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- Technically, a low-level library with little to no dependencies on the rest of the platform.
- Does not change very often - and especially not that often by the new TNL team.
- It's one of the common dependencies between LMS and CMS. So extracting the MS would pave the path toward splitting them as well.
- MS tests take about 8mns on Jenkins - that amount of test time would be shaved off of edx-platform builds.
Hackathon Experiments
As part of edX Hackathon XV, I experimented extracting out the modulestore code and its dependencies out into separate repos. I ended up creating the following 2 repos:
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