Had planned to meet with someone for tCRIL chatting but unfortunately cancelled at the last minute – COVID. 
Maria’s CC nomination has five “yes” votes!
Adolfo started! :fire: :100: :dancing-dinosaur: :party-wizard:
Live-Share is a great tool for Pair-Programming. And since we use GitHub it is very easy to import a repository and work with friends online!
Engineering Demos went well. Learned lots, and have more ideas for Demos we can share with the entire community!
We talked about stopping the docs decoupling work before we did a lot of work that might have gotten thrown away. +1
Tutor: After a week+ of working on backlog, Regis and I agreed on a first dev milestone - a ‘v1’ stable plugin interface
Tutor: Becca will be leading a ‘DevEnv WG’ to get 2U employees to try out Tutor & give us feedback
[Adolfo] Super exciting first week - thanks for all the one-on-ones so far!
Nothing!!
Product/Design coordination meeting did not happen
Got feedback from a new engineering manager at edX that they worried tCRIL was a black box
[Feanil] Maybe we should ask to be a visiting speaker at eng All-hands
They suggested office hours, which I’d like to try +1
I think an intro plus the on-going office hours is a good combo.
Takeaways
Readme updates, tcril website?
Push info out
Maybe public office hours?
New roadmap ideas → Jenna
What we’re gonna do
Sarina will record some videos, incl an ‘intro to tCRIL’ video
Feanil will help makes intro to tcril slides
Office hours, have the EM help us plug them on the 2u side
Got issue templates going for DEPR & tcril-eng gh requests; got actions working to put them on gh beta boards & add comments
Merged OEP-54 and an immediate update
Excited to do the github cleanup. We have nearly 100 teams with nothing in them. Glad to start on this work.
[Adolfo] First frontend working group meeting representing tCRIL
12 Provider interviews scheduled (8 finished)
Discovery work for in-platform surveys
We’ve transferred the IMS certifications to tCRIL
Helped to unblock Arch-BOM’s message bus work with openedx-events arch discussion threads
Repo migration complete!
The issues we found during the transfer were quick to fix.
[sarina] Enjoyed an extremely over-time catchup with djoy
Really enjoying Games & Hangs, thanks for coming! +1 +1
[Feanil] RTD Cleanup is going well and is helping us split the docs up more clearly.
[Carlos] Lots of TLC on the symmath to openedx-calc PR from Kyle and Dave
Openedx-calc and symmath were in rough shape: no linting for the former, minimal unit testing + dead code for the latter. Big props to Carlos for enabling linting for all of it and writing an issue to tackle the dead/untested code, on top of his existing ticket
Related to ^, I really wish we had fewer repos and less code
Had planned to meet with someone for tCRIL chatting but unfortunately cancelled at the last minute – COVID.
We transferred all the repos.
We deleted a bunch of old RTD repos.
Synthesized and coalesced around a high-level tCRIL Roadmap
Carlos fixed up openedx-calc and added symmath to it
Merged changes to de-edxify the arbiter guidelines in OEP-1
Finalized conference decision
Ready to release automated individual contributor CLA signing
I played this game with my girlfriend’s family and I think we’d have a good time with it: https://25words.com/ (never tried it online). Scratches the codenames itch but with a timer too +1
Tutor project starting up. Looking forward to working with Regis, Diana, Becca
Tutor itself is really exciting – I think it could be (or already is) the “extension framework of extension frameworks” that Open edX needs to glue together all the different plugin points that currently exist
tcril-onboarding docs is up and running
Consensus that most private decoupling tickets can be made public - now we can actually organize our work and start looking at a board during standup
I got new ski boots - Kyle [GAME CHANGER]
Holidays were a nice break. Feeling refreshed.
Our household got a Nespresso machine for Christmas, so I’m 200% more caffeinated on a daily basis now. - Dave
Roadmap workshop - very impressed with everyone’s input and was a huge learning experience for me
SRE got edx-platform-openedx-ci up and running, so we’re good for transfer of the edx-platform repo.
Repo move for our 100+ repos-in-a-day went smoothly
Working with Peter Pinch on writing stuff (blog posts, release notes, OEP) has been productive & pleasant
Three meetings with edX PMs set this week
(annoyed): continued problems with laptops :P
* The edx-documentation repo is kind of a mess and clean separation seems daunting at the moment.(It’s early days so this will likely change as I learn more.) - Feanil
Nizar leaving OpenCraft
The recent wave of edX departures. I get it but it still makes me sad.
Got release notes out for Maple, and blog posts written (going out this week)
Most repos have been moved to openedx with minimal to no issues on the edX side.
First round of roadmap planning (Thurs workshop)
First pass at synthesis and next steps in process
Finished adding forum moderators as core contributors
First iteration of GitHub access management, using GitHub issues
first iteration of tcril-onboarding docs
First draft of Provider Survey
Worked out process for enriching/analyzing Heroku census data
Legacy OEROADMAP fully represented on Community Roadmap
tCRIL doesn’t do funny
Nope, nothing.
The “H” in tCRIL stands for humor
Repo moves are mostly going well, only finding small issues and getting them fixed quickly.
Kudos to Feanil (and Ned?) for hammering out the sequencing. It’s been a really valuable way to take our small bumps (e.g. GitHub Pages) in a responsible way. +1
Been having a lot of fun storming on this. I usually shy away from pairing / group working sessions but they ended up being great.
[Carlos] Iterating on WIP PRs in tcril-onboarding
Dinner with Dave! +1+1
Open edX event went very well (props to Eden!) +1+1
Decoupling sync meetings seem productive and help get everyone on the same page
[Sarina] enjoying writing my first OEP (pr here)
[Ed] Maple was released
[Ed] Many Maple blog posts queued up thanks to Sarina and Eden
[Ed] Lead form from http://open.edx.org now directly connected to Salesforce.
[Ed] CLA data now mostly accurate in Salesforce
[Dave] Devstack issues aside, the M1 laptops are nice.
[Dave] Very happy Tutor+ARM64 work decently well, and Braden was the one that did all the hard work of figuring out how to support it properly a few weeks ago (go community!)
[Jenna] Productive series of meetings with folks at MIT, OpenCraft, edX, plus 3 WGs and I feel much more grounded in background/context
[Kyle] It makes me really happy to see that we and potentially edX are moving forward with Tutor. Both because it seems like the right move, and because it’s exciting to see something that was not planned and developed by edX getting official recognition and use.
[Sarina] really enjoyed the Team Fun Time, thanks to Feanil to getting that organized
[Kyle] (could also be Sad, kinda) The experimental-docker-images-in-devstack work I’ve been doing will be mostly obviated by Tutor. But, I learned a ton from the work, and I’m encouraged that new non-Ansible edx-platform images do work with existing devstack services.
[Dave]: I WAS TAKEN OFF THE OPSGENIE ROTATION! :-D +1
Transifex WG meeting was rescheduled, and only a few people were notified. At least the meeting link has been fixed.
[Kyle] Too. Many. Slack. Channels.
[Dave] I don’t mind having too many, but since they’re closed channels, I’m never sure if I’m in all the ones I need to be. Like when I didn’t realize we had a staff channel for the first few days. :-P
[Kyle] This ^
How could we discover the channels when they’re private?
Not sure when to be mad.
Dell laptop still flaky after recent tweaks, mostly using it as a second monitor for browser and slack.
edX “champions” have moved to a distributed model - shared Slack rooms rather than individuals. Evolution of Champions for Core Contributors
50 repos already in `openedx` org and working as expected.
Everyone was invited to the `openedx` org, and nearly everyone accepted.
New m1s arrived and we’ve done a good job setting them up
Draft agenda for road dev workshop nearly complete
Drafts for roadmap maturation workflows + services in progress
Tutor devstack on M1! :-)
OEROADMAP to Comm Roadmap comparison/cleanup making solid progress
[sarina] Caught Simon eating my tree:
Team social lunch was fun & went well! +1
Everyone is funny. I generally enjoy all the meetings because everyone adds their personalities
New laptops!
Scripting portion of repo transfer is in good shape +1
Lack of overwhelming number of meetings here at tCRIL +3
Related: I’ve had lots of time for deep focused work
Having space to focus on a long-overdue technical investment (using the in-repo Dockerfiles) has been really fun and satisfying.
Folks entertained and had interesting things to say on my CMS vs Studio ADR PR.
Productive first two weeks without feeling frenetic - that’s a great combination.
Sometimes hard to get coordination cross-organizations in the community
All the user invitations went out.
All the team shells were migrated (team name/slug/description)
You can run devstack with the new in-repo edx-platform Dockerfile now (not completely smoothed out yet, but things are looking good).
Wrote a unit for MOOC FLOSS course that Xavier & non-OC people are writing
Open Enrollment by the due date
Carlos is a certified belayer at Central Rock Gym now
Onboarding: Completed 1:1s with tCRIL teams; halfway through intro 1:1s with 2U, MIT
Attended one WG, scheduled to attend a second
Asked lots of context/background questions :)
Ed & Diana agreed to move DEPR to GitHub issues
Contributor’s Meetup: Sarina
BTR :
Sarina (fly on wall, not volunteering)
Kyle
Transifex WG:
Carlos
Frontend WG
Marketing WG
Is this marketing Open edX as a whole, or a marketing site for Open edX instances?
Eden
Data WG:
Ed
Security WG (soon):
Feanil
DEPR WG:
Dave
Goals for what we take away from WGs:
Getting things on the roadmap?
This isn’t necessary for some groups, like BTR, which keeps good notes/tickets.
Aim for consistency between practices between groups?
Certain baselines: Finding out what’s going on easily, initiative shared roadmaps for large epics, shared calendars for all working groups so that community members coming in can find things that interest them.
(We’ve had a lot of problems with permissions as chairs change.)
Different groups will operate differently. Just looking for a small framework. Meetings will be run differently, different cadences, etc. But basic things like calendaring, e.g. using GitHub projects vs. Trello, etc., promote public rooms, etc.
Note: Not everyone in the Transifex group uses GitHub.
David J. wrote this: Working groups
Observe for a couple of months before trying to suggest format changes.
Carlos (SWE) started!
Jenna (Product Mgr) started!
TCRIL started!
Thanksgiving break!
Loving the tag-teaming on the Github repo transfer work.
Barrier(Synergy Fork) works great without too much trouble to share Keyboard, Mouse and Clipboard between two computers.
[Carlos] First two weeks were pretty smooth!
We committed to moving off of TravisCI instead of bringing the baggage with us, and we’re nearly there.
I am enjoying GH issues for a lot of reasons and I’m hoping we stick with it!
I’m enjoying writing code and not fixing prod fires.
+1
I like the async standup + sync parking lot discussions.
+1
Accounts transfer went more smoothly than I thought it would. Thank you to everyone for all the help at various points.
The Maple changes page, while much better than nothing, is non-exhaustive and in parts outdated. I hope we can do better for Nutmeg, but I’m not sure how.
+100. I wonder if this is something we could automate a bit by a bot (ie, when a commit msg is `feat:` we send a message on merge that’s like “congrats on your merged feature, add it to this page!”)
Maybe we could grab all of them from git and spit them out somewhere automatically?
That’s partially what conventional commits are for, right?
My concern with that is that it’s a LOT to wade through across tons of repos. I’d love a per-squad summary of their most impactful and important changes.
Carlos had to set up all his accounts twice in two days
The dell laptops we got don’t run linux very well and don’t have a trackpoint.
? Feanil or Kyle?
Added 3 new CCs (Matjaz & Ali Hugo & Nizar Mahmoud), bringing total to 31
Merged OEP-31 (i18n/l10n infra standards for MFEs)
[all] Heroically moved over a gazillion accounts, passwords, preferences, etc
First (two) merged PRs