[edx-code] OEP announcements will now be going to https://discuss.openedx.org

Hi, I've just updated OEP-0001 , the process for writing Open edX Proposals. Authors used to send announcements of new OEPs and their reviews to this mailing list. Now the announcements will be made as posts in the Announcements

[edx-code] Announcements will soon be going to https://discuss.openedx.org

Hey all, As you may have heard, we have a Discourse forum set up at https://discuss.openedx.org . Our plan is to close these mailing lists, and use that forum instead. Announcements that used to come to this list will be posted in Discourse instead. Soon we'll be posting messages in this list

[edx-code] How to keep old releases installable?

Hawthorn doesn't currently install successfully. What does the community want to do about that? Discussion here: https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-keep-old-releases-installable/341 --Ned. -- ***Please note! This Google Group has been deprecated - visit https://discuss.openedx.org/ --- You

[edx-code] Join the new Open edX Discourse forum!

Our forum is live at https://discuss.openedx.org. Soon we will be retiring this mailing list and using Discourse instead. The forum will be a better place for long-form discussions, so we're really looking forward to people moving over there. Please introduce yourself in the Introductions

Re: [edx-code] How to host selective MooC courses on your own Edx Instance that are currently offered by Edx Site

The course on edX are not open-source. They are owned by the institutions that authored them. You would have to work out an arrangement with them, but as far as I know, they do not allow other sites to run their courses. Maybe I am wrong about that. Coursera courses are a completely different

Re: [edx-code] Problem install OpenEDX in Ubuntu 16.04

You didn't say what version you were installing. Using open-release/ironwood.master should work, there was a fix merged on July 2 for this problem. --Ned. On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 8:54 AM Cesar Augusto Palacios Alarcón < ceapalacio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Help, problem install OpenEDX in

[edx-code] Ironwood.2

the commit are below. --Ned. ./edx-platform e817202ebf 2019-06-03 Ned Batchelder: Django 1.11.21 783f84bb54 2019-05-24 Matthew Piatetsky: fix xss issue for all dashboard redirect messages 490ab07161 2019-05-21 Ned Batchelder: Fix CSSlint issues 0842a66da7 2019-05-15 Ned Batchelde

Re: [edx-code] New account creation verification email is not sent??? Please help

Please limit your question to one mailing list at a time. This seems like a question for the ops list. Thanks, --Ned. On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 4:25 AM kos giannop wrote: > Hi on Hawthorn.1 verification emails after new account registration are > not sent. SMTP is setup correctly and emails on

Re: [edx-code] Re: Ironwood.1 is here!

On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 9:08:49 PM UTC-3, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> >> Hey everyone, >> >> I am pleased to announce that Ironwood, the latest release of the Open >> edX software, is here. The release notes ( >> https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open

[edx-code] Re: Ironwood.1 is here!

BTW, Shelby Stack here at edX has recorded a 5-minute video detailing the new features in Ironwood: https://drive.google.com/file/d/168S-7U2bdAxns5OwcMNMoxROBoF3NmGF/view --Ned. On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ned Batchelder wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am pleased to announce that

[edx-code] Ironwood.1 is here!

Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce that Ironwood, the latest release of the Open edX software, is here. The release notes ( https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-release-notes/en/latest/ironwood.html) detail the features and changes in this release. As usual, if you need help with

[edx-code] Ironwood.1 RC4

Hi there, The last release candidate of Ironwood is available: *open-release/ironwood.1rc4*. Ironwood is the next release of Open edX, and it's important that everyone test it. I don't know of any changes that need to be made before Ironwood.1 is officially done. This release candidate adds a

Re: [openedx-ops] Re: [edx-code] Ironwood.1 RC2

Yup, the Ironwood Docker images are on Dockerhub now. --Ned. On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:05 AM Nate Aune wrote: > Hi Ned, > > Are there plans for getting Ironwood working on devstack for easier > testing on a local environment? > > Nate > > > > On Tue, Feb 26,

[edx-code] Ironwood.1 RC2

Hi there, The next release candidate of Ironwood is available: *open-release/ironwood.1rc2*. Ironwood is the next release of Open edX, and it's important that everyone test it. To install it on an Ubuntu 16.04 system, see the Native installation instructions

Re: [edx-code] Submit pull requests on xblock

Clarence, I'll get in touch off-list since this only affects edx.org sites. --Ned. On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:16 PM Clarence Ho wrote: > Hi. We have a new version (0.6.5) of ubcpi (https://github.com/ubc/ubcpi) > xblock. It fixes some bugs that were reported by users from edX Edge. > > In the

Re: [edx-code] Announcing Ironwood release candidate: Ironwood.1rc1 We need your help!

.1rc1 > ==== > Installation finished at 2019-02-05 14:53:37 > > ~ > > > > Thanks and regards > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:49 AM Ned Batchelder wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> &

[edx-code] Announcing Ironwood release candidate: Ironwood.1rc1 We need your help!

Hey everyone, I'm pleased to announce that we have a first release candidate for the next Open edX release: Ironwood.1rc1. To install it, use the tag open-release/ironwood.1rc1 Things to know: - We don't yet have release notes for Ironwood. We are in the process of pulling those

Re: [edx-code] Re: Ironwood is coming!

complaining of an unknown error. >> >> I checked out release/2.16.4 which is still using the old enrollment API >> and everything works without a problem. >> >> At this point, I cannot say master works with Hawthorn. >> >> On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 11:5

Re: [edx-code] Re: Ironwood is coming!

Oh, and one other thing: Why not tag the apps, and then let people decide for themselves if they want to use a tagged open-edx release, or if they want to use master? --Ned. On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:57 AM Ned Batchelder wrote: > J'aime, thanks for your perspective. I'm still try

Re: [edx-code] Re: Ironwood is coming!

named.releases. Anyways, please ignore my remark regarding this matter. >> Pierre has already elaborated his question and suggestion thoroughly. >> >> Best, L. >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:30 AM Ned Batchelder wrote: >> >>> Lupus, can you explain w

Re: [edx-code] Re: Ironwood is coming!

oncern Open edX only. > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:35 PM Ned Batchelder wrote: > >> Robert, >> >> I asked Marco Morales about this, and he said, "I'm not convinced it is >> all that helpful to pin or tag these specifically? We publicize named >> pl

Re: [edx-code] Re: Ironwood is coming!

>> >> Robert >> >> >> Le mardi 8 janvier 2019 15:52:52 UTC-5, Ned Batchelder a écrit : >> >>> Hey everyone, >>> >>> The next release of the Open edX software is "Ironwood." We are getting >>> ready to start the release

Re: [edx-code] Re: Ironwood is coming!

Robert, I believe we will be tagging them for Ironwood, yes. --Ned. On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:55 AM Robert Gérin-Lajoie < robert.gerinlaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ned, will you tag the mobile apps (iOS and Android) with Ironwood? > > Robert > > Le mardi 8 janvier 201

[edx-code] Ironwood is coming!

Hey everyone, The next release of the Open edX software is "Ironwood." We are getting ready to start the release process. The first step is creating the open-release/ironwood.master branches in the appropriate repos. I plan to do this on Friday, January 18th. Anything merged by that date will

Re: [edx-code] Problem with Hawthorn master install

I've just merged a fix from OpenCraft for this Ruby problem. open-release/hawthorn.master installs cleanly again. --Ned. On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:24 AM Roberto Castellanos wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to install Hawthorn in a clean ubuntu 16.04 server > installation, using as guide : > > >

[edx-code] Re: [openedx-ops] Looking for a partner to work on several projects

Please don't send messages to both mailing lists. Choose the one that is right for the message. TBH, this message is a bit commercial for either of these lists --Ned. On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 2:44 AM, Trinh Nguyen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the founder of *ED.LAB * which

[edx-code] Hawthorn.1 is here!

Open edX People, Hawthorn.1 is the first release on the "H" line of Open edX releases, and it is available now. The docs have been updated , including Hawthorn release notes .

Re: [edx-code] Re: course structure api removal from master (replaced by courses API)

The API docs were getting out of date because the complexity of building them from the edx-platform repo meant that they wouldn't build successfully any more. Perhaps too aggressively, we removed the ReadTheDocs projects rather than serve incorrect information. We're looking for a way to

[edx-code] Hawthorn update

Hey everyone, I know people have been wondering what's happening with Hawthorn, the next Open edX release. We had been waiting on the upgrade from Django 1.8 to Django 1.11. That is now done! But the new European Union law General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to take effect on May

Re: [edx-code] Re: how to update Open edX version keeping the changes ???

Hi, First, know that there are only very small changes between Ginkgo.1 and Ginkgo.2, so you probably will not have a problem. How to do this depends a lot on how you made changes. If you edited the Open edX source files directly, then you will have to carefully extract those changes as

[edx-code] Just a little bit about Hawthorn

The next Open edX release will be called Hawthorn. We don't have firm dates, but we expect to be able to create the master branches the week after next. Typically, finishing up the release take six weeks from that point. I won't try to list the features coming in Hawthorn (see previous product

[edx-code] Fwd: Django 1.11 Unit Tests on Jenkins

This is a change we have made to the continuous integration servers running on the edx/edx-platform repo. If you are making pull requests, you will see new tests being run against your changes. Just a friendly heads-up. This is in preparation for cutting over to Django 1.11 from Django 1.8,

Re: [edx-code] Re: how to do that?

Amira, for the benefit of others, it's best to start a new topic for each new problem. Put a short description in the subject. This will make it easier for people to find the discussions they need. Thanks, --Ned. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 2:14 PM, amira reda

Re: [edx-code] New version of open edX

The Hawthorn release is waiting for the upgrade from Django 1.8 to Django 1.11 to finish. That looks like it will be done in the next few weeks. Then we will start the packaging process for Hawthorn. In the past, finished releases have been ready about 4-6 weeks after the process starts. We

Re: [edx-code] Re: Announcing Open edX 2018: May 29–June 1 in Montréal

Any idea when call for > participation will come out? > > Thanks! >Julie > > > On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 2:49:02 PM UTC-4, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> >> https://open.edx.org/blog/announcing-open-edx-2018 >> >> Open edX people: >> >> I am excited to

[edx-code] Security announcements will no longer appear here

Hey all, We used to send all announcements of security fixes to the edx-code and openedx-ops lists. In an effort to simplify, we are now only sending those announcements to the openedx-announce list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openedx-announce If you have a concern about this

Re: [edx-code] Edx forum mixed content

Have you changed this setting? https://github.com/edx/ configuration/blob/master/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml#L133 --Ned. On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@edx.org> wrote: > Thanks for the report. I think it shouldn't be hard to fix that, I hope.

Re: [edx-code] Edx forum mixed content

Thanks for the report. I think it shouldn't be hard to fix that, I hope. --Ned. On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:24 AM, wrote: > We configured https for our instalation of Edx, but we have a problem with > the Forum, when we select "All Discussions" in LMS Forum, we get an

[edx-code] The future of Fullstack...?

Hi all, As you may or may not know, until now we have had three supported installation styles for our Open edX releases: 1. Devstack, a Vagrant-based installation for developers modifying code. 2. Fullstack, a Vagrant-based installation similar to a production install. 3. Native, an

[edx-code] Do you use edx-certificates? Can you take a look at these changes?

Stanford has made a number of changes to the edx-certificates code. We'd like to merge those changes, but we'd also like to get other opinions. If you use the certificates code, can you take a look at this pull request? https://github.com/edx/edx-certificates/pull/54 Thanks, --Ned. -- You

[edx-code] Joel Barciauskas

We’re sad to announce that Joel Barciauskas, Open Source Engineering Manager, will be leaving edX on August 29th. As the manager of the Open edX team, Joel has championed many community-centered initiatives and improvements here within edX. Joel organized the last two Open edX conferences: 2016

[edx-code] Ginko.1 is here!

Open edX People, Ginko.1 is the first release on the "G" line of Open edX releases, and it is available now. The docs have been updated , including Ginkgo release notes . Installation

[edx-code] Ficus.4

Hi Open edX Operators, Today we released an update to the Ficus line of the Open edX software. There are two reasons for this: 1) A security fix was made to prevent header poisoning of password reset emails. 2) Some database migrations were applied that will ease the transition to Ginkgo.

Re: [edx-code] Docker Devstack Beta

I am really excited to see the Docker Devstack work progressing. I'll just clarify: Docker Devstack is meant for developers working against the latest code on master of edx-platform and other repos. Ginkgo will *not* have Docker support: it will ship with a Vagrant-based devstack just as the

Re: [edx-code] Re: Error While Installing edX (Dogwood.2) on Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS

Please copy your entire install output to a paste site so that we can see all the details. Sometimes similar-looking errors are actually very different. Thanks, --Ned. On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 4:57 AM, Amine Roukh wrote: > I have the same issue with all ficus releases,

Re: [edx-code] Re: Error While Installing edX (Dogwood.2) on Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS

Can you put the entire installation log into a paste site? There may have been an earlier problem. --Ned. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Arnaud Deville wrote: > Same problem. Anyone can help us please ? > > On Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 12:36:35 PM UTC+1, Ifechi Okobi

Re: [edx-code] How to get xBlock deployed to edx.org? And how to do this fairly quickly to allow for development

You did the right thing by working through your partner support rep. I'm not sure what kind of turn-around time they aim for. --Ned. On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Robert M wrote: > > I am working on developing an xBlock for a course we have on edx.org. > > I got

[edx-code] Ficus.3: MathJax fix

Hi Open edXers, Today we released Ficus.3, the third release of the Ficus release line of Open edX. This release has an important fix for MathJax, and a few minor fixes, detailed in the release notes:

Re: [edx-code] TODO list for edx developers

New topics should be started in new threads, or people won't find them. --Ned. On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:01 AM, drcsystem android < drcsystem.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Andy, > > I have used open EDX android code from https://github.com/edx/edx- > app-android and i have modified UI and

Re: [edx-code] adding python packages to edx conda

ednesday, April 19, 2017 at 10:33:22 AM UTC-4, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> >> It's not that Open edX support conda requirements files. When you write >> your XBlock, you will have a setup.py, and you can put whatever Python >> packages you want in the install_requires

Re: [edx-code] adding python packages to edx conda

ports use of conda > requirement files, rather brave. Do you need to put the file in specific > location? I likely will try using to install a package that includes it, > maybe skvideo.io > > On Apr 18, 2017 12:41 PM, "Ned Batchelder" <n...@edx.org> wrote: > &

Re: [edx-code] using Linux executables from xBlock

Robert, You can use any Python you like in your XBlock. You have to be careful not to depend on something that might not be present, or might change. I'm curious about using an audio processing toolkit from an XBlock. What are you envisioning? --Ned. On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Robert M

Re: [edx-code] adding python packages to edx conda

Robert, Typically, you wouldn't try to include other packages in your XBlock, you would list them as requirements. They would get installed (if needed) when your XBlock was installed. What packages do you need? --Ned. On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Robert M wrote: >

[edx-code] Minor release: Ficus.2

Hi Open edXers, Today we released Ficus.2, the second release of the Ficus release line of Open edX. This release has only a few minor fixes, detailed in the release notes: http://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-release-notes/en/latest/ficus.html#march-2017-ficus-2 : - If you used the

Re: [edx-code] Re: (eucalyptus-devstack) - vagrant up - The SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status

You haven't provided the log with the failure in it. Windows is going to be very difficult. --Ned. On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Kapil Tyagi wrote: > Hi Ned, > > Please help me on this issue. > > Thanks, > Kapil > > On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 5:05:06 PM UTC+5:30,

Re: [edx-code] How to identify the Open Edx version (without any server access)

Yves, there isn't a simple marker, because everyone can customize the source, so many sites will not be exactly one of the Open edX releases. If you look on Transifex, you can see resources specific to the recent Open edX releases: https://www.transifex.com/open-edx/open-edx-releases/content/

Re: [edx-code] Does anyone know how to access edx BerkeleyX's Stat2 course as its showing Enrollment is closed.

You'll need to contact the support people for the site. This mailing list is for people running their own Open edX instances. --Ned. On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:28 AM, wrote: > Does anyone know how to access edx BerkeleyX's Stat2 course as its showing > Enrollment is

Re: [edx-code] XBlock and RESTful architecture

ick reply Ned, however i found this wiki > <https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/RESTful-course-and-xblock-API>that > seems to talk about a RESTful XBlocks but i couldn't get a proper idea > about it > > Le lundi 27 février 2017 23:23:23 UTC+1, Ned Batchelder a écrit : &

Re: [edx-code] XBlock and RESTful architecture

Currently, XBlock is only an in-process Python API. We've long wanted to make them remotable, so that an XBlock could execute on another machine, or in another language, or in another security context. But that hasn't been built yet. --Ned. On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:53 PM, chemseddine zaafrane

[edx-code] Ficus.1 is here!

Everyone, I am very pleased to announce the availability of the first official Ficus release: Ficus.1 Ficus is the first Open edX release to run on Ubuntu 16.04. Installation options are here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OpenOPS/Open+edX+Installation+Options. Because of the switch

[edx-code] Ficus 1 RC4

Everyone, The next Ficus test release is available: open-release/ficus.1rc4 . This may become the true Ficus release, depending on what reports we get from the community in the next few days. Please try this on *test systems* and let us know what you find. Ficus is the first Open edX release

Re: [edx-code] CMS and LMS

Currently, that is how courses created in Studio are served by the LMS. A longer-term solution is to author in one place and then publish to another place, but that isn't implemented yet. --Ned. On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:41 AM, chemseddine zaafrane < chemseddine.zaafr...@gmail.com> wrote: > i

[edx-code] Ficus 1 RC3

Everyone, The next Ficus test release is available: open-release/ficus.1rc3 . (If you have been following closely, you will note that we skipped rc2). This is *not for production*! This release is based on the edx.org code of January 10th, which will be the basis for Ficus. Some release

Re: [edx-code] how to enable https secure on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (about open edx!!)

This is a question about operating an Open edX instance, so it will get a better answer on openedx-ops: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openedx-ops Thanks, --Ned. On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:59 AM, dim kar wrote: > I would like to enable prefix of "*https*" secure

Re: [edx-code] upgrading from dogwood to Eucalyptus in production

You might get a better response to operations questions on the openedx-ops list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openedx-ops --Ned. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:15 PM, mk325 wrote: > hi guys, > we are planning to upgrade from Dogwood to Eucalyptus in the

Re: [edx-code] Open Edx installation on Window 10

Open edX is only supported on Ubuntu. You can install on Windows using Virtualbox (or other virtualization). In the past, devstack has not worked because Virtualbox shared filesystems didn't support symlinks properly. A native install in Virtualbox might work? --Ned. On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at

Re: [edx-code] Re: Open edX Remote Meetup: Thursday Dec 8th, 15:00 UTC

/15dREacAAcvSjvLIvRCL1IeOW894xYV06VSk0brV0AyU/edit?usp=sharing The concurrent Slack conversation: https://openedx.slack.com/archives/remotemeetup/p148120876802 The next event is January 26th, see you then. --Ned. On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@edx.org> wrote: > Just a reminder: the remo

Re: [edx-code] from __future__ import unicode_literals

This is an interesting idea, and deserves more discussion before opening a PR :) --Ned. On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Omar Al-Ithawi wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > We've had a discussion in the Slack group (link > ),

Re: [edx-code] Re: sudo su edxapp not working

Please double-check that you are dealing with a devstack installation. You shouldn't have to override the shell if the installation was successful. If your devstack doesn't let you change the user, then check the installation logs to find out what failed. If you have a fullstack installation,

Re: [edx-code] Re: Using edx Devstack edxapp does not work

If "sudo su edxapp" doesn't switch the user on a devstack, then the installation didn't complete properly. Check the logs from your installation to see if there was a problem. --Ned. On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Mayuri Karnik wrote: > sudo su edxapp -s /bin/bash

[edx-code] Open edX release: Eucalyptus.2

Fellow Open edXers: We've released a few bug fixes for Eucalyptus, as Eucalyptus.2. The tag name is *open-release/eucalyptus.2*, usable with the usual installation methods. A summary of the fixes are below. If you need help at any point, see the Getting Help

Re: [edx-code] 6.002 and 6.004

Christopher, Sorry, but this list is about the software that powers edx.org. We won't know the answers to your questions. You should try asking at http://support.edx.org --Ned. On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Christopher Schell wrote: > Hello all, > > I am interested

[edx-code] Eucalyptus is here!

Fellow Open edXers: I'm pleased to announce that the fifth Open edX release is now available: Eucalyptus.1 is the first release on the Eucalyptus line. The blog post summarizes the new features. The install instructions

Re: [edx-code] Re: Commercial Offering using OpenEDX

te members with monthly > subscription etc.. There is no restriction how you run your business or the > business model you choose. Is this understanding correct? Please advise. > Thanks! > > Best, > Wenting > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@edx.org>