DEPR Project board

09 January 2025

• New year, new us - Migrating everything to point to new page

• [Diana] Forums deprecation - when is removal of support for v1 forums planned to land in master? Sometime before Teak, but obviously, 2U needs more solid dates.

  • This seems to have the date of March 1 now

12 December 2024

• Review release notes for Sumac (PR, current build).

  • 3 completed DEPRs - added to the release notes already:

    • [DEPR]: Optimizely support · Issue #387 · openedx/frontend-app-learner-dashboard

    • [DEPR]: RecommendationsPanel · Issue #410 · openedx/frontend-app-learner-dashboard

    • feat: remove commerce coordinator business specific code from edx-platform by attiyaIshaque · Pull Request #35527 · openedx/edx-platform

  • 2 future DEPRs - these are already mentioned

    • [DEPR] Branding without design tokens · Issue #23 · openedx/brand-openedx

    • [DEPR]: Replace cs_comments_service · Issue #437 · openedx/cs_comments_service

  • 1 implicit DEPR

    • The Zooming Image Tool is broken · Issue #31436 · openedx/edx-platform

      • we have reimplemented it to fix the broken functionality of the tool, and this will probably be backported into Sumac

  • Should release notes mention?

    • [DEPR]: Complete removal of EdxRestApiClient · Issue #189 · openedx/public-engineering

      • This is now a breaking change in edx-rest-api-client and probably should be mentioned in release notes.

        • https://github.com/openedx/edx-rest-api-client/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#600

    • [DEPR]: Demographics Django app · Issue #35127 · openedx/edx-platform

      • good to mention it, doesn’t need a lot of detail

    • https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/35302

      • similar to above - just needs a quick mention

    • https://github.com/openedx/credentials/issues/2642

      • similar, quick mention

    • https://github.com/openedx/public-engineering/issues/32

      • more of an alert for for future releases to make sure this waffle flag is set so the behavior can be monitored and migrated

      • can grab release notes for this from: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/35185

    • probably should mention that all the ecommerce repos were archived:

      • https://github.com/openedx/public-engineering/issues/22

      • they won’t be released for Sumac

    • Dockerfiles will be removed from many repositories:

      • https://github.com/openedx/public-engineering/issues/263

      • edx-platform’s will be removed in Teak - should maybe be added to the release notes as a ‘last release with this feature’

  • things also added to the operator/dev notes page: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/4272947201/Next+Release+Sumac+-+Operator+Dev+Notes

  • [inform] DEPR of code owner monitoring: https://github.com/openedx/edx-django-utils/issues/469

  • Discussion of turning on ENABLE_BLAKE2B_HASHING on edx.org in the future.

14 November 2024

• paver deprecation delayed slightly

• 2U devstack deprecation continuing on schedule

  • main concern is edxapp which we believe should be mostly handled

  • [DEPR]: Dockerfiles and Docker images · Issue #263 · openedx/public-engineering

• announced deprecations:

  • cs_comments_service

    • [DEPR]: Replace cs_comments_service · Issue #437 · openedx/cs_comments_service

    • library will be included by default and can be toggled off for migration purposes

    • the cs_comments_service IDA can be switched off once this is ready

  • v1 content libraries

    • depr ticket will be updated

    • [DEPR]: Legacy ("V1") Content Libraries · Issue #32457 · openedx/edx-platform

  • course-discovery

    • [DEPR]: Course Discovery Service · Issue #4449 · openedx/course-discovery

• scheduling? should we move it back to the same time in US daylight savings time to encourage more

  • move the meeting back to 11am EST time for now.

• discuss [DEPR]: USE-JWT-COOKIE header · Issue #371 · openedx/edx-drf-extensions

  • try to make subtasks to see if we can get contributions to help with some of the smaller incremental steps that can move this forward

• [inform] Waffle names with spaces at the beginning or the end · Issue #389 · openedx/edx-toggles

  • this is an issue that maybe have ongoing impacts on toggles

17 October 2024

• devstack settings file deprecation has a few more weeks, due to AXIM priorities.

3 October 2024

• Discuss DEPR pilot addendums in the linked issue comment: Pilot: Use the DEPR process for breaking changes · Issue #595 · openedx/open-edx-proposals.

  • smaller DEPRs will continue to happen more quickly if we need to

  • some operators use the previous release and stick with that until the next release comes out.

• Discuss how to close https://github.com/openedx/public-engineering/issues/189#issuecomment-2310391093 (see linked comments).

  • https://github.com/openedx/edx-rest-api-client/pull/303

  • This has been deployed to most of the repos without complaint

  • The remaining issue is only related to communicating with ecommerce, which is about to be deprecated anyway.

    • This will be removed with ecommerce cleanup out of edx-platform

  • DEPR ticket has now been closed

• ecommerce deprecation is happening imminently

  • This will be happening before the Sumac cut.

  • Within the next couple of weeks or so.

  • 2U will need to be prepared for it on their end.

  • Both the ecommerce repo and all associated MFEs.

• learner dashboard may have a feature (or features) that are not handled in the MFE.

  • unclear which ones they are

  • and once we figure out which ones they are, if we need them

  • related to the MFE Rewrite work

  • This does not seem to be relevant to 2U, who is on the new dashboard

  • This panel may or may not be the only thing that’s missing: https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-learner-dashboard/issues/336

    • the search functionality seems to be the main thing we’re concerned about

  • this should be mentioned in the learner dashboard announcement, when the DEPR gets announced: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/35326

• concerns about parity in new replacements

  • how can we ensure that the replacement isn’t going to drop features without notifying the rest of the community that they will be missing?

  • this seems to be mainly concerns with MFE development right now, but it will also continue to be relevant to things like libraries

  • course authoring MFE will probably be coming down the pipe

  • This will be brought up during the release planning meeting for Sumac.

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