Agenda (1/5/21)

• Update / Review DRAFT - Koa Platform Release Notes

  • Diana Huang to add DEPR tickets to the notes - can review with group next meeting

• Site Configuration & White Label

  • update: it seems like the Open edX community isn’t interested in supporting this functionality

  • Can we talk to enterprise about removing these with assistance from DEPR?

  • We have code, templates, and data that all should be removed, but can be removed separately

  • talk to the service owners about removing site-specific code as well. does it make sense to deprecate this directly?

  • exclude: theming for now

• Check in with Revenue team about https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-90

• 2021 Goals

  • White Label and Site Configuration code

    • Action Item: write a DEPR ticket to gauge community reactions to the deprecation, offer up eduNext model as an alternative - Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

    • Action Item: communicate with enterprise team about future plans to deprecate white label and get buy in and support - Diana Huang

  • Microfrontend/Frontend code

    • Koa has rudimentary support for MFEs

    • Lilac has plans to streamline MFE

    • How do we want to handle this removal of code?

      • ID verification might be a good place to start?

        • has a DEPR ticket

      • Learner profiles

      • start anything currently ‘Accepted’

    • Old Mongo

      • blocked by old mongo courses on edge

        • waiting for product to assess the state of edge

      • should be able to move forward in it

  • Phase out configuration?

    • could be a big project goal

    • looking into replacements

    • write up a project plan on this once we get further on it

  • XServer

    • In progress

  • EdxRestApiClient

    • review the list of services

    • focus on edx-platform, credentials, discovery - others are in the process of being deprecated, potentially

  • XModule → XBlock

  • DEPR pipeline

    • Can we provide a query or something to the eng directors regarding the engineering ops review?

    • Focus on it next quarter?

•  Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated) write a DEPR ticket to gauge community reactions to the deprecation, offer up eduNext model as an alternative
•  Diana Huang communicate with enterprise team about future plans to deprecate white label and get buy in and support

Agenda (1/19/21) -

• XServer

  • This just needs a little bit of verification left

  • Just want to make sure we’re not breaking any courses unintentionally

• import shims

  • reviewing the last few PR that are importing the wrong way

  • going to be put into #slash-n-burn channel for group to review

  • woohoo!

• updates

  • XModule → XBlock conversions: XModule to XBlock Conversion

  • Old Mongo

    • getting rid of courses on edx.org in Q3

    • looking at what is on edge

  • part of the TNL OGSPs, so looking good

• white label + site configuration

  • still need to talk to enterprise about the future of this work

  • still used in other repos to split by sites

  • can we make a separate process for external deprecations? - where external teams are responsible for doing the deprecation work

• configuration repo

  • dependent on getting devstack and other docker containers off of being reliant on this

  • Open edX looking for alternatives right not

  • BTR - hoping Lilac will be the last Open edX release to use configuration

  • Open edX is only half of the solution - internal edX usages like sandboxes will also have to move off of it

Agenda (2/2/21)

• From Robert: I have a proposed slash-n-burn activity that goes along with our upcoming Toggle Doc-a-thon, but it concerns data clean-up and not code clean-up. I suspect that our Toggle State Report spreadsheet has many rows due old waffle data in our environments that is no longer used in code. The spreadsheet would be even more useful if this data could be cleaned up.

  • We’d need to confirm what data should be cleaned up.

  • We’d need to decide if clean-up would use manual deletion, or if we’d add a migration to hit all environments.

  • Could ARCHBOM be responsible for doing this cleanup?

    • Impact isn’t clear as of yet

    • Bring this back to ARCHBOM for discussion

  • How do we make the toggle report up to date and actionable?

• Review potential DEPR work suggested by Robert in #slash-n-burn after the doc-a-thon

  • USE_MICROSITES: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aedx+USE_MICROSITES&type=code

  • ENABLE_STUDENT_NOTES: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aedx+ENABLE_STUDENT_NOTES&type=code

  • XBLOCK_FS_STORAGE_BUCKET - unclear if this is okay to be removed

    • We should make a DEPR ticket for this setting to ensure no external XBlocks are using

• Look at new DEPR-140 for UserProfile.allow_certificates:

  • https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-140

  • Reach out to Justin to remind him of the DEPR process around announcement

    • Also ensure best practices around DB migrations are followed

• EdxRestApi update - https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-21

  • did an example one with e2e-tests

    • should we disable

  • credentials PR is a good example for what this looks like:

    • https://github.com/edx/credentials/pull/969

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-108

  • Follow up with Marco about this work - Sarina Canelake (Do Not Use) (Deactivated)

• Account pages and Learner Profile pages - https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-17

  • Unblocked - can be worked on by the team

• Ecommerce - https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-42

  • Maybe hold off until decision made

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-120

  • Check in with Simon about this

• Everything else: ping reporters to ask them to send out announcements to the community to move the process forward

• Hackathon

  • Suggest - https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-21

  • Solicit suggestions from the Mobile team about DEPR related things

    • Repos that can be DEPR-ed?

Agenda (2/16/21)

• Hackathon readout

  • need to refactor the configuration and usage of edx-enterprise’s api client to use the single edx-enterprise user

  • need a review for course-discovery’s refactoring

• Check in on existing streams

  • some things moved into accepted

• pycontracts DEPR ticket to be written - Diana Huang

• Hack(?)

Agenda (3/2/21)

• Check-In: https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-142

  • needs review: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/26772

• Diana Huang needs to announce pycontracts DEPR ticket

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-58 update

  • still being held up by Edge content

    • okay to make it safe(?)

  • need to handle the edge cases

    • handle edge cases where course information is no longer available

    • will make it possible to ‘retire’ or ‘delete’ courses

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-124

  • will be removed at the end of the week

• XModule → XBlock conversion continuing

  • no DEPR ticket because backwards compatible

  • getting closer! actively worked on by OpenCraft

  • after this, still need to remove all the underlying peak/plateau confusion in the modulestore code

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/DEPR-150

  • need to make a decision about django admin login before announcement

  • Feanil Patel to do this