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New Community Engineering Manager
Welcome Igor Gorin, new Senior Manager working with all Special Projects. In his first week, he has already jumped into grooming and demos, learning about Adobe, Magento, and Community Engineering. You’ll see him pop up in Slack chats, meetings, and demos to learn more and help support special projects.
SQUASHTOBERFEST
- Entering the last week. So far >600 PRs across projects counting towards SQUASHTOBERFEST.
- Submit 5 PRs AND/OR validate 10 issues across any Magento Repo between October 1 – 31. Earn up to 10 points (issues 1, PRs 2). You get credit for the submissions, even if merges occur after October.
- Updated the wiki per questions in Slack.
- When validatingGitHub Issues, see our GitHub Issues Processing Workflow.
- When submitting PRs, see our Contributor Guide.
Important Note: All issues are currently verified with the Automated Contributor Assistant. All issues in backlogs and repos can be worked on for SQUASHTOBERFEST credit. A specific label is not needed.
2.3.0 Beta News
Release Notes | Quick Start | DevDocs | User Guides
- Final Beta published for 2.3.0! The version is:
magento/project-community-edition=2.3.0-beta32 - Additional builds may publish only for significant updates determined through regression testing.
- DevDocs and Admin User Guides will continue to update as needed.
- Potential GA in November 2018, see Magento 2.3 availability.
SQUASHTOBERFEST
- We are continuing to receive PRs and issue validation, thank you!
- Entering our last 2 weeks, contribute and earn an awesome shirt and points.
- Submit 5 PRs AND/OR validate 10 issues across any Magento Repo between October 1 – 31. You get credit for the submissions, even if merges occur after October.
- When validatingGitHub Issues, see our GitHub Issues Processing Workflow.
- When submitting PRs, see our Contributor Guide.
Important Note: All issues are currently verified with the Automated Contributor Assistant. All issues in backlogs and repos can be worked on for SQUASHTOBERFEST credit. A specific label is not needed.
MSI
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo
- 8 low priority bugs are left to fix. These fixes will be included into the 2.3.1 patch release or later. All the major bug fixes so far have made it into the 2.3.0 release.
Work this week:- 2 new and 8 closed PRs: https://github.com/magento-engcom/msi/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+created%3A2018-10-22..2018-10-2...
- 6 new and 11 closed issues: https://github.com/magento-engcom/msi/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=created%3A2018-10-22..2018-10-26+
- Regression testing MSI Milestone 2, Cycle 2 started: 140 test scenarios, 135 passed, 5 skipped, no new issues found.
- Work has begun on implementing MSI support for B2B by Lars Rottig (@larsroettig) from TechDivision. We are working on implementing code support for B2B, as well as working on creating a connector module for B2B-MSI with help of the architecture team.
- Introduced PHP7.1 syntax with strict typing by Vitalii Boiko (@VitaliyBoyko) from Atwix.
- Implemented support for Admin Async/Bulk Operations for bulk entity processing by Riccardo Tempesta (@RicTempesta) from MageSpecialist.
- New changes to MSI documentation, new API endpoints and updated methods by Kevin Harper and user guide updates by Lori Krell.
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:
GraphQL
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda
Current PRs status:
- 5 new PR have beencreated
https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+created%3A2018-10-22..2018-10-2... - 10 PRs have "Development in Progress" status
https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Ain-progress - 3 PRs have broken builds butwithout 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. (IN PROGRESS)
Action points / Ideas:
- Participation in CD/Meet Magento Mexico2018
https://mx.meet-magento.com/
Meeting recordings:
- Grooming: https://youtu.be/71446_a-R3Q
Bulk API & Async Import Project
Bulk API: Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Async: Project Board | GitHub
Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap
Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy
- New PR provided by Alex Lyzunfrom comwrap to Remove data_hash from BULK response: #23
Meeting:
- Every Wednesday, 10am CST, https://magento.zoom.us/j/174278973
PWA Studio
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: Eric Erway and James Zetlen
- Sprint 27completed focused on UX/documentation, Product Details, pagination and CMS updates
- Sprint 28focused on payment MVP, routing, navigation and search along with related UX/documentation
- Reviews and merges continue with contributions from comwrap, Bargreen Ellingsen and others. Github stars increasing.
- First time PRs (#403/#412) to PWA from Javier Villanueva (@jahvi) to update navigation and shopping cart; recently groomed
- PR for pagination (#424) from Cooper (@Serunde) from Bargreen Ellingsen submitted for review; working closely with UX
- Preview of Inchoo PWA theme (full experience) with PWA Studio shared on #pwa
- Bargreen Ellingsen picked basic PWA capabilities for manifest; WIP shared this week, Search next
- Coding hours up 10% and efficiency up 12% respectively per@Gitential (week/week)
- Great presentations at MageTitansATX
Meetings:
- Grooming: Fridays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
- Demo: Mondays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
Meeting recordings:
- Demo:NA (not recorded)
- Grooming:https://youtu.be/QWaOp3MAzkU
Inchoo PWA examples! For the full video, see Slack.
Import/Export
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: David Manners
- Project gaining additional contributors and submitted work.
- All PRs will be processed quickly as possible.
- Contributions including code clean up, feature additions, and bug fixes will add some really nice improvements to the Import/Export process in the next update.
Groomed issues:
New PRs:
- https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/18810
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/pull/130
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/pull/138
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/pull/139
PRs moved to QA:
New Contributors:
- https://github.com/VoronoyAlexandr
- https://github.com/Stepa4man
- https://github.com/sawebvisum
- https://github.com/mautz-et-tong
Closed Issues (either already fixed or not an issue):
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/issues/80
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/issues/79
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/issues/45
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/issues/58
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/issues/35
- https://github.com/magento-engcom/import-export-improvements/issues/77
Issues with architecture for more clarification:
MFTF
Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs
- Presenting Testing Extensions with MFTF Workshop at MageTitans Austin
- Presenting Automated Functional Testing at MageCONF (Kiev), Nov. 3, 2018, https://www.mageconf.com/
- MFTF is also attending the MageCONF Contribution Day, promoting the project and supporting contributions.
Localization and Translations
Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy, Piotr Kaminski, Igor Gorin
- Planning a meeting with the community to discuss processes for accepting, reviewing, and packaging translated UI content.
- For any questions of context or meaning for English UI text, ask in the Slack channel. DevDocs and others can help in the channel.
- Translations continue in Crowdin.
- Japanese localization planned for the Meet Magento Japan event.
Magento 2
- 37Pull Requests merged to the core
- 61Pull Requests created
- 44new issues created
- 60issues verified, including 17 added to the backlog and 43 resolved in different ways
- First time contributors:4
Magento Architecture
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
- Merged: Sessions to be used only in controllers and blocks: #36
- Proposed: Remote code invoker doc: #37
- Agenda in progress for October 31, 2018 meeting
Meetings:
- Biweekly - Wednesday, 10:30am CST/CDT, https://magento.zoom.us/j/147176855
- Meeting Notes and Agendas
DevDocs
- Major update for DevDocs API documentation to RedocLy for easier, better to read and use docs.
- Added new resources to the Community Resources. Seeking new resources and info from the community.
- Seeking Community contributed best practices for Magento installs, configurations, and development. Enter PRs with content. Contact DevDocs with any questions.
- Updated the DevDocs contributing doc with easy workflows for faster contributing.