Meaning of "tutor-supported" topic on MFEs

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I see that GitHub - openedx/frontend-app-catalog has the tutor-supported topic but isn’t included by default with either main or ulmo. My original assumption was that tutor-supported meant “included by default”. However, GitHub - openedx/frontend-app-admin-console: Administrator console for the Open edX application doesn’t have that topic but is installed by default with tutor-main and ulmo.

Given that I could also create an MFE and add it to my tutor using equivalent instructions to what @brian.smith just merged, can someone help me understand what that topic means? Or would that just mean I could also put a tutor-supported topic on my repo?

Thanks!

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as far as I’m aware the catalog mfe is still under development and isn’t yet ready to be included by default

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The tutor-supported topic is supposed to mean: “an official Tutor plugin that can be used to deploy the repo’s frontend app either exists, is being developed, or is planned.” It doesn’t mean it will be included by default in a Tutor release, however.

The topic was created to distinguish between apps that the community definitely wants to support (the ones whose repos have the topic) from apps that the community’s either on-the-fence about or just hasn’t gotten around to deprecating/archiving yet.

Catalog: the plugin doesn’t “exist” yet, but a PR to add it to tutor-mfe does. The plan is to include it by default in Verawood.

Admin Console: We just missed adding the topic. Just fixed it, though, and thanks for spotting it! :slight_smile:

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