Community Engineering Newsletter, July 16 – 20, 2018

Eugene Tulika · ‎07-24-2018

Get a quick update on all Community Engineering projects including completed and in-progress stories, features, and testing. And welcome new contributors joining your community projects. If you missed a meeting or demo, check the links to recordings.

MSI

Project Board

Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo

Alessandro finished the first story in Milestone 2.
Riccardo finished a prototype for a story in Milestone 2.
Configuration story HLD is finalized and ready for development. @Ben Robie @Paul Hachmang @TheRick, @aleron75 helped with discussions
Lori updated user documentation for Mass Actions and Backorders
Completed grooming of Milestone 2. All epics are being created on the ZenHub board, and Milestone 2 will start on Monday.

Meeting recordings:

Grooming: https://youtu.be/UWO0gGbaxKo
Demo: https://youtu.be/NaK09daqAoo

GraphQL

Project Board

Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda

Configuration service design discussed with Alex Lyzun from comwrap, needed for PW
7 PRs merged, 6 PRs opened, 13 in the queue
Atwix organized contribution day, led the demo meeting, and is actively contributing.
Bartek from Bold contributed first PRs on product from the stock data.
Martin Hansen contributed first PR on filtering category by root ID.

Meeting recordings

Demo: https://youtu.be/NiWqjREgpe4

Payment Improvements

Project Board

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy

Started project documentation in GitHub wiki: https://github.com/magento/payment-improvements/wiki/1.-Payment-Request-API
First external contributors joined: Lars Röttig from TechDivision, Torben Höhn from Basecom.

Meeting recordings:

Grooming: https://youtu.be/UmTGa8P1fYA

Localization

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy

Finished prototype for names formats: https://github.com/magento/magento2-l10n/pull/3

2FA and Google reCaptcha

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy

Packages by Riccardo Tempesta from MageSpecialist verified on Magento Commerce Cloud 2.1 and 2.2
Documentation available in Merchant User Guide documentation for Open Source and Commerce 2.1 and 2.2.
Modules publicly announced in the Magento Security blog: https://magento.com/security/news/improved-security-recaptcha-and-two-factor-authentication

PWA Studio

Project Board

Magento Coordinator: Eric Erway and James Zetlen

Artyom Kozinets from comwrap demoed work in progress for shop by category component for the Venia theme. Demo: https://youtu.be/Pbl8Vx48NTY?t=5m14s
New contributors joined: Karl Hass from Wagento, Martin Fajman from MageXo

Meeting recordings:

Grooming: https://youtu.be/iDZYi5K-3tY
Demo: https://youtu.be/Pbl8Vx48NTY

Bulk API

Project Board

Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap

Backport of asynchronous APIs to Magento 2.2 is being processed after fix of the issues.
Starting new backlog for performance improvements in asynchronous APIs and async import

Meeting recordings:

Weekly Stand Up: https://youtu.be/x-xEYU9WJPc
Bulk API performance improvements: https://youtu.be/kZxlKD_Qlck

Import/Export Improvements

Project Board

Magento Coordinator: David Manners

4 pull requests merged, 2 created, 8 outstanding
Tadhg Bowe: added more detailed error messaging to do with super attribute errors on import
Carsten Pfeifer: added failure when empty string is given for a required field and fixed category initialization on multi store import

Meeting recordings:

Weekly: https://youtu.be/CeSM3ZCgywg

B2B

Initial meeting with Balance Internet on 3 epics for the B2B track.

MFTF

Fixed issue in v2.2 and v2.3 reported by careys7 from Balance Internet.
Fixed issue reported during the distributed Contribution Day by Vasyl Malanka.

Magento 2

Project Board

Created 92 and merged 58 Pull Requests.
Added 3 new Community Maintainers to the team: Vijay Golani from Wagento, Josef Behr, Marcel Hauri
Launching contribution points calculation mechanism for Community Maintainers
Revolved 86 public issues. Acknowledged and added136 issues to the project backlog.