Topics

• Topics for Tuesday’s Arch Study Group

• Meta conversation on Arch Tea Time +2

  • Including more folks outside of Platform Theme

    • Note: Some teams have demos at 2:30pm

      • Unless we standardize on meetings throughout the org, we’ll always have these conflicts.

  • Timezone sensitivity for Arbisoft folks

    • Wed’s at 10am - Tues at 11am

  • Topics beforehand

    • Can prioritize if we know the topic ahead of time

    • Reacji again?

    • Prioritize topics provided 24-hour in advance

  • Using lean-coffee style - with time limits helps

  • Advertise the existence of this meeting when folks onboard

• Open edX +4

  • community participating in our architectural work

    • Loci: Slack, tea-time, https://discuss.openedx.org, pull requests, OEPs, ADRs, JIRA

    • What would success look like? What has to change to make it happen?

  • Proposals

    • joining us at 1x a month Arch Tea ← Schedule, Agenda, etc Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated) , Jinder Singh (Deactivated)

      • Once a month calendar invite with community that will be recorded.

      • Prep agenda beforehand - in advance in Discourse

      • Tuesdays at 11am - just for this monthly one.

    • Shared slack channels (+1 Kyle)

      • meows and woofs as well!

      • #architecture (having something like #architecture-internal for closed arch discussions) ← Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

      • #decentralized-devstack +1 (Kyle McCormick )

      • #devstack and/or #devstack-questions (Kyle McCormick )

      • #django

      • #fedx

      • Change Management

        • Kyle McCormick, Adam Blackwell (Deactivated), Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated) will follow-up on this.

        • Post a poll in the current channel to ensure folks are cool with the change.

        • Follow the process to create the slack channel - Nim will share instructions

        • Ensure folks are aware of how to use/detect these channels

        • 

    • Idea for future: Slack reacji (like our #howto channel)

    • Discourse

      • Architecture category: https://discuss.openedx.org/c/development/architecture/12

  • Out of scope: Being consultants.

  • How to get Open edX community involved in decentralized devstack discussions and development?

    • Jinder Singh (Deactivated) ​will post in the Open edX Slack #architecture and on discuss.openedx.org to gauge interest and inquire about discussion venue preference

      • just created quick post in discuss.openedx.org: https://discuss.openedx.org/t/decentralized-devstack/3154

• Question: e2e tests +1

  • Questions

    • Context: ecommerce e2e tests were failing for 3-4 business days and we were unable to deploy anything to ecommerce production

    • Purpose, overview of how they work, how/when/where are they run

    • Is there an inventory of all our e2e tests? e.g. which repos have them, which don’t

    • What's the difference between e2e-tests on build jenkins vs e2e tests for ecommerce (per https://edx-internal.slack.com/archives/CD9FTF8HW/p1598969607013300?thread_ts=1598967197.011500&cid=CD9FTF8HW)?

    • Evolution of e2e tests at edx

    • Who owns what part of e2e tests? (ie who do I talk to if they are broken)

  • e2e tests

    • edx-e2e-tests Jenkins job

      • Bokchoy-driven tests for interservice testing - used prior to us thinking more about API consumer contract tests

    • e-commerce has its own end-to-end tests

      • Intended to cover the happy path of the most important purchasing paths

      • Recent issues surfaced with Python upgrade when the Chrome version changed, etc, etc.

      • e-commerce is a high-risk business situation where there’s the value of this.

    • CI process

      • The e-commerce GoCD pipeline runs both the edx-e2e-tests and e-commerce e2e tests.

      • The edx-platform GoCD pipeline runs only the edx-e2e-tests.

    • Ownership

      • Purchase squad owns the e-commerce e2e tests.

      • Arch-BOM squad owns the edx-platform edx-e2e-tests.

• 🎉 Inform from Adam Butterworth (Deactivated): BD-xx for Pattern Library is now completed - so no more Pattern Library in edx-platform

Backlog of Questions/Discussions

• How can we improve our culture of async communication?

  • Idea: Discourse

• React - Discussions Forum - editor input - draft JS

• Branding: How can we keep branded edX Strings separate from the open source code (right now English string values are also edX-branded string values)

• Future (when folks are not on PTO)

  • Q&A with Feanil on Inter-service Eventing

  • Observability with Robert

    • What are your biggest pain-points?

    • Any we should dive into (e.g JS Error alert fatigue)Type hinting: Do we want it? Everywhere or just in APIs? etc?

  • Shopping cart deprecation with Diana

    • lessons learned, knowledge sharing on dead code, etc.