Data WG 2022-12-14 Meeting notes

15 min

Working together async

@Brian Mesick

Ideation around working together asynchronously

• Useful conversations happen in Slack, but are time limited. Fewer conversations happen in Discuss, but perhaps more could if we cared do (and turned notifications on for the topic).

• Aside from Slack and Discuss what options do people feel like make sense for this WG?

• Relatively few people have tasks on the board, but perhaps bi-weekly updates from members on Discuss with meetings as necessary for demos.

5 min

Open edX Conference talks!

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5 min

Upcoming RFP

@Brian Mesick

We hope to announce a request for proposals to move forward the work on using redis streams as an alternative message bus to Kafka. Preliminary work is outlined in this issue, but the exact scope and milestones are not yet defined. This would likely be a fairly large chunk of funded work. I’ll update the WG when the RFP gets posted!

10 min

Tracking Log, Caliper, xAPI Event Lifecycles

@Brian Mesick

Some new events were added with the Discussions MFE, which is great! However it’s hard to know where to look for guidance on how to work with events.

Naming, documenting, who to notify when changing, how to version, deprecating… these are all thorny issues that we should find a way to communicate to developers. Several OEPs cover pieces of the puzzle, but I think this group should work towards a central document that we can link to and share.

I wrote this issue in the hopes of addressing this, but haven’t had time to work it. Is it sufficient? What would you like to see as an event author or consumer?