2024-11-04 BTR Meeting Minutes

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Recap from last meeting

@Maria Grimaldi

• Issue updates on Sumac sample preparation, sandbox configurations, and Indigo theme default settings.

• Need for a secondary sandbox for experimental testing and header slot tests.

• Nomination process update, now managed by the chair, with self-nominations allowed.

• @Maksim Sokolskiy nominated @Farhaan Bukhsh for release manager, support is appreciated: https://discuss.openedx.org/t/named-release-manager-nomination-farhaan-bukhsh/14252

Redwood retrospective action items follow-up

• https://github.com/openedx/wg-build-test-release/labels/retrospective

No new updates.

Sumac

• sumac.1 ~ 2024-12-09

  • Release blockers

    • https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/28/views/17

  • Process overview

    • Testing process - @Peter Pinch @Andrés González

      • Ongoing work

      • Red flags, risks, and concerns

      • Call for help

    • New features testing - @Chelsea Rathbun

      • Ongoing work

      • Red flags, risks, and concerns

      • Call for help

    • Release management - @Maksim Sokolskiy @Farhaan Bukhsh

      • Ongoing work

      • Red flags, risks, and concerns

      • Call for help

    • Release documentation - @Chris Patti

      • Ongoing work

      • Red flags, risks, and concerns

      • Call for help

    • Debugging - @Maria Grimaldi

      • Ongoing work

      • Release blockers

      • Call for help

No release blockers identified.

• 12% completion rate. No new release blockers identified.

• Regarding header plugin slots: testing planned, with PR sandbox setup in progress for plugin compatibility.

• New tests for Aspects were added to the testing sheet.

• Discussion on the need to define Indigo as the default theme and determine the appropriate dark mode testing criteria.

• Backports pending for mobile.

• Release notes generation blocked due to missing class in Django setup.

• Active debugging in opened issues, no concerns so far.

• Indigo theme dark mode issue noted for triage.

• @Andrés González will remind team members to increase testing efforts. @Chelsea Rathbun to reach out to educators WG for testing support on basic functionalities.

• @Chelsea Rathbun to coordinate with Brian Smith on header slot tests and update the testing spreadsheet with @Andrés González support.

• @Adolfo Brandes will finalize PR to facilitate slots testing in the sandbox.

• @Maria Grimaldi to reach out indigo themes maintainers for testing support.

• @Maria Grimaldi to review issue with docs generation.

• @Maria Grimaldi will share meeting notes for next Monday on Friday in consideration of US holiday.