[13.0.0] Remove support for public_group, open_group, closed_group, and secret_group and migrate to flexible_group

Different roles will be able to create groups with different visibility settings if only flexible group remains?

Thanks for adding that use case! That's not currently possible so I've opened #3380962: Allow visibility settings for flexible groups to be limited to certain roles → . Feel free to chime in with more info on what you'd need.

How do you envision group content being handled?

In https://github.com/goalgorilla/open_social/pull/3693 we've merged the update hook that will migrate all the existing group types to Flexible Groups. This update hook will be part of the 13.0.0 release (for which we'll tag alpha/beta versions in advance).

The update hook is written in a way that looks at the different tables for the group module that we know about and will update the bundle field in the database. This means that group content will stick to the same group and have the same visibility but the group type of the group the content belongs to will change.

Our internal testing on data sets from some of our larger clients is showing that this strategy is working as expected. If you want to test this on a development environment with your own data set (so that you can see if anything is missing for your own customisations) then you can pull in the update hook by asking composer to fetch dev-main. Do note that our main branch is rapidly changing so you may run into other changes depending on what customisations you've made on top of the Open Social distribution.

Part of 13.0.0 (alpha1)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.