Core Contributor News for Sprint: Jun 7th - June 20th, 2025
This sprint brought a mix of experiences. 43% of participants rated their experience as good or great, while 57% faced some challenges or felt neutral about it.
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.
If you’ve achieved something recently—big or small—that you’re proud of, don’t hesitate to share it in the comments! We’d love to celebrate your wins and keep everyone in the loop.
Who needs help?
- We could use a review of this PR: fix: link reruns & clones to correct orgs by asadali145 · Pull Request #36860 · openedx/edx-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
- It will be nice to have more support, but I understand that everyone is busy and things don’t happen overnight. We will keep telling about it and hopefully have more people engaged with this program.
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:
- chore: Remove usage of deprecated
assertDictContainsSubsetunittest method. - fix: cohorts api permissions
- 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
- fix: use a single ‘provider_type’ key for storing discussion provider type in course
- fix: course outline not found issue for ccx courses
- fix: visual and progress score display enhancement
- fix: handle missing discussion settings when importing old courses
- fix: Remove horizontal scroll on instructor page in RTL version
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 | The June 18 Open edX WG-BizDev meeting brought together global community members to explore the Vorkis/Unibot integration by Intela, focused on skill-based learning and job market alignment. Key updates were shared across global RFPs, partnerships, revenue growth, and market expansion. Participants were encouraged to review the agenda, bring ideas, and help shape the platform’s future impact. → 2025-06-18 Partnership development Meeting |
| Build-Test-Release (BTR) | The Teak release is nearing completion with 96.6% of tests done and a few outstanding issues under review. Key blockers include a CORS error and a high-priority course access bug, while most other concerns are either resolved or in progress. The team must now decide whether to proceed with the release as-is or resolve the remaining CORS issue before moving forward. Latest meeting notes → 2025-06-16 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. Jorge will update the charter and share guidelines to support this shift. The team also discussed addressing stalled pull requests by encouraging contributors to take ownership of unmaintained code areas. Last meeting notes → 2025-05-13 CC Working Group Meeting Notes |
| Core Product | The team conducted board triage and reviewed the updated User Group proposal presented by @Chelsea Rathbun. @Edward Byun introduced a new AI Integrations/Extensions subgroup to foster community collaboration on AI-related initiatives. Contributors were encouraged to ping #wg-product-core for support with ticket coordination. Latest meeting notes → 2025-06-17 Core Product Meeting Notes |
| Data | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-05-07 Meeting notes |
| Deprecation | On June 12, updates to the DEPR process were discussed, including new fields like ‘review after’ dates and a streamlined path for minor breaking changes. @Feanil Patel will announce the changes to the community to ensure alignment moving forward. The group also addressed the Proctortrack plugin’s removal from default installs and the possibility of bringing it into the Open edX org, pending licensing and contribution terms. Latest 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 | In the meeting, Felipe addressed enrollment data mismatches and shared updates on hosting tasks and the Tutor Deck plugin, suggesting potential admin console integrations. He also introduced Casbin as a possible replacement for Bridgekeeper, citing better support but noting performance concerns. Braden shared progress on OpenCraft projects, including Grove’s overhaul, Harmony deployment improvements, and conference preparations. Last meeting notes → Large Instances Meeting Notes 2025-05-27 |
| Learning Tools (LTI) | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2025-04-01 Meeting notes |
| Maintenance | Following the conference, the team will evaluate a Node.js upgrade (v22 vs. v24), with @Peter Kulko leading MFE testing. A simplified process for handling minor breaking changes is being explored, possibly through a “breaking change notice” ticket type instead of full DEPR. Additional discussions covered Python 3.12 timing, Cypress access limitations, and the future of WooCommerce vs. legacy e-commerce testing. Latest meeting notes → 2025-06-12 Meeting notes |
| Marketing | Upcoming events include the Open edX Virtual Meetup on Blockchain Credentials and AI-Powered Proctoring Open edX Virtual Meetup: Blockchain Credentials & AI-Powered Proctoring, and Learntec Europe 2026 with Nicole gathering booth info. On May 28th, there’s a G2M presentation Part 2, while efforts continue to secure additional sponsors for the Open edX Conference. Marketing subgroup updates and OKRs are also under review. Last meeting notes →Agenda, May 21st, 2025 |
| Mobile | The meeting highlighted progress on the Course Content/Progress reviewer project, with calls for community reviewers and 2U onboarding support. Discussions on mobile adoption included feature differentiation, app store visibility, and a push to raise usage from <5% to 50%. Updates also touched on API limitations, a new AI product subgroup, and interest in future discussions on build tools and Zeit Labs. Latest meeting notes →Agenda, June 20th, 2025 |
| Technical Oversight Committee | New committee members Shreshtha Gupta (CTO of NSDC, India) and Aref Matin (CTO at 2U). Key announcements included Pearson’s course content translation proposal, discussions on current translation approaches, and upcoming events like the Open edX Conference and a grant opportunity for AI features in Studio. Shreshtha presented NSDC’s digital skilling ecosystem in India, highlighting the Skill India Digital Hub built on Open edX with features like blockchain credentials and job aggregation. Jenna Makowski and Dave Ormsbee outlined plans to revamp Open edX’s role-based access control system to improve security and flexibility through granular, stackable permissions. Next steps include sharing presentations, gathering community feedback on translation proposals, and exploring KeyCloak integration for RBAC. 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. Latest meeting notes →2025-06-12 - UX/UI Working Group Meeting |
What events are coming up?
- 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).
- 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!