Thank you @Natalia_Choconta this is great to have!
Here is the latest Core Contributors retrospective.
Cc: @antoviaque
Time contributed
In the last month (i.e. 2 sprints) a total of 372.25 hours has been reported with a median of 10 hours contributed. Only 30% of Core Contributors responded. Let’s look at our response rates since June 2022:
Productivity got low scores this month so let’s aim to improve on this metric this next sprint! 
Compared this to the average scores over the last year which are higher:
| Do you need any help? Or is there anything you’d like to collaborate on? | User |
|---|---|
| Grading troubles: https://discuss.openedx.org/t/debugging-persistent-grade-issues/11155/5. |
Peter Pinch |
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| We still have stuck PRs - looking for core contributors who would be willing to offer to review (we will discuss with the maintainers/reviewers who can’t review, to see if that can be delegated). See Contributions · GitHub for the list of current stuck PRs. | Xavier Antoviaque |
| What should we improve? Any blockers? | User |
|---|---|
| It is still hard to get more contributors involved in the product conversations in a timely manner. | Juan Montoya |
| What did you accomplish this month? | User |
|---|---|
| Stumbled onto one cause of our persistent grading problems: Debugging persistent grade issues - #5 by pdpinch | Peter Pinch |
| Attended the Core Product Working Group. Gave feedback on the _Feature Enhancement Proposal: Hide Sections from course outline. Joined in on the conversation about the organisation switcher on Studio Home. |
Ali Hugo |
| Participated in the Frontend WG meeting where we agreed on some action points to help get the design-tokens/css vars landing in master during the remaining Q. Reviewed PRs: 33059, 33219. Reviewed and presented the work of the woocommerce project. |
Felipe Montoya |
| Translated and reviewed strings for fr_CA in Transifex for edx-platform and openedx-translations. Browsed Slack and DIscourse. Attended Build-Test-Release Working Group meetup. Attended Translations Working Group meetup. |
Pierre Mailhot |
| Reviewed instructor dashboard in aspects. Reviewed a ERB PR. Reviewed a SCORM xblock issue and tried to reproduce it. |
Zia Fazal |
| Reviewed the LTI MVP spec and left comments. Started work on the Open edX 2024 branding concepts.TOC - Bi-monthly meeting. TOC - Write draft report for publication. PR Delays - Review & respond ticket Issues · openedx/wg-coordination · GitHub Onboarding courses - Upstreaming - Meeting & plan (sprint next week, publication of course on FUN). |
Xavier Antoviaque |
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| Attended the large instances meeting. Reviewed the Woocommerce Plugin for open edX and published it to the wordpress directory. Wrote the proposal for handling flexible groups using the teams feature: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3885334531/Enhancements+to+Teams+to+make+learner+grouping+more+flexible. Reviewed the status of the RBAC project in the context of the flexible groups initiative. Reported issue in aspects about the retirement process. |
Felipe Montoya |
| On vacation from October 7 to October 16. Translated and reviewed some strings for fr_CA in edx-platform and openedx-translations. Attended Build-Test-Release WG meeting. Attended Open edX Contrubutors Discussion. |
Pierre Mailhot |
| Reviewed 3 PRs and published new release of H5P Xblock. Created a file upload optimization PR in SCORM xblock. |
Zia Fazal |
| I’ve been doing product owning work for a number of ORA improvement proposals as part of the campus wg agenda. | Juan Montoya |
| Reviewed the LTI MVP spec and left comments. Started work on the Open edX 2024 branding concepts. |
Cassie |
| What do you plan to work on in the upcoming sprint? | User |
|---|---|
| Attend Build-Test-Release Working Group meetup (Oct 2). Attend Open edX Contributors Discussion (Oct 3). Translate and review strings for fr_CA in Transifex for edx-platform and openedx-translations. Testing Tutor v16.1.2 on our fork of Palm.2. Away on vacation from Oct 7 to Oct 15. Most probably testing quince.master (when the test server is made available) and palm.3 on our fork (when available). Translate and review some strings for fr_CA in edx-platform and openedx-translations. Attend Build-Test-Release WG meeting. Attend Translations WG meeting. Probably attend DevX WG meeting. |
Pierre Mailhot |
| Training my replacement for BTR release notes expert. Testing Quince release candidate. Testing LTI PR: Sign in to GitHub · GitHub Improve documentation of rate limiting on bulk mail. |
Peter Pinch |
| Presenting the progress for copy/pasting a unit during the UX/UI meeting. Working towards a decision about the org switcher on the Studio Home. |
Ali Hugo |
| Core sprints - Help answers questions / unblock. Onboarding Course (Upstreaming) - Test video editing, participate in upcoming remote sprint day. Core sprint report - Review redesign. OEP for escalation process to TOC.Reply. |
Xavier Antoviaque |
| Keep working on ORA improvement proposals. | Juan Montoya |
| Feat: Superset introspection · Issue #427 · openedx/tutor-contrib-aspects · GitHub | Jill |
| What went well this sprint? | User |
|---|---|
| Great feedback on Side effects of Old Mongo Removal | Peter Pinch |
| There was a lot of good communication about elements of UX that apply to various projects being worked on in the community. | Ali Hugo |
| I feel the process for proosing new product features is progressively taking shape | Juan Montoya |
| The pile of stuck PR has diminished quite a bit! Kudos to Michelle and Tim for the work, and to the reviewers who pushed them through. Almost fully caught up from vacations - if you are waiting for something from me, let me know! |
Xavier Antoviaque |