Prefix your topic with your intention so we are clear on what outcome you are striving from the discussion. Examples:

[inform] You are simply seeking to inform the group of this item. You may field clarifying questions from the group on your inform, but not seeking further discussion at this time.
[ideation] You are seeking divergent and wide perspectives from this group. In this brainstorming mode, all ideas are accepted, without critical analysis.
- It may be helpful to clarify whether you’d like to ideate on the problem space or the solution space.
[analysis] You are asking the group to help you poke holes in your idea/topic/plan/etc.
[quest] You are seeking information/responses to a question you have.

2023-11-15

[inform] (Jeremy) https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/3927375918/courseware+studentmodule+Table+Refactoring
[musings/questions] (Ned) Mapping people/squads/repos
[Question] (Hilary) If we’re trying to design new db for a model, who is the best person/people to talk to?
- Solution Review
- Dave Ormsbee at Axim
- Many principal/staff engineers
- No real DBAs, but…
- At least for a while, we have part-time contract DBA via Percona
- Also, consult Everything About Database Migrations
[inform] (Jeremy) Socket.dev - tool for tracking dependency health
[quest] (Jeremy) Awareness of Django’s transaction.on_commit() and similar tools which are incredibly useful in the right circumstances. How do we make sure developers are aware of / informed of these when appropriate?
- New “everything about concurrency” guide?
  - Celery
  - Transactions
  - Event bus
  - Django async
[inform] (Alex) Enterprise likes drf-spectacular
- Related: Making edX Platform APIs public
- Related: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/32609
- Should we have a doc/resource of “we like these patterns, do more of this”?

2023-11-08

[inform] (Dave) New Relic is a great resource!
[quest] (Dave) There are multiple places where it would be beneficial to add indexes in large tables (~10-100M+ rows?). I don’t think they’ll lock anything, but would the length of time it takes to run the migration be disruptive to the release process? What’s a good path forward so we don’t take edx.org by surprise?
- Please hold off until MySQL 8.0 update has completed.
- Long term: Need to do something about partitioning CSM.
[ideation] (Dave) Serving assets with Caddy (and maybe nginx?) via X-Accel-Redirect.
- https://pypi.org/project/django-sendfile2/
  - Dave: FWIW, I wasn’t planning to use this. I think folks have standardized on the header since this was written, it doesn’t seem like it’s completely up to date, and I’m planning to do a lot of header tweaking anyhow.
- Can make the container run Caddy and have that work in devstack as well.
- Actual nginx configuration still happens via the configuration repo–can talk to TNL for testing help.
[question] (Ned) why are there so many old renovate pull requests open?
- 86 created before 2023: https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+author%3Aapp%2Frenovate+org%3Aopenedx+created%3A%3C2023-01-01
[question] (Jeff) Any special security considerations re browser extensions?
[question] (Jeff) AGPL / borrowing Canvas code concerns?
[question] (Jeff) How best to query for the presence of SRT captions files for videos?

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