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Who are we?
We are the engineering team of the Center for Reimagining Learning (aka tCRIL, pronounced “tea-krill”). tCRIL is the temporary name for a lasting non-profit which stewards the codebase and community of the Open edX Project.
The Team
Vice President of Engineering | ||
Product Manager for the Open edX Platform | ||
Engineering Manager | ||
Software Architect | ||
Software Architect | ||
Software Architect (Data) | ||
Principal Frontend Engineer | ||
Senior Software Engineer | ||
Senior Frontend Engineer | ||
Software Engineer |
Our Work
Current Work 🛩 What are doing now? | |
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tCRIL Roadmap 🗺 What’s on our horizon? | |
On-Call 🔔 How do we handle incoming GitHub management requests? |
Contact Us
Need | Contact Methods |
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Quick questions |
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| Use the tCRIL Request Process described below. |
Requests for Open edX features, bug fixes, etc. | tCRIL doesn’t take these sort of requests directly. Some other forums you could try:
Please keep in mind: community companies and working groups are busy with their own initiatives. Still, they might be excited to help you get started with developing a solution to your problem! |
Mailing address | One Broadway |
tCRIL Request Process
We take requests via the New Issue portal on the openedx/tcril-engineering repository. tCRIL’s rotating “on-call” engineer will triage your issue within one business day during their own working hours. They will try to give you a time estimate for completion. They may do the work themselves or delegate it to someone else. Note that tCRIL does not generally provide support on weekends, holidays, the early morning, or the evening (~US-Eastern timezone).
Please fill out all request fields, including a helpful title. Make sure the title remains prefixed with [GH Request]
so that our automation picks it up and routes it to the on-call engineer. So your ticket’s title would look something like, [GH Request] Onboard New User Bob Jones
Common Request Types
🎓 Onboarding edX/2U Employees
So, you just started at edX/2U? Congrats! 🎉 Either 2U IT or your manager should file a GitHub Request - Onboarding issue on your behalf. (Please don’t file file the request yourself--we need someone who is already in the openedx
organization to vouch that you are indeed a new 2U employee).
2U IT and managers: For new hires, file a GitHub Request - Onboarding issue with us. We often do not get to requests the day they are filed, so please file the request as far in advance of the employee’s start date as possible. Please provide a helpful title, but make sure it remains prefixed with [GH Request]
so that our automation picks it up. Thanks!
🌐 Onboarding Core Contributors
So, you just became a core contributor? Congrats! 🎉 Your sponsor should file a GitHub Request - Access/Config issue on your behalf, with a link to the approving Discourse thread, your GH username, and the repos approved access for. If your sponsor is not responding to pings, you may file it yourself. Please first read the “For Those Joining” section here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/2810249408/Core+Contributor+Committer+Runbook#For-Those-Joining-the-Core-Contributor-Program-as-a-Committer . A Core Contributor Program Administrator will be reaching out to send you the appropriate documents and ensure correct access.
🏗 Adding or removing repositories from the openedx GitHub organization
Which repositories belong in the openedx
GitHub organization, versus other GitHub organizations? Eventually, we'll have an OEP describing that. In the mean time, see our interim guidance.
If you believe that:
a repository from another GitHub organization should be moved into
openedx
, ora repository from
openedx
should be moved out to another GitHub organization,
then submit a GitHub Request - Access/Config issue on the board linked above, detailing what you think should be transferred in and why. The request should come from an established contributor to the Open edX project, ideally a principal+ engineer or engineering manager.
If you want to make a new repository in the openedx
organization, then first create it in your personal/company organization, and then follow the transfer request process above.
If you want to archive a repository from the openedx
organization please check out OEP-14: Archiving GitHub Repositories.
🛠 Offboarding & access changes, and other requests
Do you need us to:
add or remove GitHub permissions from a user?
change the configuration of a GitHub application?
remove someone from the
openedx
GitHub organization?help you out with anything else?
File an issue using the tCRIL Engineering board above, selecting the most appropriate template. Please provide reasoning for your change and as much supplemental detail as possible. In the case of adding or removing permissions, please have your manager ask on your behalf.