix: Update the BulkEmailFlag str function to avoid infinite recursion
- Review: Chore Cleanup
- Planning to backfill documentation, examples, and demos of xBlock Asides, in support of restoring functionality to Studio in the new MFE
- Finalizing the Marketing Learning Technologies Stand
- Reviewing the Conference website and making UI suggestions
- Progress on Aspects scaling documentation
- Maintenance, forum moderating, and meetings
5. What went well this sprint?
- Got support from community members
- Quicker response rates compared to usual on my PR
- Finding the process for performing product reviews slowly less confusing
- 20% of Core Contributors completed the CC survey
- Aspects is a delight to work on!
- Learnt few things like: why not to expose django users in xblocks, and what to do while updating xblocks to python 3.12
- Coordination on Redwood release continues to be useful
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 .