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2023-12-06
[Ned] What is bad about installing dependencies from GitHub?
OEP-18: Python Dependency Management — Open edX Proposals 1.0 documentation (see the end of the “Rationale” section)
[Jeremy] What would people want to see from an Open edX maintenance working group?
Expertise about how to use Dependabot and Renovate
“Error budget” for teams is useful
Test suites that are comprehensive enough and fast enough to run
Standard way to avoid trying to upgrade to a known-broken release again somewhere else
Clear path from identification of unwanted dependencies to deprecation of them
Path to consistently applying new good code patterns across our codebase
[Jeremy] What are leading causes of delayed/lost PR reviews on your teams?
[Andy/Cosmonauts] Big, intimidating PRs and lack of context after an ownership transfer
[Chris] Variety of different reasons
[Hilary] PRs that span ownership boundaries
[Andy] High/unclear level of responsibility from approving a PR
2023-11-30
[inform] (Dave) Submit Open edX conference talks!
[AS][Wild Speculation] Are we in a startup runway situation now?
Should we consider more extreme short-term measures than we normally would, to minimize operating costs in the meantime?
Axim is coordinating a pile of funded contribution (FC) projects to make various improvements already; not a lot of bandwidth for new feature requests right now.
Spent a lot of time discussing this, hard to distill it into key points
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