Node 18 - edx-platform Retro

Timeline

Apr 9th 11am - First merged Node 18 upgrade PR
- Relevant PR: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/34311
Apr 9th 1pm - 2U Deployment fails during production paver update_assets step.
Apr 9th 3pm - We discovery that the edx-platform production webpack config is not being tested due to complexities in how it’s run with paver
Apr 10th 7am - edx.org starts eeing new errors in courseware with some content refusing to load.
Apr 10th 10am - Rollback Node 18 Upgrade from edx-platform github repo.
Apr 19th 2pm - Brian has figured out and has a PR to fix most of the courseware loading issues. Including making some test suites run that weren’t running before.
- Relevant PR: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/34503
Apr 23rd 10am - Merge new PR to edx-platform
Apr 23rd 12pm - Issues related to proctoring JS found on edx.org staging environment.
Apr 23rd 1pm - Brian S. tries to setup a proctoring environment locally to re-produce the issue but was unable to setup a working proctoring environment.
Apr 23rd 2pm - After some discussion, Diana H. puts up a PR that we can merge so that we can test on the edx.org staging environment since there was no way to test locally.
Apr 23rd 4pm - Manual testing on edx.org staging environment confirms that the proctoring issues have been fixed.