[DEPR]: Legacy Text Editor

[KristinAoki]

Proposal Date

2024-05-03

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2024-05-17

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Sumac - 2024-10

Rationale

The EditImageModal component that is used it the legacy Text Editor is also set for deprecation and removal. To prevent errors and regression while using the legacy Text Editor, it is best to remove it completely from the platform. The legacy Text Editor already has replacement that can be toggled with new_core_editors.use_new_text_editor and will be come the default once this deprecation occurs.

Removal

1. Remove toggle for switching between editors
2. Remove dependency on toggle for text editor redirect and make it always true
3. Remove dependencies on toggles when fetching the course authoring mfe url

Replacement

This code is being replaced by the frontend-lib-content-components/TextEditor. This text editor is a React based component and is rendered in the Course Authoring MFE.

Deprecation

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Migration

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Additional Info

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Task List

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[felipemontoya]

The removal of the ENABLE_NEW_TEXT_EDITOR_FLAG was done at the frontend in this PR openedx/frontend-app-course-authoring#951. This happened due to a bug before the redwood cut.

[kdmccormick]

If you're watching the issue, then FYI there is some conversation about StudioEditableXBlockMixin going on in the related forum thread: https://discuss.openedx.org/t/deprecation-removal-text-editor-in-edx-platform-34692