Deprecated modules that have are incorporated into core look abandoned, especially because the anchor link from admin/modules is wrong

Created on 15 October 2024, 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

From the admin/modules page in Drupal 10.3 we currently have:

The link to the specific information for Help Topics is broken (needs to be a dash not an underscore at the end there).

Single Directory Components does not have its individual link at all, it should be: https://www.drupal.org/node/3223395#s-single-directory-components-sdc

(or the path alias version of that; this is also inconsistent)

Steps to reproduce

Open admin/modules on the current version of Drupal and look at the deprecated core modules as if you did not already know that Help Topics and SDC have been elevated firmly into core, rather than removed from it. What impression are we sending the curious and ambitious?

Proposed resolution

Immediate fix is to fix those links, at least one has to be fixed in the Drupal code, so i guess both should be, though that is slower than

Longer term, it is pretty clear this current approach is too brittle. Probably individual extension deprecations should get an in-Drupal help topic, a separate one for each, and maybe even that should link to a dedicated page on d.o rather than directly to the overwhelming and inevitably largely-inapplicable Deprecated and obsolete extensions page.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

Introduced terminology

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

🐛 Bug report
Status

Active

Version

10.3

Component

extension system

Created by

🇺🇸United States mlncn Minneapolis, MN, USA

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