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edx-platform/lms/djangoapps/certificates
Matt Tuchfarber d53d8e45a5 refactor: Merge the openedx certs app with lms one (#28435)
* refactor: Merge the openedx certs app with lms one

Move the certs API from openedx into the lms certificates app.
Functionally, this is a no-op. Cleanup will happen in a subsequent
commit. This is simply a move.
2021-08-11 10:25:55 -04:00
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2021-07-19 14:48:08 -04:00

Status: Maintenance

Responsibilities
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The Certificates app is responsible for creating and managing course run certificates, including relevant data models for invalidating certificates and managing the allowlist.

Direction: Move and Extract
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Certificates related functionality is scattered across a number of places and should be better consolidated. Today we have:

* ``lms/djangoapps/certificates``
* ``openedx/core/djangoapps/certificates``
* ``cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/certificates.py``
* Various front-end static templates in multiple locations

Ideally, we want to extract these into the `credentials service`_, which would be ultimately responsible for Course-Run and Program certificates (and possibly other credentials). Right now, the `credentials service`_ only manages Program certificates.

.. _credentials service: https://github.com/edx/credentials

Glossary
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