Core Contributor News for Sprint: Sept 12th - Sept 25th, 2026
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?
Do you have a recent achievement, milestone, or something exciting to share? Celebrate it with the community! Drop your wins in the comments and let’s celebrate together.
Who needs help?
Need help with something or facing a challenge? Don’t hesitate to ask in the comments! Share what you’re working on, and let the community support you with ideas, guidance, or solutions.
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
- feat!: remove support for local CodeJail
- feat: update gitignore file
- feat: Requesting to add Course Passing Grade in the Admin Portal Learner Progress Report
- fix: include user-defined tokens as app token source
- fix: update secondary text color tokens
- chore: pin GitHub Actions workflows to full commit SHAs
- refactor: slash-and-burn Poll BuiltIn XBlock
- refactor: slash-and-burn Annotatable BuiltIn XBlock
- refactor: remove built-in LTI XBlock implementation (slash-n-burn #37819)
- refactor: remove built-in HTML XBlock implementation (slash-n-burn #37819)
Draft PRs: Require review and updates to move forward:
- feat: allow hiding question count on the course outline page
- perf(user_api): implement centralized caching for user preferences
- perf(grades): optimize database queries for large-scale grade recalcu…
- feat!: rm user db_constraint in CourseEnrollment
- perf: speed up the CCX grade report and fix its CSV output
- feat: support added to export content libraries to git (#38026)
- perf: bulk-prefetch grades in ProblemGradeReport and bound its per-learner caches
- fix: don’t scroll the page when toggling anchor-driven widgets
- fix: skip blocks with uninstalled XBlock types in item bank collect
- fix: apply user time zone to course start-date filters
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) | The BTR Working Group reviewed the Willow release cadence proposal and ongoing test automation efforts, with the team continuing to evaluate how automation could support a more flexible release model. The group also reviewed the current testing backlog, with 80 open release test failure reports (50 unassigned) and 24 open E2E findings, highlighting the need for prioritization and follow-up. Finally, the team discussed the updated Willow timeline, with the cut planned for January 2027 and the release tentatively expected in February 2027.Latest meeting notes → 2026-09-21 BTR Meeting Minutes |
| Governance WG | The Governance WG resumed discussions on feedback mechanisms and the Notifications Admin proposal. The group is evaluating different approaches for delivering release notes, including Discussions announcements, a shared Course Authoring course, and forums, while clarifying that the community rejected the proposed Authoring MFE architecture rather than the feature itself. Ali Hugo will follow up with Braden and identify a developer to scope the Notifications Admin and forums approaches. Last meeting notes → July 7 to Sep 21, 2026 — Open edX Governance WG |
| Core Product | The Product WG reviewed the Profile Avatar Modernization and Advanced Settings proposals, focusing on using community voting and feedback to decide which ideas should move forward. Marco will test community voting before the proposals advance to the next stage. Last meeting notes → 2026-09-22 Core Product Meeting Notes |
| Data | The Data WG reviewed the Aspects 5.0.0 release and new dashboard mockups for Willow, including Pathway, Competency, and Individual Learner dashboards. The group also received an overview of the Learner Activity Service product proposal and its current stage in the review process. Latest meeting notes → 2026-09-16 Meeting notes |
| Deprecation | No current updates available. 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. Last meeting notes → 2026-04-27 Educators |
| Frontend | The Frontend WG focused on the Composable Gradebook integration, using widgets and slots to embed Gradebook in the instructor dashboard while keeping it reusable. The group also discussed converting Learning into a widget-based architecture and the proposed XBlock React editors plugin, with concerns about long-term stability and the migration to frontend-base. Latest meeting notes → 2026-09-10 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes |
| Large Instances | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → Large Instances Meeting Notes 2026-09-02 |
| Maintenance | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-08-06 Meeting notes |
| Marketing | The August 19 agenda focused on AEO planning, award submissions, and market development activities for the remainder of 2026. The team will review and update the OptimizationTracker, refine the award submission strategy, and coordinate participation in key events including UNESCO Digital Learning Week, EDUCAUSE, the THE Arab Universities Summit, and the Global Digital Health Forum. The agenda also includes sponsorship planning for CBExchange and OEB Global, along with evaluating potential sponsorship opportunities at FICCI Higher Education Summit, Bengaluru Tech Summit, and DIDAC India. Latest meeting notes → Agenda, Aug 19th, 2026 |
| Mobile | No current updates available. Latest meeting notes → Agenda, 2026-01-30 |
| Technical Oversight Committee | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → TOC Meeting Notes - 2026-07-08 |
| 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”).
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