Add a mention of how to link to a change record in a @deprecated tag

Created on 18 January 2021, over 4 years ago
Updated 18 February 2025, 3 months ago

Problem/Motivation

https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/standards/api-documentation-and-comm... doesn't say whether a @deprecated tag should or may include a link to a change record on drupal.org.

This means that most of core seems to link to the CR in a separate @see. The problem with doing this is that api.d.org shows that in the separate 'See also' section, and it's not clear to the reader that this URL is more information specifically about the deprecation.

See for example https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21includes%21database.inc/functio...

Docs standards should additionally say that a CR should be linked to if one exists, and that the link must be given within the @deprecated tag.

See for example https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21modules%21migrate_drupal%21src%...

Problem/Motivation

State what you believe is wrong or missing from the current standards.

Benefits

If we adopted this change, the Drupal Project would benefit by ...

Three supporters required

  1. https://www.drupal.org/u/ {userid} (yyyy-mm-dd they added support)
  2. https://www.drupal.org/u/ {userid} (yyyy-mm-dd they added support)
  3. https://www.drupal.org/u/ {userid} (yyyy-mm-dd they added support)

Proposed changes

Provide all proposed changes to the Drupal Coding standards . Give a link to each section that will be changed, and show the current text and proposed text as in the following layout:

1. @deprecated: Indicating deprecated functionality

The @deprecated tag is placed in a documentation block to indicate that a function, method, or class has been deprecated and should not be used, but has not yet been removed.

Syntax

@deprecated in %deprecation-version% and is removed from %removal-version%. %extra-info%.
@see %cr-link%

Syntax notes

Add proposed text in blockquotes

2. Repeat the above for each page or sub-page that needs to be changed.

Remaining tasks

  1. Add supporters
  2. Create a Change Record
  3. Review by the Coding Standards Committee
  4. Coding Standards Committee takes action as required
  5. Discussed by the Core Committer Committee, if it impacts Drupal Core
  6. Final review by Coding Standards Committee
  7. Documentation updates
    1. Edit all pages
    2. Publish change record
    3. Remove 'Needs documentation edits' tag
  8. If applicable, create follow-up issues for PHPCS rules/sniffs changes

For a full explanation of these steps see the Coding Standards project page

📌 Task
Status

Active

Component

Coding Standards

Created by

🇬🇧United Kingdom joachim

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