2023-12-04 DevX Meetup Notes

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Scheduled Topics / Demos

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• Becca: Tutor on M1 redux

  • Webpack failure during npm ci for bind-mounted edx-platform

    • debug after meeting if time allows

• If the live demo gods smile on us: tutor package auto-mounting – new for Quince.

Cross Pollination

• Tools/features/opportunities

• Tips and tricks

• Roadmap news

• Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) (2U - Arch BOM)

  • We’re still trying out DevSpace. Big question for us is how to get the helm charts we need, and also connecting to vault

  • Tried tutor on my machine again (see topics/demos), no dice

Challenges

• Each challenge should have a follow up action.

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• Or if you aren’t sure, leave it blank.

• We’ll discuss all actions either way.

• Emad Rad

  • Adding Typing/Linting/Testing to all tutor plugins:

    • https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-credentials/pull/16
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-discovery/pull/54
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-notes/pull/31
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-minio/pull/32
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-ecommerce/pull/50
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-cairn/pull/19
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-android/pull/13
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-forum/pull/29
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-webui/pull/9
      https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-indigo/pull/50

  • Running a shared elastic on our k8s cluster with some help form openedx-k8s-harmony:

    • fixed some issues there:

      • https://github.com/openedx/openedx-k8s-harmony/pull/49

    • upgrading some Nightly organizations to Palm to support the ELASTIC_SEARCH_INDEX_PREFIX.

    • also, does anyone has any experience with the shared elastic and open edx? any ups and downs?

  • Local k8s development environment

    • https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/82

    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OonpUduqL5tdEPte3mY605DcW00Q3u8W9sze2XB7fAY/edit

    • https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/3647700997/Development+environment+notes

• Kyle McCormick

  • Have not been able to work much on tutor b/c Content Libraries is taking priority currently

• Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)

  • 2U vendor review process is painfully slow. Escalating this as a problem in general, not just for the OrbStack review

• Your name: Your topic

Successes

• DevExp wins!

• Emad Rad

  • Became the maintainer of cookiecutter-tutor-plugin repo.

    • 🎉 much appreciated!! -Kyle

  • tutor-mfe PR related to having a Makefile and Testing/Linting finally got merged: https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-mfe/pull/155

  • From now on we can install tutor dependencies with tutor[dev]

• 30 universities in Egypt are using Emad Rad and friends' work!

  • https://openedx.org/blog/27-public-universities-in-egypt-adopt-the-open-edx-lms/

• Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) continued incremental improvements on devstack and documentation. We now also get devstack issues automatically on our board

Suggested Action Items

Last Time:

• Kyle McCormick try Colima
• (FYI OrbStack is still in 2U vendor review)
• (And 2U is trying to kick off vendor review for Colima also)
• Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated) Consider making the devstack channel public
• Becca to announce in the 2u channel that there’s an openedx channel that they should use for non-private issues
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• Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) to check Tutor on ARM again-again (userid thing is fixed)

This Time:

• Becca to remove look at the board from the template

Look at the board

https://github.com/openedx/wg-developer-experience/issues

After the meeting…

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