Core Contributors Update: Jul 22 - Aug 4, 2023
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1. Working Groups Updates
1.1. BTR Working Group
Chair: @ali_hugo
Latest news
Palm has been released! - #3 by ABC
- They’ll run the Palm release retrospective asynchronously for 2 weeks at https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3663462417/Palm+Retrospective
Meeting notes
1.2. Contributor Coordination Working Group
Chair: TBD
- We have a New working group! Introducing: The Contributor Coordination Working Group
1.3. Data Working Group
- Funded Contribution updates:
- BI contractor Rory is back for a few more weeks!
- Redis Bus contract is still crawling toward completion
- We’re pushing toward a Beta 1 with fully functional (no cat 1 or 2 bugs) pipelines for Ralph and Vector ingestion, Operator Dashboard, and limited Instructor Dashboard, tested at a scale of 300 million xAPI events.
- Operator Dashboard has landed
- Forum events are starting to land
- Docs are starting to land
- Thorny issues with multi-question submissions are being worked on
- Jenna has gathered community input and use cases, as will be presenting a Product Proposal for Aspects at the next Data WG meeting in 2 wks (2023-08-09)!
- Some ideas to get data and embed iframes in the LMS are proposed here WIP: get data with superset API to the LMS by Ian2012 · Pull Request #2 · eduNEXT/aspects-superset-aside
1.4. DEPR Working Group
Chair: @ali_hugo
- Follow up on deprecating devstack/edx-configuration:
- Set the dates further out, about 6 months
- Seems like there is still some use here that we need to be aware of and careful about
- Take a look at deadcode and vulture results on edx-platform:
- They’ve been able to clean up some more small DEPR tickets thanks to Yagnesh!
- They’ve been implementing 2U-side of [DEPR]: Remove JWT_AUTH_REFRESH_COOKIE · Issue #190 · openedx/public-engineering, and ran into a minor issue where I may take on edx-configuration.
1.5. DevEx Working Group
- (2U ArchBOM)
- Devstack bug fixes
- Figuring out if we can reasonably measure how long it takes someone to onboard
- this includes communications latency
- results vary wildly (1 day to 20 days)
- This includes non-technical onboarding issues like paperwork and getting permissions
- DEPRing parts of paver/pavelib
- paver update_db in particular wasn’t working, now we’re using
make migratemore- Starting conversations around how to DEPR/move things from Open edX to 2U (like devstack)
- DEPR ticket - please leave feedback here: [DEPR] Devstack · Issue #907 · openedx/devstack
- Date for move from Open edX to edX is 6 months out
- We need Axim’s legal approval to move from openedx to edx org in GH
- Trying out Orbstack, which wins almost immediately for me for not having to allocate memory up front
- Orbstack is not free. We’re looking into free alternatives
- Docker Desktop is still free for independent devs. As long as Orbstack remains a drop-in for Docker Desktop, it may not be a huge deal for the community
- Devstack images are starting to get built for ARM. the one for credentials is up, LMS, Studio, and others are getting close.
- Tutor dev out-of-the-box is using crazy resources right now, read this for a workaround & a link to our long term fix if you’re interested: Workaround for high
tutor devmemory usage in Palm and Nightly
1.6. DevOps Working Group
Chair: @ali_hugo
- Progress on getting Open edX to run on a local Kubernetes cluster with Minikube/Kind: How to run Open edX on a local Kubernetes cluster? · Issue #4 · openedx/wg-devops · GitHub
Blockers or Calls/offers for help
- we could use some help getting the minio plugin to work on a local Kubernetes cluster (How to run Open edX on a local Kubernetes cluster? · Issue #4 · openedx/wg-devops · GitHub )
1.7. Educators Working Group
Chair: @ali_hugo
- This month’s meeting was dedicated entirely to the panel discussion “The AI Era of Open Online Courses”.
- Educators Working Group
Blockers or Calls/offers for help
- Looking for any and all documentors!
[etc for remaining groups]
2. Events
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3. Projects
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4. Next async update and meetup
- Tuesday August 8 - Join the meetup here!
- Friday August 18 - Update async
- Details and draft agenda on the GitHub board
Anything to add?
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