[DEPR]: Legacy Unit Editor

[kdmccormick]

Proposal Date

2024-08-08

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2024-09-01

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Teak - 2025-04

Rationale

Maintaining the legacy unit page and the React-based unit page in tandem is a major burden for maintenance and feature development.

Removal

We will remove the legacy Django-rendered Studio unit editor defined in edx-platform.

[ NEED: SCREENSHOTS ]

[ NEED: CODE LINKS ]

However, before removing the legacy unit editor, we must first remove the three big legacy component editors. That is because the legacy editors do not work in the new unit editor.

Removal Blockers

Beta Give feedback

1. [DEPR]: Legacy Text Editor #34692
   depr +1
   
2. [DEPR]: Legacy Video Editor #35257
   depr +1
   
3. [DEPR]: Legacy Problem Editor #35256
   depr +1
   

Replacement

The new React-based Studio unit editor in frontend-app-course-authoring is currently in development by RaccoonGang.

[ NEED: SCREENSHOTS ]

[ NEED: CODE LINKS ]

We are aiming to have this available in Sumac. However, the replacement's viability depends on the successful implementation of the XBlock preview rendering, as discussed in the Rendering Summit: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FEDX/pages/4366663684/XBlock+Rendering+Summit+Part+1+2024-08-07

Deprecation

We will warn about the pending deprecation in the Sumac release notes.

Migration

TBD

(We expect that the only required migration will be theming-related)

Additional Info

No response

Task List

TBD