Community Engineering Newsletter, July 16 – 20, 2018

[Eugene Tulika]

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.

[ben_hogben]

could you link the github projects as well as the zenhub app board?

[Eugene Tulika]

@ben_hogben yes, for the next post will include them. However every ZenHub board contains a link to the GitHub. Zenhub works on top of GitHub

[mhauri]

HI @Eugene Tulika thank you for the update. As you didn't mentioned it, I was wondering if php-7.2-support is no longer a thing. Actually I've got this feeling as PR's aren't processed and there seems to be not that much activity from the community.

[okopylova]

@mhauri, it is a thing and we will be finalizing the work for 2.3 release. However we have issues with the current PRs, and I can give someupdates:

1. mcrypt -> sodium PR. Huge and great work by Patrick, but we have incompatibility issues with B2B which we still investigate. We will definitely merge it, so it will be part of 2.3.0

2. phpunit PR. So far we internally upgraded to the latest 5.x version, but we have issues with the latest v.7, it runs out of memory. I have sume suspicions about new phpunit implementation which I described in the relates issue, but so far phpunit didn't change anything as far as I know. If possible, we still want to investigate the issue and contribute back to phpunit with the fix, but didn't get to it yet.

3. Zend_Mail PR - I'll look at it and it should be merged, no issues with it (sorry for the delay).

[mhauri]

Thank you @okopylova for the update. Wasn't aware of the issues. Will have a look and try to help where I can.