[DEPR]: Remove CONTENT_GROUPS_FOR_TEAMS Waffle Flag

[BryanttV]

Proposal Date

2025-02-26

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2025-03-12

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Teak - 2025-04

Rationale

The CONTENT_GROUPS_FOR_TEAMS Waffle Flag has a target removal for Teak. After the removal, the connection of teams with content groups will be always available for the course authors.

Removal

Before proceeding with the removal of the Waffle Flag it’s necessary to solve some bugs related to the functionality:

• Creating a new group restores previous configurations on the units (teams - content groups) edx-platform#36307
• Enabling content groups for teams breaks the content groups functionality (teams - content groups) frontend-app-authoring#1698

After fixing the bugs, to completely remove the Waffle Flag in edx-platform it’s necessary:

• Remove the Waffle Flag definition from the teams_config.py file.
• Remove the Waffle Flag usage from team_partition_schema.py, utils.py, team_partition_groups.py and course_metadata.py files.
• Remove the Waffle Flag from the tests in the test_partition_schema.py, test_course_settings.py, and test_outline.py files.

Replacement

No replacement

Deprecation

No response

Migration

No response

Additional Info

• PR with original implementation: feat: connect teams with content groups using dynamic partition generator edx-platform#33788
• GitHub Discussion: feat: connect teams with content groups using dynamic partition generator edx-platform#33788 (comment)

Task List

• Fix Creating a new group restores previous configurations on the units (teams - content groups) edx-platform#36307
• Fix Enabling content groups for teams breaks the content groups functionality (teams - content groups) frontend-app-authoring#1698
• feat: remove CONTENT_GROUPS_FOR_TEAMS waffle flag edx-platform#36290 [WIP]

[BryanttV]

Hi, @mariajgrimaldi and @kdmccormick. Could you check this proposal?