# Core Contributor Sprint Retro - May 13th - May 27th **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Contributors\ **Tags:** core-sprints, retrospective\ **Created:** [May 30, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-may-13th-may-27th/7368 "2022-05-30T10:50:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-may-13th-may-27th/7368/1 "2022-05-30T10:50:16Z")
Here is the retrospective for the most recent Core Contributor (CC) sprint: ## Calls/offers for help This is what the core team needs help on now. Note that anyone can help – you don’t need to be a Core Contributor (yet!) for that: Is there anything where you could use help from others? Or that you would like to collaborate on? | Please share your opinion on this [Request for feedbak: breaking changes for course visibility - #5 by kmccormick](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/request-for-feedbak-breaking-changes-for-course-visibility/7341/5) if possible | Ghassan Maslamani | | --- | --- | | EIGHTEEN open PRs that we are meant to review - please pick one up! [Contributions · GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/19/views/3) | Sarina Canelake | | Nutmeg release target is next week. Help us fix bugs: [https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/projects/1](https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/projects/1) | Kyle McCormick | | Help to facilitate each other’s sprints & unblock other core contributors | Xavier Antoviaque | | Try panorama-elt and tutor-contrib-panorama. Help testing, improving and documenting these tools. , Review our lessons learned from Tutor K8s implementation (discuss). Help to improve the solution robustness. , Review our cloud reference architecture (discuss). Can this be a starting point to an OEP? | Andrés González | | I was caught on the tvm effort and did not have progress in the k8s hosting, but I expect to have something to collaborate on for the next sprint. | Felipe Montoya | | if we can get tutor ecommerce plugin upgraded to nutmeg that would help in testing some certs related stuff | Zia Fazal | ## Improvements & blockers What is blocking the team currently, as well as suggestions of improvements: Any blockers? | [TC\_INSTRUCTOR\_6 \> LMS: INSTRUCTOR: MEMBERSHIP \> Pages and Resources page throws Page not found error · Issue #182 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub](https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/issues/182#issuecomment-1139958107) | Dean Jay Mathew | | --- | --- | | [TC\_AUTHOR\_133: STUDIO: SETTINGS: ADVANCED: Course visibility in catalog · Issue #164 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub](https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/issues/164) | Dean Jay Mathew | | Documentation is sometimes confusing. | Andrés González | | We need a decision about the course authoring MFE in nutmeg. I don’t think we should include it, but then someone needs to restore functionality for the wiki and, I think, cohort management. | Peter Pinch | | Having access to the BTR session of the conference would be great.It was mentioned here [Tech talk/demo: Deploying multiple Open edX instances onto a Kubernetes Cluster with Tutor - #44 by dbates](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/tech-talk-demo-deploying-multiple-open-edx-instances-onto-a-kubernetes-cluster-with-tutor/4641/44) | Feliipe Montoya | What should we improve? | Increase the number of active core contributors/active community members | Dean Jay Mathew | | --- | --- | | Since Friday is shutting down, I figure that we’re moving to another similar software soon. I would be elated if the new solution pre-populated the “what did you accomplish?” field with PRs or issues that we worked on from GitHub | Kyle McCormick | | Documentation: many features in the installation manual are not clear from a user perspective. , E.g.: , [https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/open-release-maple.master/configuration/enable\_custom\_course\_settings.html:](https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/open-release-maple.master/configuration/enable_custom_course_settings.html:) how can this be used? , [https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/open-release-maple.master/configuration/youtube\_api.html:](https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/open-release-maple.master/configuration/youtube_api.html:) what is the benefit? What is it for? | Andrés González | | to myself: this time I couldn’t review/merge any code changes. I need to put more effort into those. | Maria Grimaldi | | Despite our efforts, we were blind-sided by dependencies on the Course Authoring MFE. It’s not ready for an open edX release, but there are functions that no longer work without it. | Peter Pinch | | More of a note than a suggestion - I always feel I need more time to do all the things I could be doing! I imagine most of us feel that way. There is no shortage of things to work on! | Ali Hugo | ## What went well? What went well these last two weeks / sprint? | Community memebers were involved in the testing, it feels nice to see everyone working toward a shared goal. | Ghassan Maslamani | | --- | --- | | Excellent technical contributions and deep dives to testing Nutmeg thank you team! | Dean Jay Mathew | | Got legal agreements for non-technical contributors ironed out , Had a good time talking to a small # of people from AMEA meetup | Sarina Canelake | | - Tutor maintainer program kickoff! Several Tutor plugins are now maintained by people other than Régis. , - In general, there is so much collaboration going to on to clean up and improve so many different parts of the platform, and it is really exciting to see 😃 | Kyle McCormick | | Some continued discussions about collaboration and community projects, as well as TOC topics moving forward — which is great! | Xavier Antoviaque | | Going over the installation manual and checking feature by feature what is working and what is not | Andrés González | | We are focusing on a few priority items in the marketing WG, which I think will lead to faster results. | Gabriel D’Amours | | Working along the BTR | Maria Grimaldi | | Nutmeg testing with the community has been great. | Pierre Mailhot | | Again, I’m very impressed how the community has pulled together on nutmeg testing. | Peter Pinch | | collaborated to tutor plugins migration | Jhony Avella | | The wireframes and UI design for the Listaflow reports. | Ali Hugo | | The TVM publication was well received, I’m very happy of how that turned out. | Felipe Montoya | | Learnt how to add dependencies in edX using tutor | Zia Fazal | ## Hours contributed The total reported for the last sprint: 248.52 hours contributed. The totals of the hours reported in the last nine (9) sprints: | User | Hours Contributed | | --- | --- | | Feanil Patel | 136 | | Sarina Canelake | 131 | | Andrés González | 112 | | Piotr Surowiec | 100 | | Xavier Antoviaque | 97.15 | | Kyle McCormick | 90 | | Gabriel D’Amours | 84 | | Ali Hugo | 75.72 | | Zia Fazal | 74 | | Felipe Montoya | 64 | | Maria Grimaldi | 63 | | Ghassan Maslamani | 50 | | Peter Pinch | 45 | | Adolfo Brandes | 40 | | David Ormsbee | 40 | | Braden MacDonald | 39 | | Juan Camilo Montoya | 38 | | Dean Jay Mathew | 37 | | Jillian Vogel | 35 | | Matjaz Gregoric | 29 | | Giovanni Cimolin | 28 | | Kshitij Sobti | 23 | | Igor Degtiarov | 22 | | Pierre Mailhot | 22 | | Sofiane Bebert | 20 | | Jhony Avella | 16 | | Usman Khalid | 13 | | Nizar Mahmoud | 10 | | Omar Al-Ithawi | 7.5 | | Esteban Etcheverry | 7 | | JayRam Nai | 4 | | Nicole Kessler | 2 | | Ilaria Botti | 1.5 | | Chintan Joshi | 1 | | Stefania Trabucchi | 0 | | | | | Total | 1551.62 | ## Check-ins Nutmeg preparations remain one of the central points mentioned. All the raw details and extra information can be found here: > **[Core Contributors - Sprint Planning & Retro](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E4EGEBZLw1VSzVUZThnDn187cmHOKAdsgfnvncGDwF0/edit#gid=1740359903)** > > This Sheet is private ---
**Author:** ![braden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/braden/32/46_2.png) [@braden](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/braden)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-may-13th-may-27th/7368/2 "2022-06-07T17:57:46Z")
Re the offers for help and blockers: > [@Dean](#): > > Please share your opinion on this [Request for feedbak: breaking changes for course visibility - #4 by ghassan](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/request-for-feedbak-breaking-changes-for-course-visibility/7341/5) if possible It seems like a helpful discussion already took place. > [@Dean](#): > > EIGHTEEN open PRs that we are meant to review - please pick one up! [2U - External Contributions · GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/19/views/3) This is down to four that have no reviewer yet. Can anyone else take on a PR? > [@Dean](#): > > |Nutmeg release target is next week. Help us fix bugs: [Everything · GitHub](https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/projects/1)| Several people are helping out with this. > [@Dean](#): > > |Try panorama-elt and tutor-contrib-panorama. Help testing, improving and documenting these tools. , Review our lessons learned from Tutor K8s implementation (discuss). Help to improve the solution robustness. , Review our cloud reference architecture (discuss). Can this be a starting point to an OEP?| Links: - [GitHub - aulasneo/panorama-elt: Tools to extract and load data to the datalake for Panorama analytics](https://github.com/aulasneo/panorama-elt#readme) - [GitHub - aulasneo/tutor-contrib-panorama: Tutor plugin to extract and load Open edX data to a Panorama datalake](https://github.com/aulasneo/tutor-contrib-panorama) - [Open edX Cloud Reference Architecture](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-cloud-reference-architecture/7277) - @lpm0073 and I just replied. > [@Dean](#): > > |if we can get tutor ecommerce plugin upgraded to nutmeg that would help in testing some certs related stuff| @sambapete started on this, would he or someone else be able to help finish it? [Nutmeg by sambapete · Pull Request #28 · overhangio/tutor-ecommerce · GitHub](https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-ecommerce/pull/28) > [@Dean](#): > > [TC\_INSTRUCTOR\_6 \> LMS: INSTRUCTOR: MEMBERSHIP \> Pages and Resources page throws Page not found error · Issue #182 · openedx/build-test-release-wg · GitHub](https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/issues/182#issuecomment-1139958107) Seems to be resolved. > [@Dean](#): > > TC\_AUTHOR\_133: STUDIO: SETTINGS: ADVANCED: Course visibility in catalog · Issue #164 · openedx/build-test-release-wg · GitHub Unclear. See update from @regis at [TC\_AUTHOR\_133: STUDIO: SETTINGS: ADVANCED: Course visibility in catalog · Issue #164 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub](https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/issues/164#issuecomment-1127611173) > [@Dean](#): > > Documentation is sometimes confusing. Big improvements coming: [Feedback Requested: Open edX Documentation Restructure](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/feedback-requested-open-edx-documentation-restructure/6966) > [@Dean](#): > > We need a decision about the course authoring MFE in nutmeg. This was discussed in the meeting and I believe some people have followed up on it. > [@Dean](#): > > Having access to the BTR session of the conference would be great.It was mentioned here [Tech talk/demo: Deploying multiple Open edX instances onto a Kubernetes Cluster with Tutor - #44 by dbates](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/tech-talk-demo-deploying-multiple-open-edx-instances-onto-a-kubernetes-cluster-with-tutor/4641/44) @pdpinch I think that’s a question for you - see link. Could you please post an answer? ---
**Author:** ![sambapete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/sambapete/32/4100_2.png) [@sambapete](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/sambapete)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-may-13th-may-27th/7368/3 "2022-06-07T20:09:06Z")
> [@Dean](#): > > |if we can get tutor ecommerce plugin upgraded to nutmeg that would help in testing some certs related stuff| @sambapete started on this, would he or someone else be able to help finish it? [Nutmeg by sambapete · Pull Request #28 · overhangio/tutor-ecommerce · GitHub](https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-ecommerce/pull/28) I did start on it and it was never my intention to be the maintainer. I just tried my hand at upgrading a plugin as per the instructions @regis gave in one of his webcast. I know this is what is currently being installed on the Nutmeg demo server as per [https://github.com/overhangio/nutmeg-demo/blob/master/.github/workflows/deploy.yml](https://github.com/overhangio/nutmeg-demo/blob/master/.github/workflows/deploy.yml) I do not know the official status of the plugin. It does work on my own nutmeg server. ---
**Author:** ![antoviaque](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/antoviaque/32/32_2.png) [@antoviaque](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/antoviaque)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-may-13th-may-27th/7368/4 "2022-06-09T09:19:45Z")
> [@Dean](#): > > Since Friday is shutting down, I figure that we’re moving to another similar software soon. I would be elated if the new solution pre-populated the “what did you accomplish?” field with PRs or issues that we worked on from GitHub That’s a neat idea! And it would encourage the use of tickets to track work. @Fox_Piacenti @Ali could we add this to the wishlist items as user feedback? > [@Dean](#): > > Increase the number of active core contributors/active community members +1. There are some related conversations from the conference related to this that we should continue imho. @sarina I think you had in mind to organize a meeting of the stakeholders / organizations about time commitments? Would you want/need any help? > [@braden](#): > > > [@Dean](#): > > > > We need a decision about the course authoring MFE in nutmeg. > > This was discussed in the meeting and I believe some people have followed up on it. @braden Do you remember what was the decision, or what the opinions/follow-ups on this were? ---
**Author:** ![braden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/braden/32/46_2.png) [@braden](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/braden)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-may-13th-may-27th/7368/5 "2022-06-09T22:10:09Z")
No, sorry, I’m not sure of the outcome of that.