Disclaimers

Note this page was written in 2020 at the conception of the Core Contributor Program and thus current terminology, requirements, and implementation details may differ from what this document and its children pages describe. Specifically, the program herein described is now known as the “Core Contributor Program Committers”, whereas previously it was “Core Committers”.

On the heels of Open edX’s 7-year anniversary, we launched the Core Committers program!

In order to ensure the program’s success and validate ongoing commitment to its rollout, let us collaborate on concrete goals for each Core Committer during Phase 1. Ideally, these goals illustrate the positive impact on our platform from the responsibilities listed.

Here are a few examples of target goals for Phase 1:

• I will document missing ADRs, READMEs, HowTos, etc in <repository>.

• I commit to N hours to review and merge/close OSPRs in <repository> and will work with @Natalia Berdnikov (Deactivated) to ensure these OSPRs are routed to me.

• After a discussion with my Champion (and engineer X), we agreed with my plan to implement <technical investment> in <repository>.

• I commit to the 1st increment of <technical investment> listed in https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/1165461538.

Phase 1 Goals (June → End of September)

@Zia Fazal

I commit to help my team in implementation of OEP-0026

• Relevant edx-platform PR 24282

• event-tracking PR 56

• event-routing-backends PRs 7, 11

@Braden MacDonald

I will spend 10-20 hours per month on the following personal priorities:

• Reviewing and merging OSPRs, in coordination with Natalia and my champion

  • #24277, #24586, #24343, #21402, #24149, #21413, #22936, #24800, etc.

• Answering questions on the forum

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.

• Improving Blockstore and completion/aggregator README/documentation (recurring source of questions on the forum)

  • Blockstore PR#76 , openedx-completion-aggregator PR #80

• Improving REST API documentation e.g. at https://courses.edx.org/api-docs/ , especially re the new XBlock runtime and content libraries v2

• Documenting and prototyping ideas re “xBlock v2 Framework” from https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/1165461538

  • Done, see "Thoughts on a Successor to XBlocks"

• Reducing tech debt in edx-platform starting with the TODO items listed in shims.py

@Usman Khalid

• I’ll:

  • Coordinate with Natalia and my champions to review PRs on the Blockstore and XBlock frameworks repos.

    • Blockstore PR#76 , Blockstore PR#70 , Blockstore PR#74, Blockstore PR#83, PR#24930

  • Help to review and co-establish technical direction for the Learning Sequences app.

    • ADR reviews: ADR PR #24463, ADR PR #24538

    • Code reviews: PR#24545

  • Work on performance improvements for Blockstore (and related APIs).

    • Blockstore PR#96

    • Implementation of the Blockstore as app ADR PR#71 in Blockstore PR#97.

@Jill Vogel

I will:

• Coordinate with Natalia and my champions to review OSPRs on the edx:configuration repo (with intent to merge) or other edX repos (with intent to review only).

  • configuration#5697, configuration#5776, configuration#5706, configuration#5807, configuration#5922, etc.

• Answer questions on the forum, specifically with an eye towards mentoring people new to Open edX operations and deployment.

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

• Provide community perspective and input on the future deprecation of the configuration repo and the future of Open edX deployment (OEP-45, OEP-45 implementation).

  • In progress

• Improve documentation and resources for operators and users of Open edX.

@Felipe Montoya

I will commit to spending about 20 hours per month advancing the following items:

• Spend about half the time per month reviewing OSPRs

• Discuss with my champions the hook based extension framework

• Understand and discuss with my team how can we better align our work so that in phase 2 other developers from eduNEXT are candidates for the program

• Work on a prototype of stable python APIs for plugin development

@Omar Al-Ithawi

I will commit to review the overall status of edx-ace in the following:

@Peter Pinch

• I will add an ADR for ccx-keys

• Working with @Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated) and @Felipe Montoya I will add an ADR for deprecating the sysadmin panel, to be replaced by a django plugin

• I will contribute annotations for feature toggles (OEP-17) and settings (open edX discuss thread)

@Régis B.

I work through the backlog of pull requests in the Devstack repo to close them or make sure they are being actively worked on.

@Igor Degtiarov

I will commit to spending ~20 hours per month on the following items:

• Working on edX proctoring (scope of this work will be updated after the call with Simon Chen)

• Answering questions on the forum, specifically related to the LTI, proctoring etc.

• Reviewing OSPRs (after discussion with my Champions which repos needs me more)