2025-08-07 Meeting notes

Node 22/24 Upgrade

• Waiting for Review from Adolfo on something that Peter was working on.

  • So far no issues so we will probably jump straight to Node 24

  • RG(Peter) and Adolfo will coordinate the work.

• Target going to Node 24 before we cut Ulmo, this is a release blocker.

  • Update all Released MFEs and Libraries to use Node 24 · Issue #407 · openedx/public-engineering

React 19

• We should schedule this. People are asking for this.

• Target after Ulmo before Verawood
  
  

Requirements Upgrade workflow for Forks

Usama Sadiq

build: make requirements upgrade workflow compatible with forks by UsamaSadiq · Pull Request #181 · openedx/.github
Created PR in openedx/.github. Tested on fork

• Tag Feanil once testing is done.

Dependabot vs Renovate

• We can turn off Dependabot by updating the dependabot.yml file that only uses it to update github workflows. Which is still important.

• Next Steps

  • Only use Dependabot for Github Workflow Updates

  • Ensure Renovate is enabled on all repos that have Node usage. (Backends and Frontends)

Big Picture Items to Think About Next

• Backlog is always going to be bigger than the maintainers ability?

  • We should be communicating what needs to be done and so if we have capacity they can pick up things we need done.

• Finding more maintainers

  • WGU has been moving fast and could be a good source of maintainers for some of our repositories.

• Potential Next Projects

  • pyproject.toml conversion

  • Move to uv

  • Replace webpack with something faster

    • rsbuild or vite are potential candidates

    • Likely behind the Node upgrade

  • Dropping Elasticsearch

  • App extractions as plugins

    • edx-enterprise not being install by default but it’s a really big one.

      • Start by adding filters wherever enterprise code is being used in edx-platform.