[DEPR]: discussions.pages_and_resources_mfe waffle flag

[ormsbee]

Proposal Date

2024-08-08

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2024-08-22

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Sumac

Rationale

The target removal date was 2021-12-31, and this flag no longer really works in the sense that if you're in the MFE experience for Studio, you still get the new Pages and Resources UI regardless of the value of this flag.

Removal

CourseWaffleFlag "to enable new Pages and Resources experience for course".

edx-platform/openedx/core/djangoapps/discussions/config/waffle.py

Lines 23 to 34 in e7dbc48

	# .. toggle_name: discussions.pages_and_resources_mfe
	# .. toggle_implementation: CourseWaffleFlag
	# .. toggle_default: False
	# .. toggle_description: Waffle flag to enable new Pages and Resources experience for course.
	# .. toggle_use_cases: temporary, open_edx
	# .. toggle_creation_date: 2021-05-24
	# .. toggle_target_removal_date: 2021-12-31
	# .. toggle_warning: When the flag is ON, the new experience for Pages and Resources will be enabled.
	# .. toggle_tickets: TNL-7791
	ENABLE_PAGES_AND_RESOURCES_MICROFRONTEND = CourseWaffleFlag(
	f"{WAFFLE_FLAG_NAMESPACE}.pages_and_resources_mfe", __name__
	)

Replacement

No replacement–the MFE will always be enabled.

Deprecation

No response

Migration

No response

Additional Info

No response

Task List

No response

[pdpinch]

We just stumbled onto a bug where the workaround was to temporarily turn off this waffle flag. I'd appreciate keeping the flag available until the bug is fixed or there is another, well-documented workaround.

I'll update this comment with a link to the bug once I've opened an issue.

[feanil]

@pdpinch did you file that bug somewhere? can you link it here?

[pdpinch]

Sorry about not getting back to this.

Here's the issue: #35509

It's very similar to another one for the discussion tab, which has a PR to fix it: #35431