Summer 2026 / Fall 2026 Work Prioritization

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• Refactor: Requests Controller Cleanup (Refactor RequestsController and delegate logic to RequestService #477 )
• Refactor: UserToCourse -> Enrollment rename (Refactor: Rename UserToCourse to Enrollment (Fable 5) #491)
• Merge in Rails 8.1 Upgrade #447
• Merge in Faultline Error Tracking #479
• Staging: Rails 8.1 + Faultline (Rails 8.1 Upgrade #447 Faultline Error Tracking #479 Consolidated Refactorings / Staging #481) -- Contains a merge of all recent work
• CS169L Part 1: (30) Lms id fix #396 LMS ID + other refactors, SP26 #1: LMS ID Refactor + Email Notifications Settings #487
• CS169L Part 2: SP26 #3: (38) Add student notes section to instructor view #394
• CS169L Part 3: SP26 #4: (47) Add late days column for extensions #392
• CS169L Part 4: SP26 #5: (89) Make sync enrollments and sync assignments async with Good_job gem and Added good_job gem dashboard permission control #390 / 2: #390 async GoodJob sync onto main #510
• CS169L Part 5: (95) All CS169L SP26 Work: Admin dashboard UI for good_job, blazer #404 / 3: #404 admin dashboard UI onto main #511

Other work:

• Rails 8.1
• Ruby 4.0 Upgrade Ruby to 4.0 and enable depreciation warnings in local, CI, and Elastic Beanstalk #516

Secondary priority:

• Enhanced Request#show page Improve Request#Show page for instructors with review information #455
• Split Course Settings Split Course Settings Into Multiple Pages #453

Improve Request Denial Communication:

• Request Denial Email Templates Improve the Request Rejection Flow (Custom Templates) #223
• Request Denial Reasons Rejected Requests should ask staff for a reason. #150
• Store Why Auto Approvals Failed #322
• Slack: Include an approve/deny link #155 [Is this better after User / Course API tokens #46

Integrations

• Support Pensieve #257
• Course API Tokens User / Course API tokens #46

Other Refactorings -- After all the 169L work is merged.

• Explicitly Store status_changed_at on a request #288
• Store release_date on assignment #213
• Refactor LMS Table #215
• Refactor: Remove !important from CSS files #482