Core Contributor Check-in: Oct 11th - 25th, 2024
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Core Contributor Hours
There was a total of 216 hours of contributions reported this past sprint with a 31% response rate.
Summary of Responses
Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?
- Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Summit to Enhance the Core Contributor Experience! If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: Watch the Summit Recording. We have a two-week period for community feedback from October 22 to November 5, 2024. I encourage everyone to share your questions, comments, and suggestions on each of the proposals. Your insights will help shape the future of our community. Once the feedback period concludes, we’ll begin the voting process.
- We need more eyes on edx-platform PR 35655# which attempts to address the issues we’ve been seeing with corrupted caches affecting the progress page.
What did you accomplish this sprint?
- Started cleaning PR in grade book repo
- Handled and reviewed a few upstream PR for different MFEs
- Fixed some tutor bugs.
- Answered some questions in discuss.openedx.org
- Contributed to upstream projects of Aspects: Superset and Flask App Builder
- Participated (async) in the CC program summit – some really great proposals there!
- Attended Maintenance WG meeting
- Participated in Summit for CC Experience
- Reviewed architecture documents for the extension story
- We have a release candidate for Sumac!
- I coordinated and managed the The Summit to Enhance the Core Contributor Experience!
What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?
- Upgrade tutor-wordpress plugin to make using Wordpress with OpenedX organizations more seamless
- Continue reviewing tutor meilisearch PRs
- Regular repo maintenance
- More SASS to CSS conversions of builtin blocks
What went well this sprint?
- Review PRs from Regis to replace Elasticsearch with Meilisearch in Tutor core - he’s done such a great job
- Adding an edx-search backend for Meilisearch for course content indexing
- Replacing cs_comments_service Ruby forum with a python version in tutor-forum v2
- Coordinating with community release planning and with build-test-release
- On vacation
- Great set of proposals and constructive atmosphere at the Contributors Summit
Questions or comments?
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