Dev Team Weekly StandUps 2021

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Week from 2021-06-11T18:30:00Z to 2021-06-18T18:30:00Z

Attendees: Yohan, Piumal, Anjula, Heshan, Gimhan, Gajindu, Kumuditha, Dilshan, Akeel

Sef Site

  • Updated the wire frames for UpSpeak
    • Update the thread with few SVGs to used in the page
  • When clicking on team members linkedin should open in a new tab: Pending PR
  • Suggestion for the next knowledge sharing session - Conduct a session to teach new contributors about our best practices
  • 1 new PRs from janeth:
  • Gimhan not really sure about the state. He’ll be looking into it
    • Gimhan will create a new thread on site redesigning
  • Google scripts to load the site content
    • Gajindu is working on that
    • Tested the workflow
    • Start with one page and send the pr
  • Display Github leaderboard on sef site
    • Akeel initiated the thread
  • Ranojan has sent a new google sheet with the irc researches data
    • We have to clarify on what data precisely we have to put
    • IRC page
  • Jaye suggested a UI like Google Research
    • We can copy Google

Dev Profile Badges:

  • Piumal had created the quiz with all the questions. For now use a simple description
    • Added a question sugegsted by Anjula to cover frontend
    • Suggestion to make the passing grade of the quiz 9 questions out of 13

ScholarX

  • Anjula moved the interfaces into a single file in the root
    • Next should work on the import order issues
    • Another one is to destructure the props
    • Moving axios functions into the util folder
  • Mentor flow test: Testing the Mentor Flow of ScholarX v1
    • Program logic in index.tsx can be simplified
  • Email template:
    • Gimhan Sent the PR
    • Remove unwanted parts and merge it
    • Only implemented for one template
    • Need to check the current template - with the help of scholarx team
  • Dummy user accounts:
    • Ask dilshan to update the thread
  • Piumal worked on backend test case the issue
    • Most of the tests were failing
    • He has fixed a few
    • There are about a 100 tests remaining
    • There is a problem when checking auth related tests
    • Can’t use the principle object
    • Can we use those mock linkedin profiles?
      • Jaye: What if we use a mock??
      • Piumal: It’s not possbile to cast an object
      • Jaye: First make a profile object and cast it into a principle

Next week:

  1. Anjula - Improving the import order in the shcolarx frontend
  2. Piumal - Fixing the backend tests
  3. Gimhan - Send the Email template PR, Create a thread for the irc page and come up with a basic design for it
  4. Gajindu - Send the PR to replace a json file with google script, create the page for upspeak
  5. Kumuditha - Fixing the my mentor button
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