Update or replace django-nose

[Jawayria]

We use the package django-nose in edx/ubcpi, edx/xblock-in-video-quiz. It hasn't yet added support for Django3.2. Please follow the guidance in https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/3036972032/Handling+Outdated+Dependencies to resolve the problem this poses for the Open edX Django 3.2 upgrade.

[ghassanmas]

I have just asked the orignal author for the repo, about how to move forward in order to upgarde it.
Also for context worth qouting from the repo Readme.md

nose has been in maintenance mode since at least 2015. django-nose is in maintenance mode as well, and the sole maintainer is no longer an active user. See Jazzband.co to learn how django-nose is maintained and how you can help. New projects should consider using pytest, or unittest with the Django testing framework.

[jmbowman]

Yeah, I'm surprised there's still any usage of this; I thought we had it all replaced with pytest already. I'm still figuring out if we can deprecate our ubcpi fork, do you have any interest in porting xblock-in-video-quiz over to use pytest instead? There are a few Jira tickets explaining how to do this for other repos.

[ghassanmas]

@jmbowman I am currently in the process of migrating to pytest. The eample you sent seems helpful and relevant!.
Just one note, to be clear there doesn't seems to be tests in the repo xblock-in-video-quiz right?, or am I missing somehting...

[awais786]

@natabene you can close this. Its completed.

[ghassanmas]

edx/ubcpi still uses django-nose as it appears here: https://github.com/edx/ubcpi/blob/29f066d2397383297312cb49eb62718fe0514d99/requirements/test.txt#L6 .

[natabene]

@awais786 What do you think regarding the last comment?

[awais786]

I only checked xblock-in-video-quiz and it was done, but edx/ubcpi need updation.
@ghassanmas needs similar PR in edx/ubcpi also.

https://github.com/edx/ubcpi/blob/29f066d2397383297312cb49eb62718fe0514d99/settings/test.py#L34

[ghassanmas]

Alright, here is an update:

edx/ubcpi depends on edx/edx-submissions, now edx-submissions is in itself dones't seem upgrade.add to that, that to be able to text ubcpi on Django 3.2, we need to make sure edx-submissions is in itself compitable with 3.2, and for that to happen we first need to close #35 and #14 since both aim at making edx-submissions compitable with 3.2.

Summary: #35 and #14 are blockers to close this

[UsamaSadiq]

@ghassanmas an update for edx/edx-submissions, edx-submissions==3.3.0 has already added Django 3.2 support in it.

[UsamaSadiq]

@ghassanmas both #35 and #14 have been closed now with Django 3.2 support. Please let me know if we can now continue working on edx/ubcpi upgrade since the blockers have been resolved now.
Thanks.

[UsamaSadiq]

edx/ubcpi has now been archived since the upstream repo is being used now in edX.
@ghassanmas thanks for your efforts on this. I'll close this issue now since it has been completed.