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Community Engineering Newsletter, October 15 - 19, 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:

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Looking for a specific channel? Check the gist, search channels, or check the project links below!

  

2.3.0 Beta News

Release Notes | DevDocs

  • Continued Beta updates available.
  • See DevDocs for install instructions and release updates.
  • Potential GA in November 2018, see Magento 2.3 availability.

 

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SQUASHTOBERFEST

Wiki | Blog | Twitter | Slack

  • We are continuing to receive PRs and issue validation, thank you!
  • Entering our last 2 weeks, contribute and earn an awesome shirt and points.
  • Submit 5 PRs AND/OR validate 10 issues across any Magento Repo between October 1 – 31. You get credit for the submissions, even if merges occur after October.
  • When validatingGitHub Issues, see our GitHub Issues Processing Workflow.
  • When submitting PRs, see our Contributor Guide.

Important Note: All issues are currently verified with the Automated Contributor Assistant. All issues in backlogs and repos can be worked on for SQUASHTOBERFEST credit. A specific label is not needed.

 

MSI

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo

Milestone 2 and 2.3.0 status:

Weekly updates:

  • Weekly Status: 18 merged PRs, 3 open PRs, 26 closed issues, 24 new issues
  • Regression continues with many tests verified and updated, with updates merged to 2.3.0-release.
  • In the demo we discussed the preparation for 2.3 release.
  • MSI officially is deprecating APIs for CatalogInventory module in Open Source and ScalableInventory in Commerce.
  • B2B and MSI integrations for APIs have 3 entered issues. These are being reviewed and worked on by Lars Rottig (@larsroettig) from TechDivision.
  • Kevin Harper released DevDocs for Inventory Management, including deprecated core APIs and architecture overview.

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Meetings:

 

GraphQL

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda

Current PRs status:

PRs Special Achievements status:

Action points / Ideas:

Meetings:

Meeting recordings:

 

Bulk API & Async Import Project

Bulk API: Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Async: Project Board | GitHub

Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap

Magento Coordinator:  Volodymyr Kublytskiy

  • Artem Komarov (@ualinker) from Trilix worked on a PR #22 that implements Redis database module for Magento that in the future will be used by Async import for storing operation statuses.
  • comwrap started to work on implementation of Asynchronous import module, which will be provided as separate package.
  • @vaimo-vilko provided PR #21 to change how topic names are generated, for improving future compatibilities in Async/Bulk API.

Meeting:

 

PWA Studio

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  Eric Erway and James Zetlen

  • Sprint 27 completed; focused on UX/documentation, configurable Product Details from Bargreen, payments.
  • Updates to Product Details (#278/#283) and pagination (#279) throughout the week; demo on Monday.
  • Grooming complete for shopping cart (#362), category sorting and filtering (#360 and #361), offline/manifest (#372 and #374).
  • Coding hours for PWA +21% this week per @Gitential including five (5) PR received from the Magento Community.

Meetings:

Meeting recordings:

 

Localization

Slack | Japanese GitHub

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy

  • Translations of Magento UI text continues through Crowdin.
  • All source available for translation is updated for the current release. The automated process extracts all data from the current release.
  • Magento is internally discussing processes for reviewing and approving translations and pulling these into a project or package.

  

Magento 2

Project Board | GitHub| Slack

  • 38 Pull Requests merged to the core
  • 60 Pull Requests created
  • 34 new issues created
  • 35 issues closed

 

Magento Architecture

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

  • Service isolation merged: #29
  • Draft for cart operations and other GraphQL improvements merged: #15
  • Proposed: Deprecate Fotorama: #33
  • Proposed: Add redeem method to the Gift card API: #34
  • Proposed: Remove __sleep and __wakeup: #35
  • Proposed: Sessions to be used only in controllers and blocks: #36

 Meetings:

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