Core Contributor News for Sprint: Jun 5th - Jun 19th, 2026
This sprint brought mostly positive experiences. 38% of participants rated their experience as good or great, while 62% reported a neutral experience or faced some challenges.
What are we celebrating?
- Translations, translation automation and Teak cut-off prep.
- Yes, we are launching the Distinguished Contributor Program and I feel good because I want everyone to be aware of all the great contributions and impact that community is making for Open edX platform and ecosystem.
Who needs help?
- We could use a review of this PR: fix: link reruns & clones to correct orgs by asadali145 · Pull Request #36860 · openedx/openedx-platform · GitHub
- It seems like something to do with the django upgrade upset the storage location of transcripts: Transcripts missing error on v3.0.0 · Issue #590 · openedx/edx-val · GitHub
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!
Stuck waiting for review
- build: update release workflow to create PR with release changes
- feat: add hasUnmetPrerequisitesList in CoursewareAccessSerializer
- feat: Validate country input during student registration
- feat: add script to update from main
- docs(decisions): add ADR for api endpoint for user exam due dates
- feat: convert ProgressBar component to TypeScript
- fix: prefetch video_image when getting a video
- feat: add vector aggregator
- feat: introduce send_on_commit and send_async helpers in send_event()
- [BB-10699] Add configurable Qualtrics query params
Draft PRs: Require review and updates to move forward:
- feat!: upgrade to mathjax v3
- feat: [FC-0044] Unit page - manage tags xblocks
- [WIP] refactor: change lang selector logic
- fix: CardImageCup stretches image on Safari
- docs: migrate to scriv to manage changelog
- feat: [FC-0047] Implement offline content generation:
- feat: add GTM integration
- feat: add GTM integration
- [POC] feat: add support for divided discussions with user groups
- docs: add arch decision record for the migration path for legacy user grouping mechanisms
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 | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-04-02 Partnership development Meeting |
| Build-Test-Release (BTR) | Throughout June 2026, the (BTR) Working Group focused on preparing the Verawood release, confirming the June 23 target while driving testing efforts, coordinating Testathons, and tracking release blockers. Test coverage steadily increased from less than 1% to 95.6%, with the team prioritizing bug triage, documentation, and release-critical fixes. As the release approached, the group adopted a strict Go/No-Go process, agreeing that Verawood would only ship once test completion exceeded 80% and all release blockers were resolved. Although the testing goal was achieved, the release was postponed to allow remaining blockers to be addressed and retested. In parallel, the working group launched an initiative to improve long-term quality by creating a dedicated end-to-end (E2E) testing repository, laying the groundwork for automated Playwright-based testing in future Open edX releases. Latest meeting notes → 2026-29-06 BTR Meeting Minutes |
| Governance WG | During this period, the Contributions Review Spring Cleaning Hackathon continued to gain momentum, doubling participation from 9 to 18 contributors and expanding its review scope. The initiative successfully reduced the OSPR backlog, increasing the number of closed stale PRs while maintaining active review of remaining contributions. With the hackathon approaching its end, the focus remained on clearing outstanding PRs and encouraging broader community participation. Last meeting notes → June 8 to June 22, 2026 — Open edX Governance WG |
| Core Product | The meeting reviewed feedback on the Competency-Based Education (CBE) Rubrics Product Requirements Document, refining requirements and addressing community comments. The group also discussed Mobile Inbox Milestone 1, aligning the original proposal with the new web inbox capabilities before completing the remaining scope. Overall, the focus was on ensuring consistency between web and mobile experiences while advancing key product initiatives. Latest meeting notes → 2026-06-30 Core Product Meeting Notes |
| Data | No current updates available. Next meeting 07-22-2026. Last meeting notes → 2026-04-08 Meeting notes |
| Deprecation | The meeting reviewed the deprecation of legacy features for the Willow release, including v1 libraries, legacy Studio templates, and the Instructor Dashboard, with most modernization work already completed. The main remaining gap is CCX compatibility for the new Instructor Dashboard, while operators are encouraged to prepare for upcoming changes such as the removal of legacy templates and the transition to uv. The group also discussed meeting scheduling and confirmed that the related deprecation work is being tracked through existing DEPR tickets. Last meeting notes → DEPR Meetings Notes (2026) |
| Documentation | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-02-04 Docs WG |
| Educators | No current updates available. Latest meeting notes → 2026-04-27 Educators |
| Frontend | The meeting focused on preparing the frontend-base 1.0 release while supporting Verawood testing efforts and discussing strategies to reduce manual testing through automation. The group explored Playwright vs. Cypress for end-to-end testing, agreeing to prioritize automation that simplifies the BTR process before full CI integration. They also confirmed the frontend-base release strategy, maintaining a stable 1.x branch while continuing development on main with alpha prereleases. Latest meeting notes → 2026-06-18 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes |
| Large Instances | The Kubernetes & Large/Multi Instances DevOps meeting focused on infrastructure improvements for Open edX deployments, including Traefik adoption as an ingress replacement, ongoing frontend-base and Pixie (next-generation XBlock) developments, and operational enhancements such as CDN integration and Verawood testing. Participants also discussed simplifying MFE deployments with Helm charts, improving Tutor support, and the importance of a stabilization period after releases to focus on bug fixes before introducing new features. Latest meeting notes → Large Instances Meeting Notes 2026-06-23 |
| Maintenance | The Maintenance Working Group reviewed progress on the Repo Health Dashboard, ongoing Python modernization, and the openedx-platform on-call process. The group also discussed improving linting while maintaining pylint for advanced checks, noted that 2U is now running openedx-platform on containers, and explored whether more frequent releases could help reduce deployment risks for large-scale adopters. Latest meeting notes → 2026-06-25 Meeting notes |
| Marketing | The BizDev Working Group reviewed community engagement following the Open edX Conference, noting that while the lead flow issue has been resolved, overall prospect volume remains lower than expected. The group also discussed launching a new LLM Optimization working group, planning conference participation for late 2026 and early 2027, and advancing initiatives around website improvements, newsletters, and new customer case studies to strengthen community outreach and business development. Last meeting notes → Agenda, Jun 16th, 2026 |
| Mobile | No current updates available. Latest meeting notes → Agenda, 2026-01-30 |
| Technical Oversight Committee | The session covered major updates including AI experimentation, plugin-based architecture improvements, and the universal mobile app proposal, highlighting a shift toward a more modular and scalable Open edX ecosystem. A strong focus was placed on AI-assisted code contributions, emphasizing human review, transparency, and the potential of AI to reduce technical debt and accelerate development. Strategic discussions also explored frontend-base migration, customization challenges, and a university-focused LMS distribution, positioning Open edX as a flexible platform to capture new global market opportunities. Latest meeting notes → TOC Meeting Notes - 2026-03-11 |
| Translation | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-03-18 Translation WG Meeting |
| Design | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-03-18 - Design Working Group Meeting |
What events are coming up?
- 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!