Date: March 1, 2023
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DRAFT. THIS IS A DRAFT. |
Introduction
The Deprecation Working Group focuses primarily on managing deprecation processes. Our primary goal is to get duplicate/unsupported/useless code removed from the platform.
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We review the Deprecation Board and work to move things all the way to ‘fully removed’.
We review the deprecation processes and OEP to ensure that the process is as smooth and as easy as it possibly can be.…
Concrete Plans - Next 6 Months
Over the next six months, the deprecation working group has some really exciting work queued up. We hope to drive {key metrics, description of impact, etc}. Our primary goals are to { work on / complete / another word} the following tasks and projects:
Task/project 1; 1-2 sentences of importance/impact
Task/project 2; 1-2 sentences of importance/impactContinuing work on UI deprecation for non-MFE UIs.
Deprecating the edx-sphinx-theme and using the new theme across our documentation.
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If applicable: Links to roadmaps/GitHub projects/important wiki pages/etcOptional: We’ll provide a deeper dive into (name project(s) you’ll deep dive into) later in this report.
Deep Dive: Accomplishment/In-progress Initiative/Ongoing Task/Concrete Plan
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Old Mongo Deprecation
All student and instructor access to Old Mongo courses has been removed.
Old Mongo will now be a read-only Modulestore that only supports returning the root CourseBlock (so we don’t break CourseOverviews).
Removing static asset support is blocked on certificates (which stores signatures there). We’re working on migrating this out.