2026-01-22 Meeting notes

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Date

Jan 22, 2026

Item	Presenter	Notes

Item	Presenter	Notes
		Named Release Planning React 18 in edx-platform Blocked behind Legacy studio frontend cleanup which is scheduled to be worked on by Aximprovements. This will get picked up by them afterwards.
		Seeking more maintainers Seeking New Maintainers
		Automating more Maintenance Semantic Release all the Things Auto-package updates if tests pass Feels like the right thing to do but makes people nervous because the test coverage in the backend is not very good. What about doing just automating all the minor and patch bumps and only require manual review on major version bumps. For libraries, we should auto merge, and for IDAs manual review for major version bumps. tl;dr; only review major version bumps of packages in IDAs, everything else should auto merge if tests pass. Consolidating Repos Start w/ a DEPR and produce other docs as people ask for them.
edx-platform		PR for moving to pyproject.toml Precursor to try moving to `ruff` and `uv`

@Feanil Patel Check in w/Tony about seeking new maintainers

@Feanil Patel propose tooling changes to support automating more package updates. See if renovate can help with backend updates better these days.

@Feanil Patel Make a ticket to centralize the renovate config for all frontend packages and use it in all existing frontend packages.