Recording:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IP8eK59iNkny14xLb0QrPrfP8OXr8WQp/view

Where we started (late 2022)

Goals

• Keep improving Tutor

• Maintenance / quick-wins for Devstack

• Investigate other dev tooling options (e.g. DevSpace)

• Platform-level ops improvements (static assets, config, dependencies, etc)

Structure

• Kyle (Axim) full-time

• Becca and several 2U other engineers

• Various engineers from community orgs

Where we are (early 2024)

Goals

• Keep improving Tutor, iron out any remaining blockers for former Devstack users

• Keep Devstack working

• Investigate other dev tooling options (e.g. DevSpace)

  • Jeremy B has left 2U

  • Lots of work to move over to something like DevSpace

  • Don’t have the resources to keep moving on this

• Continue platform-level ops improvements

• Developer data

  • management commands in edx-django-utils for this

    • https://github.com/openedx/edx-django-utils/pull/369

  • don’t have the YAMLs of the data yet

• PR sandboxes

Structure

• Kyle (Axim) part-time

• A couple 2U engineers

  • Becca has let 2U

• Volunteers from a few community orgs

• Adjacent to DevX:

  • Open edX Maintainers

  • Tutor Maintainers

Where we’re going (2024 and beyond) - Kyle’s proposal

No objections – we will do this

Goals

• Converge on Tutor; make it the official dev environment

• Support Tutor users and plugin developers

• Devstack – Either DEPR it or just KTLO (“keep the lights on”). Don’t invest more into it.

  • RG uses Devstack, is trying to move to Tutor

    • MFE dev is still harder

      • Developing MFEs in Docker doesn’t seem slow so far for RG

    • Ecomm and credentials – not supported for local dev?

      • Max opened a PR

• Platform-level ops improvements

  • Static assets - Kyle

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• Dev Data?

  • Diana would like to add some dev data to edx-platform

    • She’ll share out PRs for other to use as templates

• end-to-end local testing

  • Max will link here:

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Structure

• Dissolve DevX WG

• Transitions:

  • Devstack maintenance → 2U

  • Tutor core+plugin maintenance and improvements → Tutor Maintainers

  • Helping Tutor users and plugin devs → A new bi-weekly “Tutor Users Group”

  • Platform simplification → Relevant Open edX repo maintainers and/or “Maintence WG”

  • Dev Data → 2U and/or Open edX repo maintainers and/or DevOps WG

Notes, other proposals