Core Contributor News for Sprint: Aug 30th - Sep 12th, 2025

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Core Contributor News for Sprint: Aug 30th - Sep 12th, 2025

This sprint brought mostly positive experiences. 100% of participants rated their experience as good or great, with no neutral or negative responses reported.

:tada: What are we celebrating?

@feanil

@omar

  • Released Zeitlabs Payment Plugin for Open edX: https://github.com/zeit-labs/zeitlabs-payments/ – the upcoming standard e-commerce replacement.

  • Continuing refinement for the Arabic Open edX translations guide. Useful to be translated in other languages.

  • Little progress on the JSON validation, coming up soon.

@pdpinch

  • Work on preparing for the Ulmo release is still in progress, so it seems premature to celebrate it.

:sos_button: 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!

:construction: 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. These are just some of the many PRs that require immediate review and action. In addition, there are several Draft PRs that need attention to move forward. Please take a moment to review and update them as needed so they don’t remain blocked. Thank you!

Stalled PRs: Some of the many PRs that need urgent attention:

Draft PRs: Require review and updates to move forward:

Find a full list of PRs ready for review here, or focus on edx-platform PRs that need attention.

:memo: What are the Working Groups up to?

Working Group Latest Updates
BizDev The BizDev WG focused on strengthening the BizDev ↔ Product feedback loop and consolidating client/lost deal insights into product workflows. A proposal was discussed to use Salesforce comments + AI-assisted summaries for safer, consistent trend sharing instead of exposing details in public channels. Key updates also covered the Enterprise Capability Survey, alignment with other working groups (AI, RFPs, Market Alignment), and ongoing partnership and market expansion activities. Last meeting notes → 2025-09-10 Partnership development Meeting
Build-Test-Release (BTR) The last BTR WG meeting confirmed Teak 2 shipped (Aug 21) and Ulmo’s cut date remains Oct 9, with no concerns raised.Next steps: role recruitment, retro ownership follow-up, and unassigned issue review, with release planning to confirm dates. Latest meeting notes → 2025-09-15 BTR Meeting Minutes
Contributor Coordination The working group decided to adopt an asynchronous-first model, retiring monthly meetings in favor of ad-hoc calls when necessary. Last meeting notes → 2025-05-13 CC Working Group Meeting Notes
Core Product The session reviewed Admin Console updates (current vs. future state) and RBAC wireframes, aligning the MVP and technical approach for the Ulmo release. The updated Product Review Process was presented by Mahnoor Sarwat, with next steps to update docs, GitHub forms, and share with the community. Latest meeting notes → 2025-09-09 Core Product Meeting Notes
Data The session will include a User Groups walkthrough by Maria Grimaldi, covering the Confluence page and open pull requests for openedx-user-groups. It will also feature an update from Ty Hob on Aspects upcoming releases, including the next bug fix release, future work toward a 3.0 release, simplification of the default architecture, replacing event sinks where possible, performance improvements for Ralph, and version bumps for ClickHouse, Superset, Ralph, and Vector. Last meeting notes → 2025-08-20 Meeting notes
Deprecation On Sept 4, 2025, the team reviewed old TODOs and the DEPR project board. On Aug 21, 2025, the Frontend-base Release Strategy Summit was announced. The summit is scheduled for Aug 27, 2025, focusing on the release approach for frontend-base. Last meeting notes → DEPR Meetings Notes (2025)
Documentation No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-04-17 Docs WG
Educators No current updates available.
Frontend The meeting confirmed React Query as the preferred path over Redux, with migrations encouraged but no blocking of ongoing Redux cleanup. Frontend Base (FB) migration will proceed with an operator opt-in per MFE, maintaining both legacy and FB branches for a transition period. Last meeting notes → 2025-09-11 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes
Large Instances The meeting covered AWS instance usage shifts, testing of Cypress upstream, and build/deployment improvements with Picasso, Harmony, and Argo integration. Teams are evaluating TypeSense vs. Meilisearch for large-instance search, noting tradeoffs in clustering, memory, and availability. Automation practices for MFE pipelines vary across orgs, but upcoming frontend-base consolidation aims to simplify and standardize workflows. Latest meeting notes → Large Instances Meeting Notes 2025-09-02
Learning Tools (LTI) The meeting reviewed Open edX as a Platform (consumer), focusing on the ltistore plugin, recent PRs, and next steps to fix bugs, document usage, and align with the LTI roadmap. Future plans include leveraging the learning core for storing LTI data and advancing LTI Advantage support. As a Tool (provider), the group will continue following the LTI roadmap for upcoming improvements. Latest meeting notes → 2025-09-16 Meeting notes
Maintenance The team reviewed upgrade progress: Node 24 (tickets created, PR #37166 pending merge) and Django 5.2 (on-track, awaiting final edx-platform PR) ahead of the Ulmo release cut (Oct 9). Operator notes and planning for the Ulmo release were shared, along with updates on the Repo Health Dashboard initiative led by Usama Sadiq. Next steps include reviewing the maintainers program, key metrics, and gaps, plus a demo/discussion on adopting the Repo Health Dashboard for the Open edX org. Last meeting notes → 2025-09-04 Meeting notes
Marketing The upcoming Open edX Meetup will cover UniDigital and Sandbox updates, with registration open for “Transformative Enhancements and Hands-On Exploration”. An external consultant was engaged to refine the go-to-market strategy, and potential 2025 conference participations were discussed (Bett, LT Paris, eLearning Africa, HR Tech Europe). The BizDev sub-group shared its weekly update, including an OKR strategy review on GitHub in coordination with the Marketing WG. Last meeting notes →Agenda, Sep 18th, 2025
Mobile The group reviewed multi-tenancy/learning academies proofs of concept, featuring tenant selectors, custom branding, and mobile app integration, with an OEP draft under review. Next steps include community review, roadmap planning (dynamic theming, Paragon colors), and revisiting the Confluence proposal for product direction. Updates also covered the Ulmo cutoff (Oct 9), with scope on course content, progress, and app-level dates—some items blocked by pending backend PRs. Latest meeting notes →Agenda, September 12th, 2025
Technical Oversight Committee No current updates available. Last meeting notes → TOC Meeting Notes - 2025-05-14
Translation Language performance declined after the transition from edx-platform to openedx-translations, with machine translations now active for all languages except Portuguese (Portugal). Updates were shared by Eden Huthmacher, with details available in the Translation Working Group resources. A GitHub board review was also highlighted for ongoing tracking and coordination. Last meeting notes → 2025-08-20 Translation WG Meeting
UX/UI The session included quick updates on current UX/UI efforts, including a centralized database of design projects (Sam Daitzman) and a proposal to reintroduce the search bar in the Learner Dashboard (Chelsea Rathbun). Edward Byun shared progress on a Platform UX issue tracker, while Santiago Suarez proposed a multi-question problem editor to enhance authoring flexibility. Last meeting notes → 2025-06-12 - UX/UI Working Group Meeting

:date: What events are coming up?

:rocket: What are we working on?

:handshake: Want to participate in Core Contributor Governance?

  • Participate to the work of the Contributor Coordination Working Group. The group works asynchronously using the working group tasks board, and we’d love your input there. You can review and comment on existing threads there, or post your own topic to discuss with the group by creating your own ticket on the board (“+ Add item” in “New topics and issues to discuss”).

:speech_balloon: Anything to add?

Share your thoughts in Slack (openedx.slack.com) or the comments below!

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