Core Contributor Sprint Retro: 2023-05-27 - 2023-06-10

Working Groups Contributor Coordination
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Contributors meetup Async Update

May 31st, 2023 - June 23rd, 2023

Welcome to our Core Contributors async update!

1. Working Groups Updates

Working Groups Calendar :calendar:

BTR Working Group

Data Working Group

  • Chair: @jill & @BrianMesick
  • Headlines:
    • They’re working on consolidating Cairn and OARS functionality, and renaming the combined project (name tbd).
    • The ability to replay large amounts of old tracking logs into xAPI is in. The enrollment reports are coming, probably this week.
    • They are close to our extensibility goals, which will allow site operators to do everything from add new data points to custom dashboards and charts.
    • Promising investigative work has been done on getting data / reports / charts to display in the LMS.
  • Meeting notes:
  • Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
    • “We could use some help from the translations WG to assess the state of translations in Superset (which we use for OARS data visualization). I suspect it’s not great and we may want to contribute translations upstream to them if we can.”

DEPR Working Group

DevEx Working Group

DevOps Working Group

Educators Working Group

  • Chair: @john_curricume
  • Headlines:
    • Educators Working Group
    • They are continuing to host monthly educator-centered knowledge-sharing sessions. On Monday, ASU will be presenting on “Non-Linear Learning using Open EdX: Resource Hubs”. Next month will be a panel discussion on the implications of AI and LLMs on MOOCs.We are also gearing up a team to work on documentation on
      http://docs.openedx.org/
    • Working on the best system to have non-technical folks contribute to documentation using Google Sheets that can then be migrated to RST and Github.
  • Meeting notes:
  • Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
    • Looking for any and all documentors!

Frontend Working Group

Large Instances Working Group

  • Chair: Braden MacDonald & Felipe Montoya
  • Headlines:
    • They are continuing to develop the Harmony Helm charts and get closer to a releasable version. “Thanks to everyone who has been working on PRs!”
      • Releasing the chart - Jhony Avella created a new PR that’s from the same repo rather than a fork, and now it seems to be working. You can now use Helm to install it directly for testing.
      • OpenSearch cluster - Maksim Sokolskiy has resolved all the comments. Mostly been testing on minikube so would appreciate if someone can test on EKS. Found a new issue with the “reindex_course” command that affects both OpenSearch and ElasticSearch. PR is ready for second round of review.
  • Meeting notes:
  • Blockers or Calls/offers for help:

Marketing Working Group

Maintainers

Product Working Group

  • Headlines:
    • Feedback on proposal to reorganize the Working Group.
    • Writing community guidelines for building features:
      • Some guidelines are now proposed for how to handle pull requests and how to propose making a feature (making a roadmap ticket, etc). This needs to be documented somewhere. Who can take this task?
        1. Wiki documentation of PR review process [Ryan/Jenna/Shelly]
        2. Documentation of doing product discovery/feature definition in the open and how to submit [Santiago]
        3. Once it’s in wiki, translate to docs.openedx.oeg [Sarina]
  • Meeting notes:
  • Blockers or Calls/offers for help:

Security Working Group

TOC

Translation Working Group

  • Chair: Eden Huthmacher
  • Headlines:
    • They are adding 2 new languages, Danish and Indonesian
  • Meeting notes:
  • Blockers or Calls/offers for help:

2. Events

3. Projects

Would anyone like to highlight any new or ongoing projects?

4. Next async update and meetup

  • Friday June 23 - Update async!
  • Tuesday July 11 - 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!

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