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How to get things from tCRIL

Proposal: create a new (issue? JIRA?) and have tCRIL add in the same way we will eventually expect edX internal engineers to report issues. Should probably have a tCRIL request tag.

Ownership?

• Tutor is still owned by Overhang

• We would write our own plugins into Tutor and control that.

• There are proprietary extensions

• We could fork it at any time.

We have a vested interest in using what the rest of the Open edX ecosystem uses, and we’re hoping that the investment in getting this to work well for 2U/edX benefits the rest of the community as well.

Tutor Discussion

• The documentation is very geared for deployment.

• Difficult to find where the code is to modify for development.

• No test data available

  • No test data in devstack either

  • arch-bom was working on a possible solution for this, but we didn’t get far enough into it.

    • https://open-edx-proposals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/best-practices/oep-0037-bp-test-data.html

    • https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/2513076453/OEP-37+Dev+Data+implementation

    • Got blocked on availability of a team to partner with in trying out the implementation

  • Quokkas enterprise team is interested in helping out.

• Feedback from 3 folks:

  • Local development doc:

    • Using Tutor for local development

  • Mostly getting it up and running, not doing development yet.

  • Concerns about using remotes for development

Current progress

• M1 Macs have not reached the team yet.

• Requests with AWS Playground to get access to the M1 hardware

• How to doing devstack testing on different hardware?

  • Talk to Tim McCormick, Adam Blackwell about thoughts about this.

• Tutor installed and running with ecommerce and mfe plugins.

  • Haven’t managed to test ecommerce yet with a test purchase yet.

• frontend-app-learning is going to be on by default for Nutmeg.

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New Issues

• What is the biggest pain point?

  • Documentation seems like an obvious one.

    • Steps to get to editing code are manual right now.

      • Update the docs to make it obvious about how to mount volumes; currently hidden in https://docs.tutor.overhang.io/dev.html#manual-bind-mount-to-any-directory

    • MFE development is definitely a concern

  • Running unit tests?

  • How do we attach a debugger?

    • We can ask Regis about this in Open edX Slack.

• Which tools do people use?

  • Pycharm, Webstorm, SublimeText

• Docker Desktop questions

  • We could look into alternatives? Rancher desktop seems like a good one.

  • We(2U) is planning on paying the fees.

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Assign tasks

• If you have Tutor set up, try developing on an MFE.

• If you haven’t set up Tutor yet, set up Tutor.

• Try running some tests and seeing what breaks.

• Reaching out to Overhang about Tutor questions

  • What are the concerns around unit tests currently?

    • https://docs.tutor.overhang.io/dev.html#running-edx-platform-unit-tests

    • There’s a few discussion threads already in progress: https://discuss.overhang.io/t/unit-tests-improvements-for-tutor/2178

    • https://discuss.overhang.io/t/running-unit-tests-in-tutor/551

  • Has anyone tried running Tutor with a debugger or with an IDE like PyCharm?

  • Interaction between mounting your own volume and running tests?

    • There seems to be a custom test settings file for running tests. Where do we get this?

• End goal: Matrix of services/MFEs and what works/doesn’t work in Tutor (tests, code modification, etc)

• Sharing a page