2023-09-05 CC Working Group Meeting Notes

New meeting schedule - issues/feedback?

@Xavier Antoviaque

Comment during the meeting, or async at Contributors Meetup - Call for participation & meeting time poll

Blocked bug - completion.enable_completion_tracking waffle flag

@Jorge Londoño? (Pinged by Natalia in forum discussion)

• Contributors Meetup Async Update - July 22nd, 2023 - August 4th, 2023

• completion.enable_completion_tracking waffle flag disablement doesn't remove the progress tracking UI · Issue #245 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• Talking about waffle flags - did the decision-making process & doc improve since Contributors Meetup Async Update - June 24th, 2023 - July 7th, 2023 ?

• Jorge will reach out to @Feanil Patel to discuss the process or better documenting the waffle flags.

How do we make sure strings in frontend-app-communications are sent to Transifex?

@Pierre Mailhot

(and frontend-app-course-authoring, and frontend-lib-content-components that is using it)

• These are included as official in Olive.

• The message are properly handled in the code, but they are not being pushed to Transifex.

• FE App Component is another issue, it is not tagged as it’s a library. There’s also a bug for this library that needs to be address. @Adolfo Brandes has context on this issue and will investigate.

• Related bugs and Slack threads:

  • No Transifex resource!!! · Issue #146 · openedx/frontend-app-communications

  • Slack thread on frontend-app-communications: https://openedx.slack.com/archives/C037XDB9KN1/p1691157409234449

  • Slack thread on problem editors: https://openedx.slack.com/archives/C049JQZFR5E/p1692114945050299

Review needed on opaque keys PR

@Braden MacDonald

fix: type hints weren't installed properly, add type hints for Django Fields by bradenmacdonald · Pull Request #259 · openedx/opaque-keys

• Looking for a couple of additional outside reviewers

Action items:

• Maria will review, Stefania will ask Ghassan and Alexz will try to get someone from Raccoon Gang.

Maintainership phase 3

Follow-up from last meeting:

• Scope of maintainership determined? edx-platform? all of the repos that are installed as part of open edX?

  • List of repositories that are included in named releases, but don’t have a maintainer, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rMwbRldYwp-xPsAG2vijqwB__9M7P2AgjDxX31G7ucA/edit#gid=965363198

  • The goal is still to include all dependencies from the Open edX stable releases, including edx-platform

• Start date? Pilot Phase 3 indicates Aug 1st 2023

  • New data September 7th

• Still awaiting decision-making?

Action items from the last meeting:

• @Jorge Londoño to reach out to Ed to explore how the community can better support the maintainer program Phase Three.

Additional question:

Are all the members of this program contributors? Is that a prerequisite or not?

A: We have made some folks CC’s on a “fast track” to support taking over maintaining repos that don’t have a maintainer. This is decided on a case-by-case basis, but it’s usually non-controversial for repos that are currently without a maintainer.

PR Review Delays

@Xavier Antoviaque

Created summary & action items from the discussion thread - do you agree? any takers?

• Advertise to core contributors to take on more permissions rights · Issue #102 · openedx/wg-coordination · GitHub

• Faciliate monitoring and guiding of OSPRs · Issue #103 · openedx/wg-coordination · GitHub

• Core contributors as backup reviewers · Issue #104 · openedx/wg-coordination · GitHub

• Contributor role (vs "core contributor") · Issue #105 · openedx/wg-coordination · GitHub

• Xavier is looking for feedback on these suggestions and potentially additional ideas about how to accelerate reviews

• This is predominately focused on code core contributors, but non-coding contributors can also help with, say, product review.

Site Operations module for the Dev Onboarding course (by @Sarina Canelake): “This would be a high level overview of how to get a site running with Tutor. If these instructions exist in any form could someone point me at them?” (ref)

Some work discussed by @Matjaz Gregoric and @Lawrence McDaniel at Contributors Meetup Async Update - July 8th, 2023 - July 21st, 2023

Action items from the last meeting:

• @Jorge Londoño to reach out to Regis regarding the Tutor documentation for the Site Operations Module.

• @Edward Zarecor suggests that we create an outline for the proposed course similar to what was done for the demo course.

TOC Decision Requests: Looking for suggestions, comments and questions about OEP-63

@Xavier Antoviaque

Without familiarity with the specific issue, Jorge encouraged the team members to review the thread for better insights before the next discussion.

Action items from the last meeting:

• Obtain missing responses and feedback needed on the OEP PR (@Xavier Antoviaque @Edward Zarecor )