2024-02-01 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes
Date, time, location
Feb 1, 2024 at 15:00 UTC
🎥Recording
Participants
@Brian Smith
@Fox Piacenti
@Yagnesh Nayi
@Adolfo Brandes
Khaled (Edspirit)
Summary
Front-end maintenance, e-commerce, and frontend app development. 0:34
Adolfo encourages volunteers to maintain repositories.
Front-end app payment and e-commerce are being re-evaluated for Redwood.
Adolfo discusses ongoing pluggability work, with three PRs in flight for the front end.
Improving release process and developer experience. 14:25
Brian Smith and Adolfo discuss the importance of testing and development, with a focus on improving the release process.
They emphasize the need for more MFE development in Tutor to catch pain points and make the development environment better for MFEs.
Developers should prioritize building for the entire community, not just their specific needs.
Contributing to Open edX project. 20:21
Brian Smith and Adolfo discuss moving courses from the "@edx" namespace to the "@openedx" namespace.
Yagnesh expresses interest in contributing to the project and working as a maintainer.
Brian Smith explains nomination process for core contributors, while Yagnesh seeks guidance on becoming a maintainer.
Open edX contributor roles and responsibilities. 26:55
Brian Smith explains the process of becoming a core contributor in the community: nominations are made on the forums, and once the nomination period ends, the access to merge PRs is granted.
Adolfo clarifies that core contributor status comes with the responsibility of reviewing and merging PRs, but not necessarily coding or programming skills are required.
Adolfo suggests contributing to an existing repository to become a core contributor.