Core Contributor News for Sprint: Apr 12th - Apr 25th, 2025
This sprint brought a mix of experiences. 66% rated their experience as either good or great, while 33% faced some challenges.**
What are we celebrating?
- Good progress on the Upstreaming Masterclass! We are almost ready for the v1 release.
- Teak.master is released
Who needs help?
If there’s anything you’re stuck on, need help with, or would like input on, please feel free to leave a comment in this topic. We’re here to support you!
What Pull Requests (PRs) need review?
As a CC, check for PRs that are stuck and need attention. Don’t have write access? No problem! You can still help by reviewing to move things forward. Ping Axim if there are issues merging after you review.
Below is a list of stalled PRs that need urgent attention:
- feat: Added correct image for FB sharing (master)
- feat: Added correct image for FB sharing (quince.master)
- feat: xblock asides view for rendering in an iframe in MFE
- chore: Remove usage of deprecated
assertDictContainsSubsetunittest method. - fix: cohorts api permissions
- feat: adaptive display of links for Quince
- feat: use profile name in navbar if available
- feat: third party authentication automatic logout with a single redirect
- fix: styles for share video functionality of the video xblock
- fix: problem editor content style
Find a full list of PRs ready for review here, or focus on edx-platform PRs that need attention.
What are the Working Groups up to?
| Working Group | Latest Updates |
|---|---|
| BizDev | Global RFPs and partnerships are progressing, with new channels, active partner responses, and marketplace visibility improvements.Testing and alignment efforts continue (LTI 1.3, product-market fit, and lead survey analysis). Next meeting (May 7) will focus solely on Go-To-Market strategy. Latest meeting notes → 2025-04-16 Partnership development Meeting |
| Build-Test-Release (BTR) | Teak testing is underway, with new test cases added and a virtual testathon planned for May 6. Forums v2 migration bugs are being tracked, and feature flag discussions are ongoing with Chelsea coordinating next steps. No red flags yet, but weekly meetings have started to closely monitor testing progress and address blockers. Latest meeting notes → 2025-04-28 BTR Meeting Minutes |
| Contributor Coordination | The group is shifting to async updates via the issues board, with live meetings only when needed to resolve open points. There’s also a proposal for regular surveys to assess community health and improve governance processes. Further formal details will follow, but feedback and ideas are welcome. Latest meeting notes → 2025-04-15 CC Working Group Meeting Notes |
| Core Product | Board triage focused on reviewing and organizing tickets; participants were reminded to reach out in #wg-product-core for support. Updates were shared on Axim CBE product discovery. Chelsea Rathbun will schedule a 60–90 minute virtual test-a-thon for Teak release testing. Latest meeting notes → 2025-04-22 Core Product Meeting Notes |
| Data | The Data Working Group discussed improving Studio analytics with better accessibility, clearer titles, and user guides. They also explored enhancing data for multi-part problems, with more details expected in the Ulmo release. Next meeting: May 7. Latest meeting notes → 2025-03-05 Meeting notes |
| Deprecation | 15 Apr: Retro on Studio waffle-flip—discussed if flipping flags from opt-in to opt-out adds value before making features mandatory. 01 Apr: Checked readiness of codejail-service for Teak release. Latest meeting notes → DEPR Meetings Notes (2025) |
| Documentation | The team emphasizes shared responsibility for tasks and collaboration. John Swope suggests using the conference to identify contributors for documentation roles. Sarina Canelake highlights the success of documentation on filing issues and proposes improving LTI integration documentation before the conference talk. They also discuss updating documentation on unsupported features in Open edX and how to qualify them properly. Latest meeting notes → 2025-04-17 Docs WG |
| Educators | No current updates available. |
| Frontend | The team discussed challenges with SPAs in Open edX, including redundant builds, maintenance issues, and performance concerns. The proposed solution involves unifying dependencies into modular libraries, improving frontend management and developer experience. Action items include continuing the Learner Dashboard conversion and sharing discussion notes with the community for feedback. Latest meeting notes → 2025-04-28 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes |
| Large Instances | The DevOps meeting on April 29, 2025, focused on scaling Open edX, with discussions on AWS infrastructure automation, migration optimization, and Kubernetes cost efficiency. The team reviewed AI tool integration, progress in reducing initialization times, and ongoing issues with forum migrations and micro-frontend bugs. Latest meeting notes → Large Instances Meeting Notes 2025-04-29 |
| Learning Tools (LTI) | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-04-01 Meeting notes |
| Maintenance | The meeting discussed progress on ongoing tasks, including the cleanup of catalog files and openedx.yaml across repos, with a call for maintainers to assist. The transition from Python 3.8 to 3.12 is progressing well and is still on the maintenance backlog. The decision was made not to add edx-name-affirmation to Open edX. Latest meeting notes → 2025-04-24 Meeting notes |
| Marketing | No current updates available. Last meeting notes →Agenda, April 16th, 2025 |
| Mobile | The Mobile Working Group discussed mobile feature explorations, SCORM XBlock testing issues, and offline download improvements. They are working on a mobile IAP plugin and optimizing the course dates API. Development on these topics is ongoing, with some delays in offline mode improvements. Last meeting notes →Agenda, April 16th, 2025 |
| Technical Oversight Committee | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → TOC Meeting Notes - 2025-03-12 |
| Translation | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-04-16 Translation WG Meeting |
| UX/UI | No current updates available. Last meeting notes →2025-04-03 - UX/UI Working Group Meeting |
What events are coming up?
- Teak is here!
Testing: Apr 25–Jun 8 · Launch: June 9, 2025. Open edX Releases Homepage - The Open edX Conference 2025 is July 1 – 4, 2025 at Télécom Paris.
- Seeking additional sponsors
- Educause 2025: EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2025 - 4 Providers confirmed (Edly, Intela, Aulasneo, and DRC).
- G2M Presentation: May 7th at 11 AM (EDT) - review deck in preparation
- Join a working group meeting using the community calendar.
What are we working on?
- Our community is working on exciting projects! Visit our Open edX Roadmap and Release Planning Spreadsheet to find out what’s happening.
Want to participate in Core Contributor Governance?
- Join us for the next Contributor Coordination Working Group Meeting on Tuesday, May 13th to collaborate on planning and aligning contributor efforts. We’re working on some exciting projects, and we’d love your input. Help us shape the future of Open edX!
Add the meeting to your calendar
Anything to add?
Share your thoughts in Slack (openedx.slack.com) or the comments below!