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This page is about the Doc-a-thon on Toggles and Settings, taking place January 25-29, 2021, and extended through March 15.
Participation will take a couple of hours to help research and document some of our feature toggles or settings.
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January 25, 11am EST / 4pm UTC: (Optional) Opening meeting on Zoom
(Optional) Watch recorded Opening meeting (Passcode: $VA7g^s6)
January 25-29, asynchronous doc-a-thon efforts.
January 29, 11:30am EST / 4:30pm UTC: Watch recorded Closing meeting (Passcode: N.R8=3Zn)
UPDATE: doc-a-thon extended through March 15.
Asking for Help
There is a dedicated Open edX Slack channel #doc-a-thon.
Please join if you want to discuss, ask questions, and exchange information.
We will have several community or edX team members available there to answer your questions and help.
FYI: Edx edX employees can access this same channel from our Slack instance. Just ask to be invited.
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Feel great for celebrating the International Day of Education (Jan 24) by making it easier to use the Open edX platform to help educate everyone, everywhere.
Earn a participation badge or a top-2-participants, badge if badges are your thing.
Get mentioned or highlighted in our Open edX blog article detailing the results of the doc-a-thon.
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Perfect is the enemy of good?
What could have sped up the PR reviews?
(Future) Toggle linting and lint amnesty will provide faster feedback loops.
We were resolving open questions while reviewing.
Splitting delegation and reviewing to different people.
Extend the event to a longer duration!
What are the bottlenecks?
Longer time → How to keep the energy up?
Have a goal!
Badges and “competition” helps encourage
Would prefer to externalize outside of Discourse.
Top contributor award as well
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