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The purpose of this document is to explain the plans of the Development Environment Working Group for improving the development environment for 2u/OCM employees, in particular the decision to focus on promoting wider adoption of the Tutor environment.

Background

The Development Environment (DevEnv) working group was created in February 2022 with the initial purpose of facilitating the adoption of the Tutor development environment across OCM. Tutor is the current standard environment for Open edX deployment and is becoming widely used in the Open edX community for development as well. The latest releases were created without any devstack-compatible images, so anyone developing off the release branches (as opposed to master) cannot use devstack at all. See https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3324149773/Development+Environment+DevEnv+Working+Group#Why-Tutor%3F for more information on the choice to move to Tutor.

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