CDM 2020 02

openEQUELLA Community Dev Meeting February 2020

8th February 2020 (US) / 7th February 2020 (AU)

Attendees

• Chair: Nick Charles
• Scribe: Samantha Fisher (Chris Beach)

List of attendees: NickC, IanS, AaronH, CathF, ChrisB, Penghai

Agenda

General Topics

• Review Action Items
• Specific Topics (Please add to below list, or email the equella dev list to have an item added)
• Discuss code enhancements since last CDM
• Review tech choices, code structures, direction
• Any tech debt concerns
• Open PRs to discuss
• Q&A
• Assign next Chair and Scribe

Specific Topics

• Travis CI - .org versus .com (CB)
• openEQUELLA-blackboard-integration now being released via Travis (CB)
• Renovate Bot not producing updates - #1468 (IS)
• CDM flagged issues - https://github.com/openequella/openEQUELLA/labels/CDM (CB)
• Timelines for 2019.1.2 and 2020.1.0 (CB)
• Blackboard integration timelines (CB)
• Please add more

Minutes

Action items review

• CB - Discussed known working env PR
• CB - Committership effort to be handled this month
• IS - Noted hotfix release doc merged

Specific Topics

• Travis CI - com vs org
  • oEQ repos on the free tier of Travis CI com
  • IS - Travis .com and .org are merged. Any new builds / repo should be in .com
• oEQ Bb integration
  • General consensus that it's a good idea to have repos build automatically
  • IS - better to have an github bot / account to do the releases (noted action item)
• Concerns with renovate
  • IS - #1468 has good information, need deeper review
  • IS - For a few months we haven't had Renovate checking (noted action item)
• #1458 SameSite issue
  • General - there is concern, possible to tweak with web server, but need deeper effort / review.
  • IS - Need to try (CB) Blackboard, (NC) Moodle, (NC) D2L (noted action items)
• CI builds and Chrome v80
  • IS - With Chrome / Chromedriver v80 released, the CI / build will be updated soon
  • CB - Running 2019.1.3 autotests locally with Chrome v80
  • IS - there is some tech out to retry autotests to mitigate the legit flaky tests
• Release timelines
  • 2019.2.1
    • IS - bigger push to update the accessibility issues, hopefully within the next fortnight to have the issues merged into develop
    • IS - no concerns to cherry-pick the Bb LTI MVP into the hotfix/2019.2.1 branch now
  • 2020.1.0
    • CB - Cut RC by creating the release branch on 2/21, release on 3/6.
    • General - no concerns on 2020.1.0 timeline
• Bb timelines
  • CB - Noted Bb SaaS v3900 rollout schedule - https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/SaaS/Release_Notes/Learn_SaaS_Release_Schedule#cd_schedule
  • CB - Users can adopter the LTI flows now, migration B2 in progress, REST MVP planned for later this month / early March
  • CB - would be good to send mailing list msg for adopters that use the Bb integration (noted action item)

Discuss code enhancements since last CDM

• IS - improvements on accessibility - stylesheets / aria labels. Nothing destructive. Using a component branch, and will then merge into develop.
• IS - changes to Cloud Provider functionality. Will be back-ported to 2019.1 and 2019.2
• CB - Dependency upgrades

Review tech choices, code structures, direction

• IS - Interesting tree of dependencies for Tika / CXF / Spring
• General - Once Spring / Hibernate can be upgraded, let's focus on 1 major version bump per release
• CB - Rest-based auto-testing - setup via REST and testing core functionality via REST (and not selenium)
  • Generally - no concerns
  • IS - lots of E2E tests, would be good to review the REST Institution - part of OldTests / TestNG

Open PRs to discuss

Would be good to get some review / sign off on the following:

• #1230 - IS will check on the failing builds
• #1232
• #1231
• https://github.com/openequella/openequella.github.io/pull/54 - IS to review
• https://github.com/openequella/openequella.github.io/pull/39 needs some TLC (noted action item)

Q&A

• March CDM:
  • Ian - Chair
  • Sam - Scribe
  • 5th / 6th of March