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Community Engineering November Livestream – MSI!
Thank you to all of our incredible presenters!
Miss the event? Watch the video!
- Bartek Szymański (@bartek_szy) from Strix presenting the 1st Magento 2.3 + MSI project: https://touspolska.pl/
- Riccardo Tempesta (@RicTempesta)from MageSpecialist talked about technical challenges and architecture
- Vadim Justus(@_justus)from Techdivision discussed B2B + MSI
- Ivan Dotsenko (@Dotsenkolvan) from Iqmosiac shared his experience of how project based on MSI handles several hundreds of Sources
- Alexander Piskunov (@AlexanderPisku1) from Amasty sharing their experience writing the Advance MSI extension and more
- Lori Krell (@LoriAKrell) from Magento walked through DevDocs and User Guides
- Mark Brinton (@markabrinton) from Magento discussed the future of MSI, Milestone 3 and beyond
- Igor Miniailo (@iminyaylo) from Magento gave an overview of the project, history, working with community and much more
2.3.0 Beta News
Release Notes | Quick Start | DevDocs | User Guides
- Watch for updates posting soon for the GA 2.3.0 release.
- Final Beta package is:
magento/project-community-edition=2.3.0-beta32 - DevDocs and Admin User Guides will continue to update as needed.
MSI
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo
Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo and Igor Gorin
- Work this week:
- 1 new and 13 closed PRs
- 6 new and 18 closed issues
- Repackaged MSI 1.0.2 for Magento 2.3.0
- Milestone 2 completed and closed
- Milestone 3 prepared
- Vitalii Boiko will show fixes for SSA and Refund
- Slava Moskalyuk walked through fixes for Quantity calculation
- Igor Miniailo shed some light on what would be done in Milestone 3
- Sergey new contributor on MSI track demonstrated his first PR
- Tom Erskine shared our plans on MFTF test coverage
- Kevin Harper provided updated and new DevDocs documentation for Source Selection Algorithms and ScalableInventory deprecation.
- Lori Krell added additional content for Order and Credit Memo Status and Reservations, Stock Management for Order Cancelation, and updated release information. You can find these updates in the official 2.3 Admin User Guides.
- Igor Miniailo provided MSI training for internal Magento support.
Announcements:
- Strix Webinar – Magento 2.3 + MSI Implementation – November 20, 2018, 5pm CET/10am CST – Free registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7726009118417509387
- Milestone 3 Roadmap available, Grooming starts week of November 19th
Meetings:
- Grooming: Thursdays 10-11am CDT, https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473
- Demo: Fridays 10-11am CDT, https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473
Meeting recordings:
Demo: Nov 16 Demo + Playlist
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naMfm4vRRjk
GraphQL
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda
Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda and Igor Gorin
Current PRs status:
- 4 new PR have been created
https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+created%3A2018-11-09..2018-11-1...
- 11 PR have been merged (65 since 2018-07-01)
https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+closed%3A2018-11-09..2018-11-15
- 3 PRs have "Merge in Progress" status
https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3AImported - 14 PRs have "Development / Review in Progress" status
https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Ain-progress
- 1 PR have broken builds but without progress
https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Abroken-tests
PRs Special Achievements status:
- https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pull/188(Travis API-functional testsuite automated execution)
Special Achievement. Primary tests for GraphQL are API-functional. But now they don’t run on Travis. (DEVELOPMENT IN PROGRESS) - https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pull/211 (Setting shipping method for shopping cart)
Special Achievement. The PR introduces base fundament of mutation for setting shipping method for a shopping cart.
Also, this PR contains GraphQL schema for working with different checkout operations (setting billing and shipping addresses etc. (MERGED)
Action points / Ideas:
- Start evaluating tickets in story points for better predictability
- Set up a burn down chart in ZenHub
- Congrats to Alexandr Voronoy for submitting the 100th PR on the project!
Meeting recording:
PWA Studio
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: Eric Erway, James Zetlen, Andrew Wilcox, and Igor Gorin
- Sprint 29 focused on order details, client validation at the address form, footer revisions, and documentation updates.
- James Calcaben worked on updates for Venia directory structure, known issues information, and prepped additional topics to revise. For all doc planning, see these doc tickets.
- Final grooming before Thanksgiving was completed. For more info, see the full backlog.
- For details on hours and efficiency, see @Gitential reporting
- Inchoo will be joining and contributing to project!
Meetings:
- Grooming: Fridays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
- Demo: Mondays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
Meeting recordings:
- Grooming:https://youtu.be/K-tQ-LSxZvc
Import/Export
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: David Manners and Igor Gorin
Special Achievement PR:
Merged PRs:
Continuing work:
- ImportExport: BEHAVIOR_REPLACE deleted products, started by Federico Rivollier: issue #89.
- 6 PRs progressed. See Impulse for updates.
Meeting recording:
MFTF
Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs
- MFTF 2.3.11 release is now available. This version contains the new
mftf run:failedcommand, which will enable Functional Test builds to rerun failed MFTF tests twice (total of three executions). - The MFTF team will be holding presentations and workshops at conferences in November and December. Watch for members to learn more about automation testing and Magento!
Localization and Translations
Slack | Japanese GitHub | Magento CrowdIn | Google Doc
Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy, Piotr Kaminski, and Igor Gorin
- We attended Meet Magento Japan and supports a Contribution Day.
- At the MMJP Contribution Day, contributors worked hard on CrowdIn translations and started work on several features required by the Japanese market including kana fields for guest checkout and generation of PDF with Japanese fonts.
Magento 2
- 26Pull Requests merged to the core
- 42 Pull Requests created
- 94new issues created
- 24 closed issues
Magento Architecture
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
- See the latest meeting notes for November and December 2018
- Merged: Add proposal to deprecate JS Component mixins, by Andrew Levine, #23
- Proposed: Added draft proposal for services authentication & authorization, by Yevhen Sentiabov, #48
Meetings:
- Biweekly - Wednesday, 10:30am CST/CDT, https://magento.zoom.us/j/147176855
- Meeting Notes and Agendas
Cloud
- ece-tools v2002.0.15 released. See the release notes for details.
- Highlights for the release include enhanced Docker environment, added support for PHP 7.2 in Cloud Docker, new Cron container, and expanded services for RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, and Redis.
DevDocs
Site | Slack | Github | What’s New
- Magento Order Management (OMS) writers working to improve navigation, structure, and content by engaging in a content audit in tandem with our OMS UX team.
- Magento Commerce Cloud writers released content updates and release notes for the ece-tools v2002.0.15 release. Please review for additional information and documentation for updated and new features.
- MSI writers presented in the Community Engineering Livestream. Updated MSI documentation provided for DevDocs and Admin User Guides.
- Additional GraphQL documentation updates in progress.
- Added link checking as part of
jekyll servefor local build testing prior to PR merges. A report generates for writers to review and resolve issues.