2024-04-29 BTR Meeting Minutes

Date

Apr 29, 2024

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes	Action Items

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Action Items

Redwood
- The Redwood release will be cut on May 9th, as decided during the last planning session.
- The release date remains the same 10/06
- There is still a bunch of work in progress. Here is how you can help:
  - PR reviews:
    - Priority 1: Python upgrade
      1. https://github.com/openedx/course-discovery/pull/4320#issuecomment-2056737242
      2. https://github.com/openedx/course-discovery/pull/4328
    - Priority 2: Studio MFEs (these are listed in priority order)
      1. https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/34457
      2. Tagging for Course Unit page (PR link coming)
    - Priority 3: Implementing Sidebar Nav via plugin

@Jorge Londoño

BTR chair - @Jorge Londoño
- Preparation work for cut-off
  - Notifying the final cut-off date in all Community channels
  - Prioritizing and processing identified risks and calls for help
  - Kicking off the asynchronous retrospective for Redwood
- Risks and concerns for the release date
  - Is a month enough to complete the testing process including bug fixing?
  - Given the 4-week window to get all the work done, should we schedule a weekly follow-up session once the testing process starts?
- Call for help
Release manager - @Maksim Sokolskiy
- Preparation work for cut-off
- Risks and concerns for the release date
  - We should start to work on the Tutor environment and Tutor plugins this week
- Call for help
Testing coordinator - @Peter Pinch @Dean Jay Mathew
- Preparation work for cut-off
- Risks and concerns
  - Coordination between Peter and Dean who are in two very different time zones
  - Coordination with the Product WG. You can follow the discussion here
- Call for help
Release documentation expert - @Chris Patti
- Preparation work for cut-off
- Risks and concerns
  - Apart from waiting for the product features documentation to be ready, there are no major concerns.
- Call for help
Bug triagers - @Maria Grimaldi @Donato Bracuto @Ghassan
- Preparation work for cut-off
- Risks and concerns
- Call for help
Security patcher - @Maga Jaimes
- Preparation work for cut-off
- Risks and concerns
- Call for help

@Jorge Londoño

@Sarina Canelake proposes to keep both release notes, the ones from product and the ones from the BTR WG more focused to the operator role, separated. She suggests that @Chris Patti mention the product release notes in the operator ones and redirect people from there. @Sarina Canelake and @Kyle McCormick offered their help to move this forward.

@Jorge Londoño will notify the final cut-off date in all Community channels
@Maksim Sokolskiy will start to work on the Tutor environment and Tutor plugins this week to get the testing process started as soon as possible.
@Peter Pinch will make a post to kick off the testing process.
@Chris Patti, @Kyle McCormick, and @Sarina Canelake will keep the discussion and coordination async to plan and align the release notes effort.

Release process changes

@Kyle McCormick

We agreed on changing the frequency of the BTR meetup from bi-weekly to weekly until Redwood is released on 10/06.