[DEPR]: Legacy Unit Editor

[kdmccormick]

Proposal Date

2025-02-19

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2025-03-05

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Deprecated but available (via opt-out) in Teak. Will be missing new Content Libraries features.

Full removal on 2024-09-08, landing in Ulmo.

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

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1. [DEPR]: Legacy Text Editor #34692
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2. [DEPR]: Legacy Video Editor #35257
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3. [DEPR]: Legacy Problem Editor #36261
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Replacement

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

[ NEED: SCREENSHOTS ]

[ NEED: CODE LINKS ]

Deprecation

TBD

Migration

TBD

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

Additional Info

No response

Task List

TBD

[kdmccormick]

I plan on officially Communicating this DEPR and its child DEPRs soon. In the meantime, see #proj-studio-mfe in Slack for the latest.