Charter

It’s become clear that there is an acute need to support new Tutor users and plugin developers. It’s also clear that Tutor maintainers benefit from hearing feedback from people who are using the tool. 

Please join our users’ group for sharing help, tips, and feedback on using Tutor and developing Tutor plugins. Bring your questions, and get ready for some live debugging! Expert or newbie, all are welcome.

Announcements will be posted to Slack in #tutor-maintenance

Recordings and Transcripts

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hdlItbQ6RK8iHeOZXahpo_vIo5offr_h

Agenda and Notes

We meet every other week. Our schedule and video conferencing link is on the Working Group Calendar. The meeting is usually hosted by @Kyle McCormick .

You can add topics below ahead of time, or add them during the meeting.

2024-11-18

2024-11-04

• WordPress plugin for commerce

  • GitHub - CodeWithEmad/tutor-contrib-wordpress: Tutor plugin that makes it a bit easier to interact with Open edX Commerce WordPress Plugin

• Speed of change to microfrontends makes it difficult to want to contribute

• Nginx vs Caddy Performance

• robots.txt for most MFEs

  • Caddyfile could add a robots.txt like this to the MFE container, with varying restrictions based on the MFEs within the container:

  • # robots.txt {% for app in MFE_APPS %} {% if app['no-crawl'] % } User-agent: * Disallow: /{app} {% edif % } {% endfor %} User-agent: * Disallow: /learning/course/*/progress # Don't crawl learner progress pages

     

2024-10-21

• (if you’re watching the recording, jump to ~0:13 for the beginning of conversation)

• Kyle/Hina: Tour of GitHub - overhangio/tutor-indigo: An elegant, customizable theme for Open edX

• Emad:Superset does not support Arabic language -RTL- layout · Issue #25258 · apache/superset

• Max: Mini update on RG’s use of verdaccio to mitigate the fact that npm-install is regularly timing out / getting rate-limited

2024-09-23

• Improve Tutor's shell autocompletion response time · Issue #26 · openedx/wg-devops

• AI

• perf: don't unneccessarily rebuild dev assets by kdmccormick · Pull Request #39 · kdmccormick/tutor

  • Kyle will work on this in November

• Database migrations are slow

  • An older doc on this: Everything About Database Migrations | Comment

2024-08-26

• tutor-legacy-assets idea

  • too many MFEs

    • agreed

    • we’ll use existing MFEs for new pages

    • https://open-edx-proposals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architectural-decisions/oep-0065-arch-frontend-composability.html

• tutor-contrib-verdaccio update: not conclusive

  • Test Verdaccio plugin for build improvements · Issue #220 · overhangio/tutor-mfe

• ubuntu upgrade – maintainers will need to update their dockerfiles

  • Ubuntu Upgrade · Issue #1113 · overhangio/tutor

  • note: open edx upstream will just test on ubuntu-latest going forward

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2024-08-12

• Follow-up on tutor-contrib-verdaccio.

  • Official plugin? Core? Not ready? Need more time to evaluate?

  • Test Verdaccio plugin for build improvements · Issue #220 · overhangio/tutor-mfe

  • The plugin doesn’t work for Docker Desktop but only for Orbstack - need to check the docker.internal for docker desktop

  • We will continue the conversation in the discuss and tutor-mfe issue

• We tutor maintainers should keep an eye on DEPR tickets and make sure plugins get deprecated if the upstream code gets deprecated

2024-07-29

• Moises: Dockerfile reference I wanted to use the RUN --mount=type=ssh instruction to install private packages. This command needs an additional flag to the build command that I can add via the DOCKER_BUILD_COMMAND filter. The problem is that the --ssh=default=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK flag gets escaped by shlex. As a workaround is possible to use os.environ.get("SSH_AUTH_SOCK") but some people may not want to print those values to the stdout.

  • what type of packages?

  • Zameel: Installing npm packages from a private github repo

    • cloned with personal access token, installed locally

    • didn’t need to use --mount=type=ssh

  • Dawoud: is it --ssh=default=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK or --ssh default=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK ?

  • Kyle: --ssh=default=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK – what is getting escaped?

  • Max: we are also interested in this answer

    • @Moisés González do you have a POC to try?

    • RG is interested in helping to implement or test the proposal

    • In our non-tutor deployments we extensively used SSH key for private repos cloning

• Max’s verdaccio plugin: Local NPM registry for MFE builds

  • Issues

    • doesn’t work without host.docker.internal hostname

  • Important insight- timing

    • very good time for low parallelism (max 2) – 12min