# Contributors Meetup Async Update - September 30th, 2023 - October 13th, 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Contributors\ **Tags:** core-sprints, retrospective\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contributors-meetup-async-update-september-30th-2023-october-13th-2023/11413 "2023-10-13T04:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Dean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/dean/32/4787_2.png) [@Dean](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Dean)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contributors-meetup-async-update-september-30th-2023-october-13th-2023/11413/2 "2023-10-20T17:11:05Z")
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: ![Screen Shot 2023-10-21 at 00.06.17](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/1/1104fa7f020d26299f94896f447767ce16a87bca.png) Productivity got low scores this month so let’s aim to improve on this metric this next sprint! 🙂 ![Screen Shot 2023-10-20 at 23.46.47](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/6/6866f2020488b1098a0d86e38a20373097b5f7fa.png) Compared this to the average scores over the last year which are higher: ![Screen Shot 2023-10-21 at 00.05.13](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/a/a8a13a553a68670494075fbc31efa5433cb283f4.png) | 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.](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/debugging-persistent-grade-issues/11155/5.) | Peter Pinch | | — | — | | 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](https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/19/views/25) 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](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/debugging-persistent-grade-issues/11155/5) | 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](https://superset.aspects-beta.openedx.org/superset/dashboard/instructor-dashboard-en/) in aspects. Reviewed a ERB [PR](https://github.com/openedx/event-routing-backends/pull/352). Reviewed a SCORM xblock [issue](https://github.com/overhangio/openedx-scorm-xblock/issues/42) 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 [GitHub · Where software is built](https://github.com/openedx/wg-community/issues/85.) Onboarding courses - Upstreaming - Meeting & plan (sprint next week, publication of course on FUN). | Xavier Antoviaque | | — | — | | 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.](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](https://github.com/edly-io/h5pxblock). Created a file upload optimization [PR](https://github.com/overhangio/openedx-scorm-xblock/pull/46) 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](https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/33310.) 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](https://github.com/openedx/tutor-contrib-aspects/issues/427) | Jill | | What went well this sprint? | User | | --- | --- | | Great feedback on [Side effects of Old Mongo Removal](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/side-effects-of-old-mongo-removal/11286) | 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 | --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contributors-meetup-async-update-september-30th-2023-october-13th-2023/11413)._