[DEPR]: Remove waffle flag ENABLE_GLOBAL_STAFF_OPTIMIZATION

[pdpinch]

Proposal Date

2024-10-15

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2025-01-08

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Teak - 2025-04

Rationale

This waffle flag enables an optimization in the legacy Studio course list view that more efficiently loaded a very long list of courses. Typically, this only made a difference on deployments where users were staff on a very large number of courses, for example edx.org.

The flag does not function in the new studio (aka course authoring) MFE. In that context, loading a large list of courses is optimized by default.

Removal

We don't plan to test this flag in the Sumac release, since it would require reverting to the legacy studio interface.

After Sumac, the code for the flag can be removed. A naive search for the flag turns up just 4 locations, including 2 tests.

Replacement

The functionality has already been replaced in the current APIs used with the Studio MFE.

Deprecation

No response

Migration

No response

Additional Info

No response

Task List

No response

Announcement

https://discuss.openedx.org/t/deprecation-removal-waffle-flag-enable-global-staff-optimization/14693

[jristau1984]

Already discussed in T&L: https://twou.slack.com/archives/C04BHDFQMDK/p1729090844945349

[pdpinch]

I don't think I have access to twou.slack.com links. What was the outcome of the discussion?

[pdpinch]

This DEPR was announced in https://discuss.openedx.org/t/deprecation-removal-waffle-flag-enable-global-staff-optimization/14693. There were no comments during the feedback period.

[jristau1984]

Apologies @pdpinch I missed your follow up question from before. That discussion came to the conclusion there would be no impact. I did not mean to include the twou slack link in the public ticket.

[pdpinch]

The deprecated code has been removed.