Hey everyone, after being selected for GSoC 2020, there's a great summer full of open source development. This is the fifteenth weekly check-in and we're into the coding period. Here's what I've been up to this week

This week was awesome and there was a lot of stuff to do. I worked mostly on openedx and we are now very close to the first release.

What I'm up to this week ?

This week started with the fix for the most notorious problem with openedx. It was the fetching of answers for the problems and then I fixed some other small bugs with links and video alignment. I also worked upon the style fetching of the extra annexed pages and it seems that it works good as of now. I also have started to to look into the scraperlib PR regarding image optimization for GIF and WebP images.

Finally we have a reduction in the number of issues with openedx. Hoping for a release soon

Talking about the current scenario, we now have answers to questions fetched reliably and certain other small bugs solved in the openedx scraper and I think we are very near to a 1.0 release.

What's ahead now?

Right now, in my opinion, we can go into fixing the the other small bugs as they arise on openedx and shall now focus on the image optimization thing in scraperlib and the youtube downloader thing.

Challenges I faced

This week had its own small challenges and great opportunities to learn. I found out that the POST request that was required for fetching the answers was actually due to the wrong CSRF token being sent in the headers. It was a great learning experience and I was finally able to do the fix for the answer fetching for the questions.

Verdict

This week, like all other weeks in this GSoC was insanely awesome and was a great opportunity to learn. It feels great to be a part of GSoC 2020 and I'm, as always, amazed by the experience.