Hi all! 
As you may know already, at Edly we are working on migrating the the good ol’ cs_comments_service forum application from Ruby to Python. You can learn all about this project in this announcement from a few months ago.
I’m happy to tell you that the migration is going smoothly, and we can expect to deliver it in time for Sumac. The team reached an important milestone by completing the migration of the Ruby code to Python 
The next milestones are going to be the migration of MongoDB data to MySQL, and the replacement of the HTTP REST API by a native Python API.
With this first milestone complete, it means that we can already run the Open edX forum without Ruby for the first time in the history of the universe 
You are strongly encouraged to try out the new app by following the README instructions: GitHub - edly-io/forum: Python rewrite of the legacy Open edX Ruby forum All the usual caveats apply: not ready for production yet, be ready to lose all your forum data, please report bugs to the repo issues.
I’m the one bearing the good news, but all of the work is being accomplished by @FarazM @Ali_Salman29 @Taimur_Ahmed. Let’s not congratulate these guys too quickly because the work is not complete yet, but they are doing an amazing job.