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Livestream: Project Overview Jan 18th!
- Save the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bCXz5jETjM
- January 18, 2019, 1pm CST/8pm CET
- Want to start contributing? Looking for a new project to join? This livestream we walk through all of our current and new special projects! Find a new project, updates on current projects, and more!
https://twitter.com/MagentoEngCom/status/1080925532664008706
Community Engineering News
Seeking Maintainers!
- The Community Engineering team is seeking new maintainers. We have added information to the maintainers site and tweeted. The weekly newsletter will include information for those interested. Please have anyone interested to contact us at engcom@adobe.com.
Free Magento Courses and Magento Community submissions!
- Register to get your free videos: https://u.magento.com/free-video-library#.XDTSu5NKjxg
- Share your expertise, tips, best practices, and knowledge with the community! And earn Professor Points towards Magento swag and Community Forum Badges! See the Contribute Videos section on this page to learn more, see a list of suggested topics, and start sharing. We have incredible videos and series, including some highlighted videos.
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- Highlighted Video Series: Brent W. Peterson on Magento Migration from M1 to M2 including themes, custom code, the Migration Toolkit, data migration, and more!
MSI
Project Board | GitHub | Slack |DevDocs | User Guide
Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo and Igor Gorin
- Work Dec 22 to Jan 7:
- 6 PRs created
- 4 PRs merged
- 11 issues opened
- 7 issues closed
- Milestone 3 for planned and groomed work
- Amasty released the Magento 2 Advanced MSI extension: https://amasty.com/blog/new-magento-extensions/ | https://amasty.com/advanced-msi-for-magento-2.html
- We will be moving from Zoom to BlueJeans meetings. Links will be posted soon.
- Alex Lyzun from comwrap presented on Bulk API and async processing of Source migration using MySQL adapter: #1962 Also set up an issue in the Async repo for continued work to support MySQL: #19
- Igor Miniailo provided information on questions from Slack and Issues, some answers collected in MSI FAQs, and preparation for the upcoming 1.1.0 release!
- Slava Moskalyuk presented progress on a product status issue for Configurable Product parent (possibly Grouped product) when performing bulk transfers: #1972
- Lori Krell updated documentation:
- New page for MSI Installation and Release Notes with notes for upcoming package 1.1.0
- Added draft content for Distance Priority algorithm by Riccardo Tempesta (@RicTempesta)from MageSpecialist in Configure Source Selection Algorithm and Shipment and Order Management
Meetings:
- Grooming: Thursdays 10-11am CST, https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473
- Demo: Fridays 10-11am CST, https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473
Meeting recordings:
- Jan 11th: https://youtu.be/Cqt8qHhhqps
- Demo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woJ3EkoxD8w&index=72&list=PLrQ5FBCRsEbWKK6U_3Awe7X-nG7KY0WPW&t=0s
GraphQL
Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs
Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda and Igor Gorin
Status Dec 22 - Jan 11:
Articles:
Meetings:
- Meetings kicking off this week!
- Demo Meeting: Thursdays, 10-11am CST, https://bluejeans.com/180764326
PWA Studio
Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs
Magento Coordinator: Eric Erway, James Zetlen, Andrew Wilcox, and Igor Gorin
- Updates from December 22 to January 11:
- For January 4th:
- Community grooming meeting reformatted this week to a high-level project update. As we continue to move toward full Kanban processes, the standing meeting will evolve to cover topics from demo, backlog prioritization, and story decomposition. Stay tuned for details!
- 1 Community PR in the last week including: #726: A fix for autocomplete popup incorrectly displaying in search
- 40 (-69%) commits in the last 2 weeks (holidays)
- 10 Contributors (-41%) in the last week (holidays)
- Sample mega menu created with Venia:
Meetings:
- Grooming: Fridays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
- Demo: Mondays, 10-11am CDT, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
Meeting recordings:
- Jan 4th: https://youtu.be/bm0GLkrwZeA
- Jan 11th: https://youtu.be/qZhb4Qm_KSA
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
- 4 issues created
- 3 PRs created
- 2 PRs merged
- Merged base Async Module implementation, by Alex Lyzun: #29
- Created a fix for Async Swagger implementation, by Alex Lyzun: #31
- Received PR for allow DELETE operations to execute asynchornously, by Patrick McLain: #30
- Seeking contribution! Create Asynchronous implementation for DB connection type, #19
Meeting:
- Wednesdays, 10-11am CST, https://bluejeans.com/4118702911
Import/Export
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
Magento Coordinator: David Manners and Igor Gorin
General info:
- This project will be merging and continuing in 2019 with the Asynchronous/Bulk API project. We will have updates and information after the holiday break on the timing for the project merge!
- David is continuing to review, complete, and merge PRs. If you would like to help, please reach out on Slack or in the PRs.
Meeting:
- Fridays, 9-9:30am CST, https://bluejeans.com/1124558407
MFTF
Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs
Magento Coordinator: Sheila Shrewsbury
- Amasty provided a blog on How to make a smooth start with MFTF [Checklist]: https://amasty.com/blog/how-to-start-with-mftf/
Localization and Translations
Slack | Japanese GitHub | Magento CrowdIn | Google Doc
Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy, Piotr Kaminski, and Igor Gorin
- Magento plans to start work on translation flow improvement February 2019.
- We plan to implement several tools to automate workflow and have more tight integration between GitHub repositories and CrowdIn.
Magento 2
Magento Architecture
Project Board | GitHub | Slack
- Automated configuration file cache invalidation, by Anton Kril: #62
- Simplified module declaration, by Anton Kril: #63
- Framework components as first-class citizens, by Anton Kril: #64
- Skip generation of product in categories url rewrites, by Cris Partica: #61
- Services decomposition guidelines, by Igor Melnikov: #60
- Merged, Change schema of Import sources to AsyncImport module, by Alex Lyzun: #58
Meetings:
- Biweekly - Wednesday, 10:30am CST, https://magento.zoom.us/j/147176855
- Meeting Notes and Agendas
- Video Playlist
- Jan 9th: https://youtu.be/uZtsbpFqVxI