Community Engineering Newsletter, August 6 – 10, 2018

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Community Engineering Newsletter, August 6 – 10, 2018

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

• Important: We have begun work on major updates to Stock configurations. Sergey Mutaf (@seruymt) created a new infrastructure for StockItem Configuration: https://github.com/magento-engcom/msi/pull/1553
• Riccardo Tempesta (@RicTempesta) from MageSpecialist provided a robust fix for nested object instantiation via Web API / Support for non-FQN in web-API: https://github.com/magento-engcom/msi/pull/1546
• Leonid Tomashevsky (@LeonidTomashevskyAmasty) from Amasty is refactoring Move the Source dropdown values to a separate class
• Kevin Harper (@keharper) from Magento published an API tutorial for Order processing with Multi Source Inventory

Meetings:

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

GraphQL

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda

• Yaroslav Rogoza(@rogyar)from Atwix  submitted a PR for Render Categories Descriptive Directives: https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pull/148 
• Umar Chaudhry (@UmarChaudhry1) from RLTsquare developed a Categories Endpoint for GraphQL: https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pull/149
• Alex Paliarush (@paliarush) from Magento continued investigations on architecture for cart schema mutations

Meeting recordings:

• Meeting: https://youtu.be/SPqvz071GTw

Bulk API & Async Import Project

Project Board | Bulk API GitHub | Slack | Asynch GitHub

Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap

• Artem Komarov (@ualinker) from Trilix led a discussion of project first steps
• Groomed tasks currently in the project: https://app.zenhub.com/workspace/o/magento/async-import/boards?repos=142320429

Meeting:

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

Meeting recordings:

• Weekly Async:  https://youtu.be/69gNRgftl2g

Localization

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy

• Hirokazu Nishi (@hirokazu_nishi) from Veriteworks finalized work on extended configuration for ElasticSearch: https://github.com/magento/magento2-l10n/pull/1
• Design of extended configuration for ElasticSearch presented at the architectural meeting for approval: https://github.com/magento/architecture/pull/17
• Fix for prices in currencies without subunits is ready for review
• Work in progress for auto-filling zip-codes

Payment Improvements

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  Volodymyr Kublytskiy

• Payment Request API
  • Published first version of API for Shipping Options by Lars Rottig (@larsroettig) from TechDivision:https://github.com/magento/payment-improvements/pull/48
  • Lars Rottig (@larsroettig) from TechDivision started work on usage of introduced API on client side
  • Andrezej Rosiek (@arosiek) continued work onSupported Payment Methods Provider: https://app.zenhub.com/workspace/o/magento/payment-improvements/issues/29
• Other
  • Finalized scope of PR with adding Brazilian Credit cards by Willian L. Keller (@williankeller). PR https://app.zenhub.com/workspace/o/magento/payment-improvements/issues/47 will be merged next week with PR for the Vault delete method.
  • Approvedproposal on introduction Sale command to Payment Gateway framework by Vitaliy (@viktym): https://github.com/magento/architecture/pull/9

PWA Studio

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  Eric Erway and James Zetlen

• Code review beginning with help from Community (assignments)
• 6 new contributors joined since last week
• Received key Venia feedback on two stories

Meeting recordings:

• Grooming: https://youtu.be/371Mkzyn7rE 
• Sprint 21 Demo:https://youtu.be/hAH89MquzRQ

Magento 2

Project Board | GitHub| Slack

• Created 77 and merged 81 Pull Requests
• 51 public issues have been resolved, 70 issues acknowledged and added to the project backlog
• 16 First-time Contributors submitter their first PRs to magento2 repository:
  • alexeya-ven
  • Danny Nimmo (@dannynimmo) from Vaimo
  • Daniël Brekelmans (@dbrekelmans)
  • Deefco Research Laboratory (@deefco)
  • Drischie
  • Emily Pepperman (@EmilyPepperman)
  • Filipe-Bicho
  • Floriaan (@Floctopus)
  • Jason Evans @ jasonevans1)
  • septa-setiawan
  • teddysie
  • udinnoer
  • werfu
  • Yosef Kurniawan (@yosefkurniawan)
  • Yuliantoadi
  • Zouhongzhao
• MSI Publication: Investigated failed Jenkins builds on Magento core with Inventory modules and created of backlog to fix issues

Magento Architecture

Project Board | GitHub | Slack

• Discussed extensions versioning and Magento editions support (Open Source, Commerce, B2B) and determined next steps
• Discussed Support saleoperation by Magento payment provider gateway: PR#9 by Viktor Tymchynskyi from Magento
• Discussed extended configuration for Elasticsearch Analyzer: PR#17 by Volodymyr Kublytskyi from Magento

Meetings:

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

Meeting recording:

• August 7, 2018 agenda and meeting notes