Core Contributor Sprint Retro - 18 February 2023 - 04 March 2023

[jalondonot (Jorge Londoño)]

Async Update - Contributors meetup

February 21, 2023 - March 8, 2023

According to the Contributors’ Meetup Refactoring post, here you have the first Core Contributors async update!

1. Working Groups Updates

Working Groups Calendar

Marketing Working Group

• Chair: @Eden_Huthmacher
• Headlines:
  • MWG Conference Presentation: Waiting for the draft to provide feedback.
  • How-to-videos: Recording logistics - Discussion for (Intro, Outro, transition) slides design
  • Brainstorming Session: For increasing global awareness because of the transition from edX to tCRIL
• Meeting notes:
  • Trello
• Project board
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Is there anything you would like to add here, @Eden_Huthmacher @estebanetcheverry?

DevOps Working Group

• Chair: @regis
• Headlines
  • Collecting feedback on Docker image build time
  • The “contrib” plugin index is now acepting contributions: GitHub - overhangio/tpi
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Do you maintain a Tutor plugin that you want to share with the world? Share it in the contrib index.

BTR Working Group

• Chair: @jalondonot
• Headlines:
  • Open edX release schedule.
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Could anyone from the product WG work along with @pdpinch on the Open edX release notes?
  • Needs @sarina and @Eden_Huthmacher help to make sure the Open edX Conference schedule includes the combined DevOps’ WGs meeting.
• Meeting notes:
  • 2023-03-06 BTR Meeting notes
• Project board

DevEx Working Group

• Chair: @Rebecca_S_Graber & @kmccormick
• Headlines:
  • Demos: Tutor Patch listing, Plugin to add Kafka to Tutor Code here
  • If you are interested or have feedback about Process edx-platform assets without Paver here’s an ADR: Write edx-platform ADR for Paver-free asset processing · Issue #31605 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub
  • FYI A minimal Open edX distribution?
• Meeting notes:
  • 2023-03-07 DevExp Meetup Notes
  • https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/37
• Project board
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Is there anything you would like to add here, @Rebecca_S_Graber , @kmccormick ?

Large Instances Working Group

• Chair: @braden & @felipe
• Headlines:
  • Demos: Tutor Patch listing, Plugin to add Kafka to Tutor Code here
  • If you are interested or have feedback about Process edx-platform assets without Paver here’s an ADR: Write edx-platform ADR for Paver-free asset processing · Issue #31605 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub
  • FYI A minimal Open edX distribution?
• Meeting notes:
  • Notes & recordings
• Project board
  - Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Is there anything you would like to add here, @braden, @Felipe?

Frontend Working Group

• Chair: @arbrandes
• Headlines:
  • Modular MFE Domains https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3614900241/FC-0007±+Modular+MFE+Domains+Discovery
  • Conference working group meeting
  • FED-BOM plans to coordinate the upgrade, following the draft guidelines in Upgrade Project Runbook
  • Node 16 → 18 Bringing forward the End-of-Life Date for Node.js 16 | Node.js
  • Reviewing and updating OEP-11 https://open-edx-proposals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/best-practices/oep-0011-bp-FED-technology.html
• Meeting notes:
  • 2023-03-02 Frontend Working Group Meeting Minutes
• Project board

Data Working Group

• Chair: @e0d & @blarghmatey
• Headlines:
  • Open edX Con 2023: Data working group meetup
  • Project updates:
    • OARS
    • REDIS bus funded contributions
    • GA4 funded contribution
• Meeting notes:
  • 2023-02-22 Data WG Meeting notes
  • 2023-03-08 Data WG Meeting notes
• Project board
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Is there anything you would like to add here, @e0d, @blarghmatey ?

DEPR Working Group

• Headlines:
  • Open edX Conference
  • Pavelib:
    • About half of it was already replaced/replicated with Makefile/shell scripts
    • Some cleanup already happening (yay!)
    • Toughest part of this is JS tests and Assets
  • MFE tickets for progress page and learner dashboard
• Meeting notes:
  • DEPR Meeting Notes (2023)
  • https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/9/views/4
• Project board
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Is there anything you would like to add here, @feanil ?

Product Working Group

• Chair: @jmakowski
• Headlines:
  • Open edX Conference Topics: In-person Working Group meeting ideas
  • Product Review of OSPRs
    • New process to:
      • All PRs that require Product Review will have a Feature Ticket created on the Open edX Roadmap. All product review will happen on these Feature Tickets, here.
      • Tickets currently “ready for product review” can be picked up for review
  • Product Review owner + expert directory: Product PR Review: Directory
• Meeting notes:
  • 2023-02-28 - Product Working Group Notes and Agenda
• Project board
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Is there anything you would like to add here, @jmakowski ?

TOC

• From @antoviaque:
  “For now, I can mention that we are working with @abstract-technology and @sampaccoud on an iteration to the election rules. There are also preparations for a town hall discussion between the TOC members and the rest of the community during the upcoming conference. The next TOC meetings should be at the conference and then a formal one in April.”

Mantainers

• Open edX Maintainer’s Program
• 2023-02-23 Maintainers’ Meeting notes
• Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
  • Is there anything you would like to add here, @sarina, @e0d?

2. Events

• Shaping the Future of Education Together – Open edX Conference 2023
• Open edX Conference schedule
• The Open edX Maintainer’s Program, New Features & Open Source Integrations Meetup will be on April 27th, 2023 at 10 AM (EDT)

3. Projects

Would anyone like to highlight any new or ongoing projects?

4. Next async update and meetup

• Monday March 20th - Update async here!
• Tuesday March 21th - Join the meetup here!
  • Details and draft agenda on the GitHub board

Please reply to this post with any questions or comments you may have!