Community Engineering Newsletter, September 3 – 7, 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.

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MSI

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo

• Slava Moskalyuk discussed the regression plan presentation
• Ivan Pletnyov fixed a crucial issue with Price Indexation and Inventory indexation coupling
• Mikola Malevanec continued work on Source and Stock configuration
• Lori Krell updated the User Guide documentation
• Kevin Harper published MSI DevDocs content for Managing sources, Managing stocks, Link and unlink stocks and sources, Managing source items, Perform bulk actions
• We prepared a list of Top 10 Issues for the #MM18PL Contribution Day for those interested in helping out.

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:

• Demo: https://youtu.be/9yREpw9JxXY

GraphQL

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda

• Allow scalars as resolver return type - GraphQL-152 - Alex Paliarush, implemented by Sourabh Modi (@sourabhmodi60)
• Show only active categories - GraphQL-139 - Alex Lyzun (@nuzil)from comwrap
• My Account > My Wish List - GraphQL-43 - Alexksli
• Cart Operations > Add simple product to Cart (status update) - GraphQL-141 - Roman Glushko (@roma-glushko) from Atwix

Meeting recordings:

• Demo: https://youtu.be/M2KtMcGaly8

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

Meeting:

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

PWA Studio

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  Eric Erway and James Zetlen

• Sprint 24 demo next week focused on middle-tier architecture, navigation and several UX and documentation updates
• Key commits to shipment/payment method from Bargreen who added two more active contributors
• This week’s grooming for Venia MVP on shopping cart updates and order confirmation (including account create)

• Updated UX design for cart flow by Soumya Ashok: https://magento.invisionapp.com/share/9GNY3GIUMRH.
  See the following link for all PWA screens approved for implementation: https://magento.invisionapp.com/share/WQN5F7BYBPG

• Code volume up 59%, velocity 142% and commits up 25% per @Gitential (week/week)

Meeting recordings:

• Demo: https://youtu.be/k4kTc0SIXmA
• Grooming: https://youtu.be/-DutG--Pp2g

Magento 2

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

• 26 Pull Requests merged to the core
• 36 Pull Requests created
• 52 new issues created
• 103 issues verified, including 57 added to the backlog and 46 resolved in different ways
• 6 First time contributors:
  • Misha Medzhytov (@magicaner)
  • Thundar
  • opensmarty
  • Kim Sondrup (@kim-sondrup)
  • Tetiana Blindaruk (@TBlindaruk)
  • priti2jcommerce

Magento Architecture

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

• Proposal to deprecate JS Component mixins PR discussed - #23
• Demo of remote Magento CLI, part of modularity work

 Meetings:

• Wednesday, 10:30am CST/CDT, Adobe Connect for Architecture
• Meeting Notes and Agendas

Meeting recordings:

• Zoom recording