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PWA Studio 9.0.0 release notes and improvements to community contribution process

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I have everyone in terms of presenters, so let's get started um all right, so uh hi everyone yep welcome again to the pwa studio, community, sync uh and demo. um Today we have uh some good content, we're a little bit. uh We don't have. We don't have much on uh technical demos, but there are a couple really good topics for us today. um uh One we'll we'll go over the upcoming release.

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Talk about the release, notes um with mr cockerband and then the other top major topic here is that steven has been really working hard to make sure that we repopulate the community board in terms of uh work items that, if you're a community member that wants to contribute to the project and you've been looking for uh prioritized items that have some good detail on on how you can help and where you can get started.

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uh Steven's done a really good job, trying to put some items together and make sure that we're tracking those and and he'll talk about the kind of new process going into 2021 of how we uh we, as a core team, will work with community if you're willing to contribute so a couple, really good topics um and we'll get into those after that. We'll kind of take open questions uh open open uh kind of items from the community.

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If there's, uh if there's anything, you'd like to know about pw studio, what we're working on and then we'll kind of wrap up and and move on with our week. So uh uh first up we're gonna, have uh mr kalkivan to talk about release, notes.

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Cool thanks andrew. uh Let me share my screen.

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Does everyone see my screen?

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Yes, yes, all right, so, first up how to get to the release notes. uh We want to go into the release, 9.0 branch first and then click on change log and that's where you'll find upcoming release notes, at least a preview of the upcoming release notes.

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um So so what do we do? In 9.0? One of the big things uh that we've released in this is the improvements to the extensibility framework.

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One of the most exciting things is uh targetables is made available in this release. um If you're not familiar with our extensibility framework, you can click on this topic here and get a good refresher or an overview of how everything works.

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um Next up is you know. With with the extensively framework, we got extensions in this release. We have a new extensions directory and it contains extensions that we use in venia.

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They provide a lot of good features that that we use, but they also provide good examples of what a pwa studio extension looks like um you know, and how it works with the targets and targetables so give that a look if you're interested in creating extensions uh next feature is the internationalization and localization work that we did. um This basically lets you provide translations uh for different locales, there's also a topic for that.

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That goes over how that works, and it's linked here so take a look at that, if you're interested in how that works or if you're thinking of creating your own language pack, there is an example, a language pack extension in the extensions directory if you're interested in what that looks like this release, also provides my account uh components.

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That's it's still ongoing. I believe, but these are the features from my account that are available in this release, which lists save payments, address, spoken order, history and finally, we've increased our test coverage in this release from the last one, which was 79 to 84 percent, and you can take a look down on coveralls. um One thing, though, is we finally fixed our coveralls badge there, and you can take a look at that in here pretty exciting stuff.

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It's been, it had been broken for a while, but now it's it's back up there and then, of course, after that, we've got these. The list of pull requests in this release notes uh there's about 100 of them. I forgot to count but yeah, there's about 100 pull requests in this release, some known issues, if you're using multi-source, inventory or msi a graphql issue, surfaces that prevent you from adding a configurable product to the shopping, cart on non-default store views.

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Also, the pre-render feature isn't able to catch html on fastly enabled environments and another. The last known issue we've uh we're listing is the yarn watch process uh can run out of memory if you leave it on for a long time, such as the overnight, maybe like six to 12 hours is, I think, what's been reported um and that's and of course, the upgraded steps they're not different from any previous releases.

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uh Are there any questions about the release, notes.

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Questions all right, great, the release, mister that great, but uh just a reminder, just jump in there that the the I think, the timeline and anybody can correct me if I'm misspeaking on our side right. But I think the timeline is still we're targeting the ninth. um So that's the the date if you're looking for.

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Did you want to talk? Were you going to talk coveralls, badges too by the way? Sorry, oh.

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I I thought I brought that up already, but yeah our coverall badges is, you can see it in the repository oh and there we go there's one one. Other uh thing I forgot to mention was our release: support change um uh in previous releases. We used to do uh the current and previous versions um for 9.0 we're we're only doing this version. um This upcoming version of magento that's being released in our support, matrix um yeah, and that was it.

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Any any questions around uh release, release, notes.

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All right, uh stephen, you are up.

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The release notes look great by the way james. I just want to call that out there really comprehensive and that seemed like it'll be really easy to read through so um okay cool. I just want to go over something real, quick uh that I've been trying to tidy up.

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I guess um over the last few weeks, um if you've ever jumped into the project- and you were interested in contributing- and you wanted to see where you could help- you might have gone to the issues- tab and tried to search for some issues, but it uh let's just see what happens if you do this there's a lot of stuff here and it's not really clear um 120 pages of issues- that's a lot of stuff!

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Oh well! I haven't. I have it on all issues, never mind. It's probably a lot less if it's just open issues uh but anyways uh one thing I've been trying to do is add this ready for dev label um sort of similar to the help wanted label.

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I guess that we used to use- um and I'm not really sure, if we're going to continue using that, but I wanted to add some some this label to some tickets to indicate that we would like someone to help us with these uh issues and over the you know in in the future, going forward, I'm gonna be trying to maintain a decent list here of a few features and a few bugs just hopefully um fully detailed or at least have to have enough information so that anyone can jump in and have some guidance on how to tackle the given issue.

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As you can see here, we've got three feature: requests and a bug. I think I had groomed like three bugs and two of them have already got knocked out by by contributors, which is awesome.

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So it's a little bit light right now, but I I plan to add a few more there um and, of course, if you have an issue that you think is or like a feature or a bug that you think is really urgent or important, bring it up to us. In slack, you know ping ping, one of the team members or andrew or eric, and we can try and prioritize it accordingly.

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But if you're, if you're, just looking for something to pick up and you're hoping to find something, that's really ready to work on sort. It open issues with the label of ready for dev, and that should give you a good idea of what to do so just real quickly. I could go over this one. I mean actually they're all pretty pretty uh explanatory and I've added information to each one, hoping to hoping that the guidance there is sufficient for you all to get going.

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So, if there's a, if there's a gap there, please let me know and I'll try to make sure I add more detail to those tickets.

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Just to show you another thing. This is just what I what I've been doing to to get that. That view um filled out. uh I I go to these open issues and I'm looking through these tickets with the ready for grooming label. That is now what gets what gets added by our system.

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uh We have some bots that sort of sync things up for us, and so, if I see the ready for grooming label, I'm going to go ahead and and try and tackle this and I'm trying to go in reverse order. So I'm doing I'm I'm go probably going to to hit the older ones first, just because they uh deserve to be to be addressed um a lot of stuff. You, you probably know, falsely the cracks were pretty pretty thin at times.

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So uh so apologies ahead of times, if, um if something that you opened is not addressed um but know that we're trying to get to them all um so yeah as you can see, I've got some. uh Then one thing I wanted to add: if you open an issue and you see the requires follow-up label, that's something I'm trying to do now to indicate to myself and to to you the community. If you've opened an issue, someone will try and look at it and determine if it's a valid issue.

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If there's anything else, we need, and if there is something that we need from you I'll add. The label requires follow-up so that we sort of know we're waiting to hear back from from someone about this issue. um Just that way.

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uh That way, if I'm looking at this at a at a high level, I can just see which which tickets I've touched on and which I haven't yet so, as you can see, there's a few with this label already um so yeah and that's about it. um I look forward to some contributions from y'all appreciate it.

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Steven yeah, the only thing I would also add here is you know as much as possible. uh You know we love all contribution from the community, but I would say as much as possible. Please try to make sure that you're working with us that you're contacting steve and you're contacting myself before.

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You actually start writing code for a contribution, because it can save you a lot of headache and it can save us a lot of a lot of overhead, especially because there are times when things are contributed that maybe a team member internally is already working on that. Just isn't visible on the on the external board, um and so it really would.

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It really helps us to be able to make sure that we have visibility on the work as it's as it's coming into the pipeline, and that way we can also make sure that we're processing it faster or that we give the go ahead um and stephen will be there to work with um you as a community member uh to to actually uh you know, uh move the item into progress and then to finish it up and get it actually uh into the code base right.

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So um stephen is your point of contact, I'm your point of contact as community members. If you want to contribute um and then also if you have questions about, I think there are some questions in the pwa uh community chat this morning on on what we're working on or if there are tickets to track certain issues. um You know don't hesitate to reach out and let us know we'll make sure all of the work we're doing and we're trying to be as transparent as possible.

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um Any questions here for stephen or myself, or anyone on the team around this new community ready for dev process.

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It was perfect.

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Lars saying good to go all right: uh okay, yeah perfect uh great, so um uh I guess we'll just do kind of open open forum here. uh If anyone has any topics, they want to bring up any questions that they have about pwa studio, what we're doing where we're heading anything community related. This is this is the time for that. Take a quick.

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Pause yeah, I would say no questions just comments. I think you know really good work. You know andrew steven and team on on shoring up the the backlog here for the community. I think that continues to give us a really really strong. uh You know transparent connection with the community and you know, 9.0 looks really really strong, so also plus one to calculate on the release, notes there so all good stuff, and so we continue to get really good feedback from others in the community who are always here uh for that one so definitely appreciated.

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Thanks eric um well, if there's nothing else, uh we'll we'll wrap things up here, uh hey we'll see you guys all all everyone uh next week, uh we'll have some demos uh coming up too. We'll also talk a little bit more about road map and some road map updates going into 2021 uh if you're, if you're curious about about where we're headed right so we'll do that on an upcoming call as well.

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So thanks, everyone uh we'll see you next week have a great rest of your wednesday great rest. Your week week.

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