2022-12-19 BTR Meeting notes

Date

Dec 19, 2022

Participants

@Pierre Mailhot
@Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)
@Adolfo Brandes
@Peter Pinch
@Feanil Patel
@Ghassan Maslamani
@Maksim Sokolskiy
@Matjaz Gregoric
@Tobias Macey

Recordings

Discussion topics

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes
5 minutes	Action items update	Adolfo	Check progress on the previhttps://sessionize.com/2023-open-edx-conferenceous meeting’s action items.
10 minutes	Mini Olive retrospective	@Adolfo Brandes	Went pretty smoothly, thanks @Matjaz Gregoric! Bugs were in the code, but that was mostly due to us bringing in MFEs last-minute
5 minutes	Testing update	@Adolfo Brandes	We should add items to the test plan based on the bugs we found this time around We should remove items from the test plan that shouldn’t be there We should test upgrades
5 minutes	Release notes	@Peter Pinch	Release notes are merged & published. 🎉 Thanks @Peter Pinch! If folks have issues, where should they open them? BTR board for issues in Olive Upstream repos if possible
5 minutes	Organizational topics	@Adolfo Brandes	Chair: @Jorge Londoño has volunteered to be chair for the Palm cycle (🎉🎉🎉) Unifying the BTR, DevExp, and a potential new DevOps working group under one roof.
	Release Naming	@Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)	We need to pick names, and have a process for picking names. https://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/database/lppi/index_common.shtml https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Trees_and_Shrubs https://www.treenames.net/common_tree_names.html https://www.gardentags.com/plant-encyclopedia/a-to-z/q https://www.wood-database.com/ https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/ We will pick one by Jan 15th, possibly with rank-choice voting of names suggested by the group.
	non-openedx repos	@Peter Pinch	The olive release surfaced a number of repos that are (still) outside the openedx org, e.g edx-sga. How/do we address these? Criteria for bringing repos into openedx: Going forward, we would like them to be maintained according to the Maintainer’s Pilot guidelines Tools for Maintainers — Latest documentation How To Maintain a Repository — Latest documentation
5 minutes	Openedx Con CFP	@Feanil Patel	Open edX Conference - 2023: Call for Proposals

Action items

@Adolfo Brandes will update the calendar

@Adolfo Brandes will help onboard @Jorge Londoño into the Chair role

@Jorge Londoño will start chairing the meeting on January 9

@Adolfo Brandes will start an Olive retro thread in the forum

Decisions

Our next meeting is going to be on January 9th, 2023, because nobody will be around on January 2nd, and January 16th is a federal holiday in the US.
BTR will pick a name for the “Q” release in January via a ranked vote on options members nominate