Contributors Meetup Async Update - March 30th - April 12th , 2024

Core Contributor Check-in: Mar 30th - Apr 12th, 2024


:stopwatch: Core Contributor Hours

There was a total of 281.5 hours of contributions reported this past sprint, including 7.5 hours for Axim. This is 50.5 hours more than the previous sprint of 231 hours.

The overall checklist response rate was 38% for this sprint, which is an 4% increase 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?

@ali_hugo

  • Does anyone know the answer to this question about how MFE footer links will be customized in the updated Studio?

@Dean

  • Welcomes people to join testing the next release! You can post a message in the BTR Slack channel, or in the General Slack channel and tag @pdpinch, or myself.

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

None

3. What did you accomplish this sprint?

@jyliugithub

  • Completed translation for Open edX platform
  • Developed content for BizDev Workshop at the Open edX conference
  • Participated in working group meetings
  • Completed survey for AWS partnership
  • Promoted Open edX Conference across social channels

@Felipe

  • Participated in Large Instances and the community release planning meeting
  • Reviewed the K8s dashboard PR in harmony (68)
  • Reviewed PRs in the context of py3.11, as well as the maintenance of packages I’m maintainer of
  • Investigated the blocker bug for the release about the MFE problem editor not rendering
  • Reviewed the last of the Wordpress PRs for package publication
  • Weighed in on the Frontend Extension Mechanisms conversation

@pdpinch

@Dean

  • Planned a meeting with BTR members to get started testing the next release

@chintan

  • Got three PRs merged

@Cassie

@jill

@ali_hugo

  • Gave UX feedback on the Resetting ORA submissions proposal
  • Tried to perform a product review on #324 (which turns out not to need one)
  • Emailed CC’s to remind them to complete the survey
  • Posted an update on the number of survey responders

@mafermazu

  • Fixed some WordPress plugin issues
  • Fixed a little issue with the tutor-contrib-codejail
  • Assisted and helped with the conference planning

@xitij2000

@farhaanbukhsh

  • Was able to review a few edx-platform PRs and test tutor harmony plugin

@juancamilom

  • Advanced the conversation / proposals in three of the proposed features for Unidigital / Campus Working Group that are to land upstream
  • Followed up with the Marketing Working Group, and prepared for the business development workshop for the conference
  • Worked as Product owner on multiple open source XBlocks being developed by the Unidigital initiative

4. What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?

@Cassie

  • Now that the Graded Discussions Proposal is in the Wiki, I can start the next steps of the Product Review process

@jill

@Dean

  • Manual testing

@mafermazu

  • Make a few minor fixes in the WordPress plugin, participate a little more in discuss and planning a conference webinar

@pdpinch

@chintan

  • Will be on 4 weeks leave from 15th April

5. What went well this sprint?

@chintan

  • Support from maintenance group is great. I needed help with test runs. When I put it forward to the group, someone always helps

@farhaanbukhsh

  • Good amount of planned work

@pdpinch

@jill

@Felipe

  • We found the solution to one of the release blockers

: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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