2023-01-10 DevExp Meetup Notes

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@Kyle McCormick: Type-checking your Tutor plugin

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• @Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)

  • Feedback wanted: Development Environment Vision

  • Starting discovery, other nominations for consideration welcome: [Discovery] Cloud-based developer environments · Issue #82 · edx/edx-arch-experiments

  • Another upcoming discovery task, opinions and nominations welcome: [Discovery] Docker Desktop alternatives · Issue #93 · edx/edx-arch-experiments

  • Coming soon: GitHub Actions-based repo health dashboard with local browsing and exploration via Metabase

• @Régis Behmo

  • Implementing the plugin indexes TEP Tutor Enhancement Proposal (TEP): Plugin indices

  • Simplify tutor hooks API feat: refactor hooks API for simplification by regisb · Pull Request #775 · overhangio/tutor

• @Connor Haugh (Deactivated)

  • Implementing the “auto-mount“ plugin to make local dev easier

• @Zach Hancock (Deactivated)

  • Wrapped up some basic instructions for Tutor: Creating a New IDA Plugin

    • just focused on localdev right now

• @Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)

  • We are thinking a lot about what metrics we will use to determine the effect of our dev ex work on Arch BOM. Once we have a clearer idea we can hopefully share out to the community.

  • DevEx work got pushed back a little due to some more Event Bus Funtimes

• @Kyle McCormick

  • I think I successfully moved node_modules outside of edx-platform in Tutor. It involved rewriting part of pavelib/assets.py.

  • @Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated) will share Arbi-BOM/FED-BOMs work in this area

    • Removed paver code and scripts specific to unit testing by zubairshakoorarbisoft · Pull Request #31180 · openedx/edx-platform

• @Maria Fernanda Magallanes Z

  • What do you know about the proposal of merging BTR, DevOps, and DevExp working groups?

  • https://discuss.openedx.org/t/proposal-devops-interest-group-structure/8881

    • Related info:

    • https://discuss.openedx.org/t/good-devops-issues-to-work-on-january-2023/9072

    • GitHub - openedx/wg-devops: Issue repository for the DevOps Working Group

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• Becca [2u -ArchBOM]

  • Not being able to do library development work for discovery in tutor

• @Connor Haugh (Deactivated)

  • I ran into trouble with the tutor filters api

    • Kyle helped me work through the distinctions between:

      • Filters and filters,

      • usage of `COMPOSE_LOCAL_TMP` and `COMPOSE_MOUNTS`

    • Action item: I should comment on the output of below so it meets my needs

      • feat: refactor hooks API for simplification by regisb · Pull Request #775 · overhangio/tutor is Regis' attempt to do so I should comment on it.

• @Kyle McCormick

  • the legacy frontend tooling in edx-platform is such a box of mysteries, at least to me

  • struggling to think of a way of avoiding pip install -e . from needing to be run when mounting edx-platform. I have some ideas but they all seem hacky (pip install -e . in an entrypoint script)

  • there might be a different form of pip install? bypassing the -e means we actually need a package proper to install

  • Regis: maybe have init scripts that run install -e that only run in development?

• @Zach Hancock (Deactivated)

  • Working with a vendor (Verificient) who is having trouble in their integration environment with certain static assets (web workers out of an npm package) needed by proctoring, it seems they don’t get built into the image.

    • still investigating

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