Topics

• How do devstack problems get addressed? Who’s responsible for this?

  • Currently, whoever is impacted and/or the team that owns the service which initial troubleshooting identifies as the cause

    • This doesn’t work super well, we’re hoping decentralized devstack will make it more clear that each team is responsible for maintaining its own dev environment

• What about pipeline ownership and problems?

  • SRE owns infrastructure (GoCD, Kubernetes, etc.)

  • Architecture owns basic pattern of deployment?

  • Service owners own the pipelines for their own service (but often need to ask for help due to knowledge/experience gaps)

  • Pipelines are in the process of being switched from GoCD to Kubernetes

• Type hinting: Do we want it? Everywhere or just in APIs? etc?

  • Yes we want it

  • Nobody is actively working on it at the moment

  • Anywhere we add it should start running the type checker to catch problems, and fix them

  • Got into the weeds about testing, where to run tests, can we stop using build-jenkins, etc.

  • Blocked in edx-platform by sys.path hacks - Cale is slowly chipping away at this

  • There’s a risk of specifying types too precisely (when the code is more lenient than the annotated types)

  • How are types better than good code documentation?

    • Automated checks in CI to make sure they stay

• Q&A with Feanil on Inter-service Eventing

  • Have we decided what to use?

    • We’ve decided to try Pulsar first, but aren’t positive it’ll be the final choice

  • When is it happening?

    • Later this year

    • When we have a use case which has developers available to work on a pilot

• Preview of decentralized devstack?

  • https://github.com/edx/open-edx-proposals/tree/master/oeps/oep-0005/decisions

  • https://github.com/edx/enterprise-catalog/blob/master/docs/decentralized_devstack_workflows.rst

Backlog of Questions/Discussions

• React - Discussions Forum - editor input - draft JS

• Questions about frontend-platform and edx-platform (AJ and David Joy)

• Branding: How can we keep branded edX Strings separate from the open source code (right now English string values are also edX-branded string values) +3

• Shopping cart deprecation with Diana

  • lessons learned, knowledge sharing on dead code, etc.