Core Contributor News for Sprint: July 5th - July 18th, 2025
This sprint brought mostly positive experiences. 75% of participants rated their experience as good or great, while 25% reported a neutral experience or faced some challenges.
What are we celebrating?
- We are slowly but steadily moving Ukrainian translations up. And we now have more responses for Distinguished Contributor Program so soon we are closing the nominations and moving to the next stage.
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:
- fix: cohorts api permissions
- fix: problem editor content style
- fix: course outline not found issue for ccx courses
- fix: visual and progress score display enhancement
- fix: Remove horizontal scroll on instructor page in RTL version
- feat: api for shifting all relative past due dates
- fix: Ensure problem response reports include all descendant problems regardless of nesting or randomization
- fix: implement repr method in order to avoid maximum recursion error
- fix: fixed styles for legacy xblock’s editor
- fix: Improve error for missing (Translate)CustomTagBlock template #35829
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 | Next meeting: 30/07/2025. Last meeting notes → 2025-06-18 Partnership development Meeting |
| Build-Test-Release (BTR) | The Teak.1 branch was cut on June 26 with 96.9% test completion, thanks to strong community engagement and successful test-a-thons. Async check-ins and clearly labeled issues improved collaboration and onboarding. Key practices like toggle automation, structured testing, and issue transfer flows will be continued for future releases. Latest meeting notes → 2025-07-21 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 status of product subgroups was reviewed; several appear inactive and may be archived, while others remain active with regular meetings. New subgroups were proposed to align overlapping product proposals from multiple teams, especially around Catalog, Learning Paths, and Programs. An update to the Product Review Process was discussed, aiming for a more efficient structure without adding unnecessary recurring meetings.Last meeting notes → 2025-07-15 Core Product Meeting Notes |
| Data | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-05-07 Meeting notes |
| Deprecation | On June 26, 2025, the Cookie name change ticket was completed, and related middleware marked for deprecation. The Fast Track template is being updated; while automation isn’t in place yet, manual instructions are available to move items through. Board review included updates and check-ins on tickets pending review.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 group agreed to adopt Adam’s strategy of making frontend-build an optional peer dependency in frontend-platform, avoiding unintended installs in production bundles. A PR cleanup and documentation of three dev-dependency scenarios are underway, with Brian and Adam leading next steps. Reminder: Design Tokens launch is set for June 18, 2025, with coordinated merges and QA support planned. Last meeting notes → 2025-06-05 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes |
| Large Instances | Networking issues at eduNEXT were resolved by updating outdated AMIs; Picasso and other automation tools were discussed as collaboration opportunities. There was consensus on moving away from Discovery Service and aligning efforts on new solutions like Learner Pathways and Tutor-compatible tooling. Last meeting notes → Large Instances Meeting Notes 2025-07-08 |
| Learning Tools (LTI) | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-04-01 Meeting notes |
| Maintenance | Usama Sadiq proposed updating the requirements upgrade workflow so it can run on forks without requiring a GITHUB_TOKEN, enabling open source contributions. A discussion is needed with OpenCraft and others; currently, only the upgrade-one workflow runs without a token. No alternative solutions have been proposed yet. Permissions for the AppHelix team were also discussed—Jeremy will review replacing the arbi-bom team with AppHelix under the maintainers-at-large group. Last meeting notes → 2025-07-10 Meeting notes |
| Marketing | No current updates available. Last meeting notes →Agenda, May 21st, 2025 |
| Mobile | Zeitlabs will support code reviews and is pushing forward multi-tenant mobile features. The team plans to contribute mobile content to the Open edX developer onboarding course and update docs on XBlock support, offline use, and app publishing. RG is advancing an e-commerce solution using RevenueCat, aiming to integrate with eduNEXT APIs and avoid duplicating work. Last meeting notes →Agenda, July 18th, 2025 |
| Technical Oversight Committee | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → TOC Meeting Notes - 2025-05-14 |
| Translation | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-04-16 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 |
What events are coming up?
- Educause 2025: EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2025 - 4 Providers confirmed (Edly, Intela, Aulasneo, and DRC).
- 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?
- 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”).
Anything to add?
Share your thoughts in Slack (openedx.slack.com) or the comments below!
