Topics

• 1st week at edX

  • any surprises?

  • any unmet expectations?

  • Memories

    • Onboarding: So many terms and acronyms

    • Many years ago - VP’s expectation: Merging a PR within the first day/week

  • edX Maturity

    • Values - being written and rolled out

    • Ops Reviews - still maturing

• Is it ever okay to import Django models from one app into another app’s models?

  • Notes:

    • credentials has a duplicative data-set from discovery

    • importing programs into program-certificates

    • looking for a relatively easy solution

    • currently don’t have clearly defined layers/tiered

    • already planning to use api.py so the app doesn’t dig into the models elsewhere, per https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/docs/decisions/0002-inter-app-apis.rst

    • catalog app has the duplicated data

    • credentials app depends on the catalog app

  • Thoughts:

    • Using Dependency Inversion technique by creating an API that is separated from the Concreton

      • slides 27->28 may have an example dependency graph that can inspire further: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hOrk9L-sUcjhQ_Xytqez7iy2LHkjkNDC6eSw8y2uRWI/edit#slide=id.g7376cdf3fc_3_135

      • Creating “Abstract classes” in Python: here’s what we did for Block Transformers a few years ago: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/block_structure/transformer.py

        • Not sure if Python 3.8 has newer features.

• Has anybody looked into https://backstage.io/ enough yet to know if it could be useful for us? For devstack, repo health dashboard UI, or otherwise

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AT/pages/2094170172

• How can we get even more value out of the repo health dashboard?

  • What if we had a check-making bash? Brainstorm things we want to know, spend the remaining time writing em up!

  • Freeze the top row

  • https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/BOM-2145

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Backlog of Questions/Discussions

• Recent MFE docs

  • [Archive] MFE Rewrite Statusarchived

  • MFE Definition of Done

  • Recommendation: When to MFE

• Requirements for public reposarchived - how will these requirements be reinforced? +1