openedx / openedx/credentials

Product Discovery for supporting CHAPI to expand credential sharing options

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Description

CHAPI is a technology that aims to standardize the protocol for adding verified credentials to digital wallets. The objective of this issue is to develop a point of view on whether supporting CHAPI would allow the platform to access more wallets.

Some resources:

https://chapi.io/
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/credential-handler-api/
https://playground.chapi.io/

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the CHAPI overview, the W3C Credential Handler API specification, and the CHAPI playground linked in the issue. Then inspect the platform's existing credential-sharing and wallet integrations, if located, and document a point of view on whether CHAPI would provide access to more wallets.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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