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 Needed Architecture Investments.

Phase 1 Goals (June → End of September)

Zia Fazal

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

Braden MacDonald

• Coordinating with Natalia and my champion, I will spend 5-10 hours per month reviewing and merging OpenCraft OSPRs in the backlog and at least equal time on some of the following contributions:

  • Answering questions on the forum

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

  • Reviewing community OSPRs to edx-platform (non-OpenCraft)

  • 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 Needed Architecture Investments

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

Usman Khalid

Jill Vogel

Felipe Montoya

Omar Al-Ithawi

Peter Pinch

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.