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During the month of August, we saw incredible work and a higher numbers of PRs across all our Community Engineering projects and Magento 2. This month we saw 738 pull requests processed and 346 issues closed.

This was a busy week for Magento Community Engineering! Check for updates on all of your favorite projects, a security patches release announcement, the survey, the Community Hangout and new backlog, contribution changes per release line effective Sept. 17th, and much more. 

Every project includes links to GitHub, ZenHub, Slack, calendars, and recordings.

Get prepared for upcoming updates for Magento Open Source, Commerce, and more. This post provides more details.

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

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.

And check out the Community Engineering Survey!

ommunity contributions have increased dramatically over the past year. We've been digging through GitHub PRs and issues to add relevant content to DevDocs and Merchant guides. But did you know you can contribute your expert knowledge in DevDocs too? Share your expertise and earn Community Engineering reward points with DevDocs.

Magento DevDocs for v2.0 is EOL: Ensure your site continues to run smoothly, and keep the contributions coming!

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

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

July was another strong month for Community Engineering, with the community creating 920 pull requests. Together, we made significant progress on the Magento 2 repository and across all of our projects.

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

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

We are always seeking new ways to recognize contributing Partners as a sign of gratitude for their dedication and willingness to improve Magento. Starting August 2018, we introduce the Contributing Partner badge!

July is coming to an end, and we would like to share exciting news and updates on the Partner Contribution Rewards Program including the start of Core Architect Assistance project, updates for the Partner's Maintainers and Contributing Partner badge for the Partner Directory.

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

We believe that Community Insiders engineering teams have high expertise with the Magento codebase and engineering principles behind it. This knowledge and expertise are beneficial and valuable when contributing to the code, determining the future of the project, and reviewing incoming Pull Requests. 

In May, we celebrated breaking our record for Pull Requests created in a month. We have broken it once more in June with 1015 pull requests created across all Magento repositories. It is another fantastic effort across the whole community, and we really appreciate everyone’s hard work.

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.

The second quarter of 2018 has come to an end. It's now time to look back at the results and achievements by each of the Solution Partner teams participating in Magento Partners Contribution Reward Program.

The month of May was a record-breaking month for the community with 638 pull requests created across all Magento repositories. In addition to the amazing amount of pull requests, we also ran some fantastic contribution days in Germany, Poland, India and Italy.

Do you have Magento 1 extensions listed on Magento Marketplace? Do you want to migrate those extensions to Magento 2? Then read on.

One topic discussed at DevExchange this year was mental illness, inspired by the attendance of Joe Ferguson from Open Sourcing Mental Illness. Mental illness affects many people in our society: 1 in 5 American adults will have a diagnosable mental health condition each year (http://mhah.org/what-we-do/) and we know that this results in huge losses in productivity. That isn’t what’s important though. What makes this issue so important for us to tackle is that people deserve to be healthy and happy.

We covered a number of topics during the Open Sourcing Mental Illness session, and I wanted to share some of my notes in the hope it provides food for thought for others who live with a condition or know someone that does. 

During the month of April, we had our Magento Imagine conference in Las Vegas, another contribution day with MageCom in the Ukraine, as well as previews for the 2.2.4 and 2.3 Magento releases.

Web APIs have been around for decades now, and as with any other technology, they are constantly evolving.

GraphQL is a newly emerged approach to web services that empowers development of optimized storefront experiences.

On Wednesday, as the final session of Imagine, Magento hosted a DevExchange.
At round tables set up throughout a large conference room, developers discussed topics that were mostly collected in advance in the community forums.

One of the topics was "Learning, training and staying up to date as a developer".

If you are a developer, you are probably familiar with feeling overwhelmed by the number of books to read, videos of talks to watch, tools and frameworks and languages to try out, and conferences and meetups to attend. Based on the interest in the topic, it seems I'm not alone.

One of the first things a new Magento developer learns is “never edit the core”. Both Magento 1 and Magento 2 are designed to be easily upgradable, and a key component of that ability to upgrade is the fact that there are a set of core files living under the Magento namespace that should never be edited. This is such common knowledge (and a frequent complaint when you inherit a project from another developer) that it’s become a meme, first as an image of Magento Evangelist Ben Marks demanding to know “Did you just edit the core?” and later as stickers and t-shirts featuring that image.

We created a middleware that catches all the requests to the Magento REST API and forwards them to a RabbitMQ queue. Then it reads the returning messages from RabbitMQ and executes them one by one. In addition, we implemented a log of all actions to easily backtrack any errors. With this internal solution we could solve all problems we had and successfully complete the customer project.

After that experience we got another idea: “Why can’t we do all this directly in Magento?”

So, we contacted Magento Community Engineering team with our proposition and we all agreed that this would be an amazing feature. Then they invited us to participate in the implementation.

Support for AMQP/RabbitMQ implementation has been added to Magento Open Source to help standardize development and to incentivize extension and integration developers to follow consistent approaches to asynchronous operations.

Magento Commerce has grown by leaps and bounds with the support of a loyal and very passionate developer community.  We continue to see strong demand from merchants for top quality extensions. The Magento Marketplace team is very happy to announce that in addition to allowing all developers to request a Magento Commerce development license we're now enabling you to request access to a Magento Commerce Cloud sandbox account. 

During the month of March, we ran our first distributed contribution day, and we saw some new faces at the top of our contributors’ leader board. We also continued to make great progress with all our GitHub repositories thanks, to the community’s help.