Community Engineering Newsletter, July 23-27, 2018

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Get a quick update on all Community Engineering projects including completed and in-progress stories, features, and testing. Welcome new contributors joining your community projects. Check open requests and good first issues in the project boards.

If you missed a meeting or demo, want to contribute, or have questions, check the links to recordings, project boards, and more.

Check the Magento Community Engineering Google Calendar for all events:

• Public URL
• iCal format

MSI

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo

• Finalized Product Backlog for Milestone 2 on ZenHub (https://twitter.com/iminyaylo/status/1021744103720185858). MSI Roadmap page and project board updated https://github.com/magento-engcom/msi/wiki/MSI-Roadmap
• 12 Pull Requests with MFTF tests created covering user’s interaction for two stories:
  • Support Negative Threshold for Backorder functionality
  • Mass Inventory action (re-assign Source Items from/to different sources)
• Comprehensive how-to documentation created:
  • Mass Inventory Migration Tool
  • Backorders with Negative Threshold
• Stock and Source Configuration For more information, watch this Grooming recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1PQDlPfFk.
• Desirable state of Modularity in Magento 2 by examples in Magento MSI

Meetings:

• Grooming: Every Thursday 10am CST https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473
• Demo: Every Friday 10am CST https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473

Meeting recordings:

• Grooming: https://youtu.be/hU1PQDlPfFk
• Demo: https://youtu.be/CUIIp8u9eZQ

GraphQL

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda

• Extend store config coverage (#130) by Vitalii Boiko (@VitaliiBoiko)
• Implement query complexity limiting (#28) by Yaroslav Rogoza (@rogyar)
• Rendering content of CMS entities. Retrieving Quote information via GraphQL by Roman Glushko (@roma_glushko)
• Implementation of Newsletter request to GraphQL (#131) by Alex Lyzun (@nuzil) from comwrap
• GraphQL schema for checkout by Alex Paliarush (@paliarush) and the Magento team

Meetings:

• Every Thursday 10am CST https://magento.zoom.us/j/760857552

Meeting recordings:

• Demo: https://youtu.be/zGHqYnm8ByI

Import/Export Improvements

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  David Manners

• 1 PR merged https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/pull/117, which adds validation for duplicated EAV attribute values in the import files, by Carsten Pfeifer (@pogster)

Meeting:

• Weekly Monday, 9 am CST https://magento.zoom.us/j/625365202

Meeting recordings:

• Weekly: https://youtu.be/zNC4hzxihDE

Async Import Project

GitHub

Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap

• Started the project
• Project is dedicated to the import functionality implemented by Bulk API
• Filling the backlog with tasks. The first task is to measure the performance of the current Bulk API when importing the projects, https://github.com/magento/async-import/issues/1

Meeting:

• Every Wednesday, 10am CST, https://magento.zoom.us/j/174278973

B2B

• Created repository https://github.com/magento/b2b-improvements available to Partners
• Started collecting requirements and features for B2B development — email engcom@magento.com if interested!

Bulk API

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap

• Backport of asynchronous APIs to Magento 2.2 is in-progress
• Two new issues reported by Alex Lyzun (@nuzil) from comwrap

Meeting recordings:

• Weekly Stand Up: https://youtu.be/DLB8XH0BE9Q

Localization

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy

• Work in-progress on the following:
  • Elasticsearch improvements (PR expected Monday-Tuesday)
  • Prices for integer currencies
  • Regions dictionary improvements
• Magento Meetup in Tokyo – Many new developers are interested in learning more about Magento development and contributing code

Payment Improvements

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  Volodymyr Kublytskiy

Payment Request API:

• Merged first PR (button on product page and pop-up invocation) by Ievgen Sentiabov (@joni-jones), https://github.com/magento/payment-improvements/pull/46
• Wiki published initial version of instructions for setting up dev environments for Apple Pay integration by Torben Hohn (@torhoehn) from Basecom
• Agreed on general strategy to develop server-side API and started implementation of services shipping options by Lars Rottig (@larsroettig) from TechDivision
• Discussed API for listing supported payment methods, work should be started the weekend of July 28, 2018, by Andrey Zabara (@chrom)

Additional updates:

• Worked on finalization PR with API for stored cards removal by Ievgen Sentiabov (@joni-jones)
• Created proposal on introduction Sale command to Payment Gateway framework by Vitaliy (@viktym)
• Community contributors started development on previously created issues

PWA Studio

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  Eric Erway and James Zetlen

• PR #171 submitted from Artyom Kozinets (@artKozinets) from comwrap for Venia homepage. See the merging and review in Sprint 20, demo: https://youtu.be/Pbl8Vx48NTY?t=5m14s
• Community contributors are actively in discussions and answering questions for setup and configuration in the PWA Slack channel

Meeting recordings:

• Grooming: https://youtu.be/PFnSfBY_Yrw

MFTF

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Meeting recordings: 

• Community hangouts on the latest features of the Magento Testing Framework: https://youtu.be/3D9DByi3xhI

Magento 2

Project Board | GitHub| Slack

• Created 93 and merged 72 Pull Requests
• 110 public issues have been resolved, 97 issues acknowledged and added to the project backlog
• Contributing Documentation is staged to update with clarifications and the Pull Request procedures
• Porting code contribution (up-port, back-port) information added to the DevDocs Contribution guide

Magento Architecture

Project Board | GitHub

• Established community meetings on Magento architectural designs reviews: https://github.com/magento/architecture/pulls