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  • Our code that is marked deprecated already
  • Bad imports preventing us from removing sys.path nonsense
  • Advocate usage of the OEP and propose changes when the process described is not useful
  • Adding dates to the DeprecationWarning to indicate when we expect things to no longer work
  • Organizational focus on eliminating warnings
  • Bubbling up dates into code/tickets so that product can respond
  • Keep track of deprecation tickets that will impact the next release
    • Could be wiki page, could be Jira filter
  • Examples of situations:
    • Dynamic Pacing
      • We will deliver the feature
      • Engineering work needs to happen as part of delivering the feature before we can move onto other projects
  • Percentage of engineering time dedicated to it
    • Dedicate a day or two to engineering work per sprint
  • Escalation teams - can they take on debt work?

Future Discussions

  • How do we deprecate features?
  • Getting product buy-in?
    • Notifier, as an example
  • Presenting to the engineering org about successes
  • Figure out how much time we are spending right now on tech debt
    • Increase that number?
    • Are we doing enough?
  • Focus on removing pylint and deprecation warnings
  • IOUs
    • when introducing tech debt, keep track of the new things that are added
  • Track engineering pain points
    • Course Modes
    • access
  • Questions of ownership?
    • Guilds - how are they working?

Diana Huang - schedule a meeting to go through the list and update information on them