Open edX Contributors Meetup

Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-03-21.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-21-03-23

Participants

Meeting notes

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@jalondonot Thank you for the regular updates and changes here - it was helpful to be able to get caught up on recent discussions async btw.

Also for those who wonder where the updates have gone - they have been moved to individual threads each two weeks sprints. Get the latest ones at Topics tagged retrospective . This comes from the changes @jalondonot mentioned, about moving the updates from the synchronous meeting to asynchronous threads.

Agenda

For the meeting later today, I have some topics to submit for its agenda, if there is room:

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-04-18.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-18-04-23

Participants

Contributors Meetup Async Update

Red flags or blockers

Discussion topics

  • Review the blockers & request for collaboration from the last sprint, and try to figure out good next steps for them.
  • Formal contributor/community group creation - responding to ping from Feanil in discourse thread Community WG vs Core Contributors.
  • Review of recent changes - what worked and was useful? what needs to improve?
    • Identification of retro/update threads - using the retrospective tag? Topics tagged retrospective
    • Some of the updates are currently a bit repetitive - instead maybe the current groups’ focus summary could be posted? And maybe it would be more interesting to read something written individually by each working group, to allow them to highlight anything important?
    • How to integrate the current changes with @ali_hugo 's work on Brainstorm: Better Planning, Collaboration, & Reporting for Core Contributor Work => should we join forces to produce one single nice report/update every two weeks?
  • Palm testing plan
  • Maintainers program update
  • Follow-up on past updates
  • Educators Working Group

Action Points

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 05.16.2023

Video Recording

OpenedX Contributors Meeting - 05.16.2023

Participants

Contributors Meetup Async Update

Calls for participation

Discussion topics

  • We have a new working group! Educators Working Group
  • New Product Core Contributors: @faqir.bilal , @Santiago_Suarez and @marcotuts
  • Three new MFEs are candidates for inclusion in Palm, only two officially in Tutor MFE and one of them is going to be experimental with separate plugin.
  • Need for guidelines about the naming of feature toggles: next step is to amend OEP-17? any other suggestion/reference?
  • Training/onboarding courses:
    • Intro to the Open edX Project & Contributing: General project onboarding course; need a few reviewers both technical and non technical. If you’re interested ping Sarina in Slack
    • From marketing WG update (sprint 1): “We are hoping to create site operator training and would love to collaborate with BTR on this” → contribute to the onboarding courses?
    • Timeline for opening & public hosting - onboarding course about upstreaming getting ready (beta)

Action Points

  • Ghassan will help creating the plugin for a learner dashboard.

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 06.20.2023

Video Recording

OpenedX Contributors Meeting - 06.20.2023

Participants

Contributors Meetup Async Update

Calls for participation

Discussion topics

  • Addressing PR review delays (by Ghassan ) Contributors Meetup Async Update - May 16th, 2023 - May 30th, 2023 - #3 by antoviaque
    “Ghassan proposed this topic because often he’s having long delays for his reviews on his pull request which like we’ve all actually related to the experience that it has improved over some years and especially months but there are still some areas of the platform that are a lot less well-spotted than other so the situation is much better for timing and reviews and etc, on the well supported one but on a lot of areas it’s not so on of the remarks out of that is that there are probably two things to consider for that, the first, we can mapping a little bit better what to expect depending where we contribute and maybe a way for things to be less frustrating for new contributors in particular but even probably the older ones, and second part is about trying to find solutions to get those reviews earlier, even on places that are less well maintained or were under maintenance of that style, If you have more ideas share them with us here

  • Town Hall next steps - Community Town Hall: What Are Our Action Items?

  • Improving the core contributor experience (sprints & checkins)

  • Follow-ups on Ghassan 's proposal to establish guidelines about the naming of feature toggles. Next step was to open a PR to amend OEP-17 - any blocker?

Action Points

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 07.11.2023

Video Recording

OpenedX Contributors Meeting - 07.11.2023

Participants

Contributors Meetup Async Update

Announcements

Calls for participation

  • PR Review Delays: Follow-up on the discussion from the last meeting:
    • Discussion has kept going async on the forum in the meantime. - any comments/topics from the forum exchanges worth discussing synchronously?
    • Kudos to everyone from this meeting who commented btw
    • Tasks creation and assignation - on topics that already have consensus (like advertising the need for more core contributors, and for existing core contributors to extend their rights), is there anyone willing to create tasks for the work? To take some of them on?
  • Wafle flags. From @pdpinch: “For a feature that’s used so frequently, waffle flags are not well-documented – Neither the library nor the implementations.” – any suggestions?
  • Video social share feature – how can we get an answer to Core Contributor Sprint Retro: 2023-05-27 - 2023-06-10 - #6 by antoviaque – if anyone from 2U is there, can you relay? (otherwise I’ll try to bring it up to the product working group, CC @jmakowski

Discussion topics

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