Operation Tame: Proposed Epics

Brian Beggs and I came up with the following epics:

• Document Best Practices and Architecture Decisions
  1. Code Structure: Python modules/django app, Tests, Assets, urls.py, settings.py
  2. Assets: JS, Pattern Library, Sass, etc.
  3. Interfaces:
     
     1. api.py
     2. REST
     3. Messaging (async versus sync)
  4. Tests: Thoughts on Tests
  5. Repos vs django-apps vs IDAs
     • Start with How to add a new feature to LMS or Studio
  6. xBlocks can use django!
• Validate the Seams
  • What Engineering thinks - based on existing codebase and team review
  • What Prod thinks - based on JIRA components
• Discovery
  • Can we co-locate assets?
  • Find/create automated tools for refactoring
  • Metrics
    • Complexity analysis tool
    • Dependency analysis tool
• Dependency Graph
  • Use as ongoing metric to validate progress
  • Use as input for organizing folders and extracting components
• Organize
  • Group by functionality using automated tool(s)
  • Validate progress using metrics