2022-10-12 Arch Coord Meeting notes

5 mins

Follow-up on action items from last meeting

15 mins

ADR / OEP / Forum Review

@Dave Ormsbee (Axim)

Process / Docs

• docs: Clarify next steps when OEPS merge provisionally. by hurtstotouchfire · Pull Request #387 · openedx/open-edx-proposals (merged)

• Ags/storybook docs by adamstankiewicz · Pull Request #636 · openedx/frontend-app-learner-portal-enterprise (draft)

  • @Braden MacDonald: Is this of interest to you?

• docs: amend OEP-18 to further discourage VCS URL dependencies by kdmccormick · Pull Request #390 · openedx/open-edx-proposals “Forbid VCS URL Python Dependencies” (draft)

• Maintainership Pilot

• docs: Mark OEP-48 as Approved and OEP-23 as replaced by xitij2000 · Pull Request #395 · openedx/open-edx-proposals (open) “OEP-48: Brand Customization” (OEP link)

• OEP-57 Core Product by sarina · Pull Request #398 · openedx/open-edx-proposals (open) – but really, look at the wiki page.

Architecture / Feature Implementation

• fix: catalog_query is now unique on the content filter hash and inclu… by iloveagent57 · Pull Request #507 · openedx/enterprise-catalog “Allowing inclusion of exec ed content in Catalog Queries” (merged)

• docs: Add ADR for event bus use case. by dianakhuang · Pull Request #3632 · openedx/course-discovery “15. Use Event Bus to Replace Refresh Course Metadata” (merged)

• feat!: Remove `kafka_consumer` package and plugin by timmc-edx · Pull Request #74 · edx/edx-arch-experiments “feat!: Remove kafka_consumer package and plugin” (merged)

• docs: Update OEP-15 to match current implementation by xitij2000 · Pull Request #396 · openedx/open-edx-proposals (open) “Course-wide Custom JavaScript”

Forums

• How to create, update course using API

• Changelogs and reducing developer busywork

• Looking to create Eduverse like metaverse where students can explore

Closed

• https://github.com/openedx/blockstore/pull/33 (outdated)

• https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-learner-portal-enterprise/pull/635

Olive was cut!

Feedback

• This should be posted as a summary–discuss tomorrow.

• Newsletter?

• Weekly summary blog post?

• These ADRs represent wildly different levels of comprehensibility and relevance.

  • How do we help people write better summaries for these things? How does this relate to the greater platform?

• Feanil: Put out a survey for what people want in terms of communication modes?

• Simon: Talks about reviving the edX engineering blog, as a way of attracting talent. How to publish to get other people in software eng. to be interested in what 2U/edX is doing.

  • Simon: But we already write these things (e.g. OEP PRs). We don’t really talk about them after they’re accepted. OEPs not being circulated enough. How to onboard Open edX engineers at 2U?

    • Nobody’s pushing this forward at the moment. Don’t know how to engage the rest of the community.

• Ned: As we grow, there are more and more channels of communication, not sure how that’s avoidable.

  • Felipe: eduNEXT offered contests for blog posts, with prizes being tickets to the conference next year

  • Simon: Not clear how to motivate folks to write this, or how valuable these are seen to be.

Backstage!

• Felipe: Backstage federation?

  • Feanil: You can monitor all openedx org catalog files and pull in from there, on top of your own. There are some permissions issues that need to be worked out (GitHub app on the org to get around rate limiting).

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