[DEPR]: Logged-out Studio Landing Page #36269
Description
Please first read the parent DEPR ticket, [DEPR]: All Legacy Studio Frontends.
RFC Start Date
2025-02-19
Target Plan Accepted Date
2025-03-14
Target Transition Unblocked Date
2025-05-14
Target Breaking Changes Unblocked Date
2025-09-14
Earliest Open edX Named Release With Breaking Changes
Ulmo - 2025-10
Rationale
The logged-out Studio landing page (knows in the code as "howitworks") is one of the last remaining legacy Studio frontends. You can access it by going to the base URL of CMS (for example: https://studio.sumac.openedx.io/) while unauthenticated:
In order to complete the 9-year-running replatforming of Studio into ReactJS, we need to remove all legacy Django-rendered Studio pages. We welcome a community-built replacement for this page using Paragon and ReactJS in frontend-app-authoring; however, whether or not it is not replaced, we will need to remove the legacy page by September 2025.
Removal
The page and all associated Django views, routes, templates, and resources will be removed.
The legacy_studio.logged_out_home Waffle flag will be removed.
Replacement
All routes which once resolved to the landing page will now simply resolve to the sign-in page; after signing in, users will be directed to the logged-in Studio home.
Deprecation
We will ensure that the deprecation is noted in the Ulmo release notes. No code-level deprecation warnings will be raised.
Migration
No migration is needed.
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