The purpose of this page is to help those with write access to openedx repositories make informed decisions about when to merge pull requests.
2U employees: Please keep this page up to date! It will help the community help you by making informed decisions about merges that will affect edX production environments.
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Context
Groups of individuals with merge rights to public repositories in the openedx GitHub organization include:
tCRIL,
members of the Core Contributor Program, and
employees (and contractors) of 2U, i.e. the operators of edX.org.
2U, unlike most other Open edX operators, ships code directly off of the master branch of Open edX service repositories. We aim not to merge in a way that would make it difficult for 2U employees to respond to breaking changes, whether they be intentional or accidental. Still, we do want to empower non-2U committers to merge changes without relying on a 2U employee to "push the button" for them.
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Core contributors: Please consider these guidelines in conjunction with those listed in CC reviews and ownership. |
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2U employees/contractors: Please consider these guidelines in conjunction with the internal IDA release process and LMS/Studio release process. |
Guidelines for edx-platform
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When is edx-platform deployed?
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edx-platform is continuously deployed to edX production. Upon merging a pull request, it is generally released to the Staging environment (courses.stage.edx.org) within one hour and the Production environments (courses.edx.org and edge.edx.org) within two hours.
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What is the ideal merge window?
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Non-2U: M-F 7:30am and 3:30pm ET.
2U: your team’s preferred working hours.
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What should I do before merging?
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Non-2U: Inform the relevant #cc-$PLATFORMAREA channel(s) in the Open edX Slack of your intent to merge with a lead time of ~15 minutes. See this document for a list of channels.
2U: may post in their internal Slack’s #warroom to raise awareness of their change if they believe it has an above-average risk of failure in production.
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Are there other times merging is discouraged?
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Weekends. Saturdays and Sundays.
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Christmas and New Year’s Day (12/25 and 1/1). In previous years, we’ve also requested a broader merge freeze between 12/22 and 1/4. We may do this again. Reach out to your champion if you want to merge within this time period.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The third Monday of January.
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US President’s Day. The third Monday of February.
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MA Patriot’s Day. The third Monday of April.
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US Memorial Day. The last Monday of May.
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Juneteenth. June 19th, or the weekday nearest to it.
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US Independence Day. July 4th, or the weekday nearest to it.
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US Labor Day. The first Monday in September.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The second Monday in October.
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Veteran’s/Armistice Day. November 11th, or the weekday nearest to it.
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Thanksgiving + day after. The fourth Thursday and Friday in November.
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Additional special dates may come up. Please watch this page!
Guidelines for other repositories
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When are other repositories deployed?
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Frontend app repositories (ie “MFEs” / “micro-frontends”) are generally deployed to edX production manually by the owning team at 2U.
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Backend service repositories (ie “IDAs” / “independently deployable apps”) are generally deployed to edX production manually by the owning team at 2U.
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Python and JavaScript packages are “deployed” when they are upgraded in their respective service repositories. Because different services upgrade dependencies at different rates, the lead time from merging to production here can vary. To minimize this lead time, we recommend to quickly follow each package merge with (1) a package release and then (2) an upgrade of that package in at least one service. When upgrading the package in a service, follow that service’s merge timing guidelines.
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Dev tools such as Devstack are not “deployed” per se, but merged changes are immediately apparent to developers once they git pull .
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What is the ideal merge window?
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You can merge to these repositories whenever you want to once you have met that repository’s review requirements.
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What should I do before merging?
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Non-2U: should inform the relevant #cc-$PLATFORMAREA channels in the Open edX Slack with a lead time of ~20 minutes.
2U: inform the owning team. Depending on the repository, you may need to kick off a production deployment.
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Are there other times merging is discouraged?
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Moved here: Merge Timing Guidelines for openedx Repositories