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2022-12-21
[Phil] [discuss] edx-cookiecutter & auto-adding LMS id from JWT to User Django model in non-LMS new services
Consensus:
Let’s add the lms_user_id in by default: PR + ADR
Let’s consider in the future how to reduce the number of identifiers, especially considering future efforts of unifying identity at 2U
Enterprise may have a model for this in how they stub users if they are added to subscriptions before they exist in the LMS.
Created: https://github.com/openedx/edx-cookiecutters/issues/281
Raw discussion notes:
Purchase squad, migrating ecommerce to 2U pre-existing ecommerce - “Titan”
Confusion about canonical user identifiers - LMS user ID
Pie or Exams do this thing about auto-adding LMS user ID - should we add this to the cookie cutter? Should new services automatically have the LMS user ID in their user model?
Well, maybe not all of them need it… but many may eventually need it?
John: Side note: Maybe we could set the id of the user in the new service to be the same as the lms_user_id?
Phil: I didn’t know we could do this!
Chris D: What about conflicts?
John N: There is only one user table that creates IDs
John, Robert: Seconded
Robert: We should have docs in the cookiecutter about this information
Robert: On the older services we didn’t have this for a long time. We were re-using an assorted variety of user identifiers across services. Users were and many times still are being created in LMS by different services.
History: Ecommerce was one of the first repos where we were trying to get the lms_user_id holistically added to all calls to/from the repo & LMS
David: Does Enterprise has any use cases of user imports?
John: We have a stub record we create if a user doesn’t pre-exist in LMS
John: Makes sense to have lms_user_id in the user model. Maybe a future thought is to reduce our total number of ids.
Robert: In the LMS, we do have the concept of external IDs.
Chris: We have global identity as well.
John: Maybe we have options to map it in the future.
[Robert] (quest) Arch Monthly Stand-up used to provide me some info about what others are up to. I know we had thoughts about an async replacement, but right now I feel like I just don’t get this info.
Do others feel they are getting this info? Where can I tap in?
There’s an L&P Scrum of Scrums that covers some of this for managers
Or, do we need some replacement?
BOM teams try to keep track of what to announce, does this need to be a more widely done practice?
Are demo/sharing time meetings common in teams?
2022-12-14
[Feanil/Ned] Announcements
Think about conference talk ideas over break! https://sessionize.com/2023-open-edx-conference
[Feanil] General overview of how things are going at 2U?
[Andy] report on LTI tool actual vs. specified or expected behavior
Unique identifiers
PII sharing
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[Ned] Slack shared channel policy: why did we require them to be private?
Because it used to be much harder to distinguish channels that had external people in them. Slack has since fixed this.
[Ned] Introductions, we have a new person
[David] (maybe a 2U topic, oops) Arch Hours - there’s a Content Arch WG that has one too, and interest in broader 2U. Is this perhaps the Open edX Arch Hour?
Essentially, try to bring up topics of broad interest to the Open edX community here and ones that are likely to touch on 2U proprietary information in the other venues that only have 2U employees in them
Arch Hour representation of teams? I.e., “representative democracy”
Reminder: we try not to make decisions in these meetings, because not all stakeholders can reliably attend. More of a forum for questions and initial feedback on ideas before they go out for broader discussion and review.
OEP-56 tries to establish a process for decision making that gives all stakeholders a reasonable opportunity to participate
We have existing change broadcast/feedback mechanisms for OEPs, DEPR WG, and Architecture squads
[inform](Bernard) New to company and checking out forum
[inform](Feanil) Dave is doing a lot of open thinking around the learning core
[inform](Feanil) Consider watching the announcements space on Open edX Discourse
[Jeremy] We have a lot of GitHub Project boards now, in different places: edx & openedx orgs, org and repo level in each. We should make sure they consistently have descriptions, and some kind of index of them.
[inform](Feanil) docs.openedx.org design coming soon
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