Community Engineering Newsletter, March 18 - 22, 2019

lkrell · ‎03-25-2019

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 join a specific project and contribute, or have questions, check the links to recordings, project boards, and more.

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Translations Kick-Off Meeting

Join us in the first kick off meeting for translations project planning!

March 26^th, 2019, 17:00 CET / 11am CDT - https://bluejeans.com/756272778 |Slack Translations

Processes and plans for automating translations
GitHub repository and Crowdin updates
And much more!
Weekly meetings continuing every Tuesday, 17:00 CET / 11am CDT - https://bluejeans.com/756272778

Release Notice! March 26, 2019

See the full details here! 2.3.1, 2.2.8. 2.1.17, M1, and so much more! Including Page Builder first GA release!

MSI

Project Board | GitHub | Slack |DevDocs | User Guide

Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo, Eugene Shakhsuvarov, and Igor Gorin

Work this week:
- 9 PRs created
- 13 PRs merged
- 8 Issues created
- 4 Issue closed
- Latest Roadmap

Grooming was completed for In Store Pickup. Group determined work to complete and plan out in milestones.
General In Store Pickup updates, by Aleksandr Kravchuk
Discussed refactoring of Legacy to New Inventory synchronization and proper modularity, by Riccardo Tempesta
The idea of performance improvement based on MySQL Triggers + comparison of existing 2.3.0 + MSI against Trigger version, by Richard Trøndheim
Decimal Qty comparison fix, by Lars Rottig (@larsroettig)
General MSI updates, by Eugene Shakhsuvarov
See the latest trends and tests reports for MSI, by Tom Erskine:
- MSI in regression cycle for 1.1.0 for 2.3.1 – Estimated completion is 1 week
- New testing is planned for post-regression cycle

Meetings:

Demo: Fridays 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/2326679047/9005

Meeting recordings:

GraphQL

Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs

Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda, Nishant Kepoor, and Igor Gorin

Work this week:
- 21 issues created
- 4 issues closed
- 20 PRs created
- 1 PR merged
General updates (@vnayda @Igor Gorin)
GraphQL-198: [Cart Operations] Add downloadable product to Cart, by Alex Taranovsky
GraphQL-198: Products: access to related/up-sell/cross-sell product fields, by Vitalii Boiko
[Checkout] Shipping methods support, by Tomash Khamlai
See the latest test reports, by Tom Erskine:

Meetings:

Demo Meeting: Thursdays, 10-11am CDT, https://adobe.bluejeans.com/7850571097/5062/

PWA Studio

Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs

Magento Coordinator: James Zetlen, Andrew Wilcox, and Igor Gorin

17 Issues created
12 Issues closed
10 PRs created
15 PRs merged

Demo:

Overview of UI components
Demo of Experius “whitelabel” PW

Readiness for 2.3.1 next week; new reviews/merges

2 Community PRs in the last week including:

#1029: Fix for CMS that may have .html extensions, by Daniel Coull
#1031: Peregrine page > syntax fixes, by Rafael Correa Gomes

Meetings:

Grooming: Fridays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
Demo: Mondays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328

Meeting recording:

https://youtu.be/p-sw3aeG9iI

Asynchronous Import & Bulk API Project

Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs Bulk API & Async API

Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy and Igor Gorin

5 Issues created
2 Issues closed
6 PRs created
5 PRs merged
Contribution Day in Ukraine updates by Alex Lyzun
Base64 partial uploader by Hitarth Pattani
New import validators by Hitarth Pattani

Meeting:

Wednesdays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/4118702911

Meeting recording:

https://youtu.be/QXOOIsL4Bbw

Cloud ece-tools

GitHub | Slack | DevDocs

Watch the recording for the Cloud ECE-Tools Demo by Oleh Posyniak: https://bluejeans.com/s/jKqG0
Added Reduce downtime to the Optimize deployment section of the Cloud DevDocs. This information helps reduce the amount of time it takes your store to deploy an update to production.