2020-05-29 Retrospective

VEM reaches Prod!

• Some configurations are still missing and accounts (AWS)

• Testing can be started soon

• Can be monitored on NewRelic

• Devstack: Some decisions are needed to integrate it inside the devstack.

• Transcriptions are expensive ~100$ for 3 videos.

  • 3PlayMedia

  • CIELO24

More focused after Ramazan +2

• Mainly because no break is needed in the evening for breaking fast

• In Ramzan, we felt a little down near the Iftar.

• Back to normal !!!

Slack Donut meetup with Cambridge

• Anyone can schedule a meeting

• Meeting time from 30 mints to 1 hour.

• Get to know each other better.

• Discussed seasons and board games.

Eid -ul-Fitr holidays

• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were off – Pretty long weekend

Triage issues quickly

Regular 1x1s with the team members on Rotation

Assign OKRs to individuals

Working from home update

Security XSS tickets plan

• New branch for security fixes sustaining-mavericks-security-fixes

  • Link to branch @ github

• Good to have the ticket number within commit message for every fix

• One release cycle for the whole branch

  • https://github.com/edx/edx-platform-private/pull/178

• One notification for XSS patch

• One announcement in OpenedX forum

Track your work

• Performance Blogs (Mavericks)archived

• Still in initial phase – I would be able to share and have a meeting when it's completed.