Core Contributor Check-In: Oct 28 - Nov 11, 2023
Let’s find cool stuff to collaborate on!
This is cool @Felipe says that what went well this sprint is finalizing the delivery of the Wordpress plugin that allows Open edX instances to sell courses using WooCommerce! 
This is a summary of responses for the end-of-sprint check-in. The full report is on Listaflow.
Core Contributor Hours
This sprint we reported 219.25 hours of contributions, which is 3 hours more than the previous sprint of 216.25 hours. It was also reported to be a pretty productive sprint:
However we only achieved 25% response rate. It should be at least 3 times that size, if not 4 
Summary of Responses
1. Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on?
- Would like more feedback on Convert "Pages & Resources" page to a plugin system by bradenmacdonald · Pull Request #638 · openedx/frontend-app-course-authoring · GitHub (“Convert ‘Pages & Resources’ page to a plugin system”).
2. What should we improve? Are there any blockers?
No comments.
3. What did you accomplish this sprint?
- Follow-up and answer questions/items from sprint retros feedback
- Coordination around delegation of OSPRs for busy teams.
- TOC Discussions about elections issues.
- 2 more product proposals submitted and started work on documentation for aspects and dashboards review.
- Reviewed PRs 53 and 59 from the wordpress commerce plugin
- I was sick.
- Completed user interviews about CC processes
- Reviewed some new product proposals
- Attended the Contributors Discussion and UX/UI Working Group Meeting
- Merged PRs for #427 Superset Introspection which add Superset metadata and ClickHouse monitoring charts to the Operator Dashboard.
- Reviewed event-routing-backends#365 and event-routing-backends#366
- Started participating in the Code of Conduct Committee
- Started work on upgrade tutor-ecommerce and tutor-discovery plugins to quince release
- Discovery on upload time improvement of Scorm Xblock in case of S3 backend
4. What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint?
- Planning to do more Aspects and Conduct committee work next sprint.
- Upstreaming MOOC Async Sprint
- OEP for escalation process to TOC - Follow-up
- PR Delays - Follow-up
- See if there are any patterns in the feedback I received during interviews with CC’s. Determine how to share this feedback with the rest of the community so we can work together to come up with solutions.
- To coordinate all the remaining test cases for the Quince test plan and keep informed of GitHub issues blocking the upcoming Quince release.
5. What went well this sprint?
- Finalizing the delivery of the wordpress plugin that allows openedx instances to sell courses using woocommerce
- The Quince testing instance immediately gave errors when we started it up two weeks ago and the team did well to solve the issue, collaboratively: [Quince testing] <add course mode from django admin>: <Getting 403 error while adding course mode from django admin> · Issue #325 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub
- fix: CSRF errors in POST requests to LMS openedx/edx-platform#33727
- A first OSPR is being experimentally delegated by the TNL team to the core contributors
- I got some interesting (and useful!) feedback from CC’s during user interviews…
- John Swope’s CC nomination was successful!
- Sarina has done a great job leading asynchronous discussions to launch the Conduct Committee!
- I’m getting into a good rhythm for Aspects work.
Questions or comments?
Please add any questions or comments you might have below. We’d love to hear from you!