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Introduction
The DevX Working Group focuses, unsurprisingly, on improving the experience for developers contributing to the Open edX platform and its extensions. It is under the DevOps Working Group umbrella.
Accomplishments
Over the past year, we:
Formed in December 2022, and have since had our first few sync meetups & async updates.
Incremental Delivered incremental improvements to the Tutor development experience, including: plugin API simplifications, a new patch-listing CLI, simplified provisioning instructions, and edx-platform build speed-ups.
Preparatory Did preparatory work for bigger improvements projects in 2023 (see next section).
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Over the next six months, we’ll be:
Continuing continuing comparative research into development environment options.,
Continuing continuing development of metrics for measure the developer experience,
Continuing continuing to make Tutor work better with local copies of repositories., and
Completely completely rewriting the edx-platform asset processing system (ADR) for speed and simplicity.
Our Boardboard: https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/37/views/1
Our top-level initiatives and epics: https://github.com/openedx/wg-developer-experience/issues/1
Future Vision for the Group (Optional)
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