2023-02-03 Maintainers' Office Hours Notes

Attendees:

Agenda

• BOM presentation of the new repo health dashboard

• Repos for releases

  • Problem statement: What would be the list of all the things included in a release to be able to say that the release was fully maintained.

  • Conversation:

    • Tutor cannot include the learner record MFE because there is no tutor plugin for credentials

    • Does something need to be in Tutor to be considered in a release

      • Currently, as of Olive, this is not true.

      • [KB] LR MFE is included as experimental. Tutor support should be considered a baseline requirement.

    • Ned had started the exercise of figuring out what this list would be

      • Code: repo-tools/edx_repo_tools/find_dependencies/find_dependencies.py at master · openedx/repo-tools

    • Feanil also did some discover around this as well while unwinding the pypi credentials

    • Ambiguity around whether things are in or not makes it fell less urgent.

    • Problematic examples

      • Taxonomy connection

        • poorly documented

        • used by the community

        • what next

    • Potential phases

      • Phase 3, all MFEs are maintained that are part of the core product offering

      • Phase 4, core product offering including backend services

      • Phase 5, supported extensions

      • Phase N, edx-platform is maintained

      • No repos

      • ADRs and lazy concensus for maintainership

    • Feeling that the current phase, phase 2, requirements are unclear to folks.

      • phase 1 is clear

      • phase 2 is messy.

  • By policy we're going to say the all new repos need to have a named maintainer.

  • Conversation originated around creating a repo for the typescript configuration file.

  • In this case FED-BOM has agreed to be the named maintainer in this case.