2022-12-01 Frontend Working Group Meeting Minutes

Action items

There weren’t any to check up on, this time. (See next item, though.)

5 minutes

Sprint reviews

Adolfo

I’ve been doing frontend community project management using the Frontend Dev board. I pinged a bunch of people yesterday, merged and reviewed a bunch of issues. I’ll be doing this every two weeks.

8 minutes

Going Async

Adolfo

After talking to Kelly Buchanan and the rest of the tCRIL team, I’m proposing we try to use #wg-frontend as much as we can for this group’s business, so that eventually (but not immediately) we can reduce the frequency of meetings and make them more interesting. We could have meetings once a month or two, where we do show-and-tell or discuss technology, rather than only talking about specific issues.

I (Adolfo) will also be the go-between the rest of the frontend community and 2U, by bringing attention to important forum or github topics in the Slack channel. Hopefully it’ll make for a reasonably active channel that make joining Frontend WG meetings totally optional.

7 minutes

Olive MFEs update

Adolfo

Going down the Matrix:

• All those MFEs except Learner Record are looking good for inclusion in Tutor/Olive

• Learner Record: depends on Credentials, so we can’t include it

• Ora Grading: depending on fix that has yet to be reviewed

• Discussions: depends on backports to edx-platform, also needs review

• Course Authoring: pretty much in already

• Authn: Missing reply in this thread: should we wait for the refactor?

3 minutes

MFE Modular Domains OEP

Adolfo

• Being worked on by Adolfo Brandes and Adam Stankiewicz

• Discovery work to be funded by tCRIL; bidder selection is ending, so it should start soon

7 minutes

Modular Web Analytics

Adolfo

• We need a solution for Google Analytics by July 1, 2023

• The linked issue lists some options, but we’ll probably want to go with Option 2: using the analytics interface already implemented in frontend-platform to create a GA plugin

• Sharoz says Segment’s API, which is already implemented in frontend-platform, is very similar to Google Analytics', so this shouldn’t be difficult to do

10 minutes

React upgrade

Jeremy

• React 16 will be out of support soon, we need to start thinking about upgrading to 17, then 18

• Jeremy will create a template for how to deal with these upgrades, which will include ways to make it easier to coordinate the work across the several maintaining teams at 2U and elsewhere

• Adolfo will be able to help via the Frontend Dev board sprint updates, every two weeks

• The Support Windows spreadsheet is still a thing! We’ll want something like it focused on the frontend.

10 minutes

Dealing with Information Overload

Adolfo

Adolfo explains how he deals with notification overload:

• Hiding channels with no unread messages on Slack

• Using Github Notifications page instead of email and the refined-github browser extension

5 minutes

edX platform-core roadmap

Jeremy

Jeremy shows us where to track FED-BOM’s current and future work.

• Adolfo notes this is close to what the Frontend Dev board tracks, and most tickets are gladly already on it. The platform-core board will be a great source to pull issues from (and into the Frontend Dev board), in any case.