Community Engineering Newsletter, March 18 - 22, 2019

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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 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:

• https://youtu.be/f4m92oKLlGs
• Demo playlist

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.

Adobe Experience Platform Launch (AEP)

GitHub | Slack

Magento Coordinator:  Igor Gorin and Eugene Shakhsuvarov

• 1 Issue created
• 5 Issues closed
• 3 PRs created
• 3 PRs closed
• Updated and added a configuration guide in the Wiki, by Lori Krell

MFTF Conversion

GitHub | Project Board | Slack

Magento Coordinator: Alex Kolesnyk

• 16 Issues closed
• 3 PRs created
• 6 PRs closed

Localization and Translations

Slack Japanese / Slack Translations | Japanese GitHub | Magento CrowdIn | Google Doc

Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy, Piotr Kaminski, and Igor Gorin

• 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

Meeting:

• Weekly, Tuesday, 17:00 CET / 11am CDT - https://bluejeans.com/756272778

Magento 2

Project Board | GitHub| Slack

• 44 PRs merged to core
• 61 PRs created
• 60 Issues created
• 55 Issues closed

Magento Architecture

Project Board | GitHub | Architecture Slack | Services Isolation Slack

Magento Coordinator: Olga Kopylova

Meeting Notes: March 13, 2019 #77

• 8 Issues created
• 3 Issues closed

Architecture:

• [Merged] Fix “affected components” link, #132
• [Merged] Fix “Component Assignments” link, #133
• [Merged] Document regarding controllers extending each other, #101
• [Merged] Cookies relation with modules, #123
• [Merged] MC-13864: Consumer always read config from memory, #91
• [Proposed] Static testing improvement, #128
• [Proposed] Distributed deployment, #129
• [Proposed] AsyncImport – Update endpoints for base uploads, #131

Services Isolation:

• All open Issues and PRs
• Updates for Services Isolation and Slack channel.

Meetings:

• Architecture - Weekly - Wednesday, 10:30am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/374721893
• Services Isolation – Biweekly -Thursday, 11am CDT- https://adobe.bluejeans.com/363550742
• Meeting Notes and Agendas

Meeting recordings:

• https://youtu.be/nIqc0OujZ_I
• Video Playlist

Magento Coding Standards

GitHub | Slack | Project

Magento Coordinator: Lena Orobei

• 5 Issues created
• 9 Issues closed
• 8 PRs created
• 8 PRs closed
• Magento Marketplace Extensions Verification completed and posted
• Community Dashboard is a project tracking entered issues

Meeting:

• Biweekly, Monday, 9:30am CDT, https://adobe.bluejeans.com/4118702911

Meeting recording:

• https://youtu.be/MJMXblIrlaM