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fix: Remove pointless Maintenance and Announcement apps #35852

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Description

The Studio Maintenance app had two features:

  • "Force Course Publish", which literally doesn't do anything. All it does is tell you what version would be seen by users if the course were to be published--no publishing actually occurs via this feature.

  • "Announcements", which writes to the announcements_announcement database table, but doesn't actually display anywhere.

Having these pages in the platform is actively misleading and creates a maintenance burden for edx-platform developers, so this commit removes them.

Note that this commit does not include a migration for the announcements Django app. So, announcements_announcement table will not be deleted. Given the small expected size of any past-authored announcements, we are not worried about leaving them in the database perpetually. (REVIEWERS: Let me know if you disagree with this.)

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Blocked by:

Other cleanup (non-blocking):

Supporting Info: Screenshots of the platform without this PR

Maintenance link in the Studio header

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The "Maintenance Dashboard"

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"Force Publish Course" not doing anything other than a dry run

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"Announcements" that do not show up anywhere

Not even in the deprecated frontends!

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kdmccormick added a commit to kdmccormick/frontend-component-header that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2024
This Studio Maintenance app has been broken for a long time,
so it has been removed:
openedx/edx-platform#35852
kdmccormick added a commit to kdmccormick/frontend-component-header that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2024
This Studio Maintenance app has been broken for a long time,
so it is being removed from edx-platform:
openedx/edx-platform#35852
The Studio Maintenance app had two features:

* "Force Course Publish", which literally doesn't do anything. All it
  does is tell you what version *would* be seen by users *if* the course
  were to be published--no publishing actually occurs via this feature.

* "Announcements", which writes to the announcements_announcement
  database table, but doesn't actually display anywhere.

Having these pages in the platform is actively misleading and creates a
maintenance burden for edx-platform developers, so we remove them.

Note that this commit does not include a migration for the announcements
Django app. So, announcements_announcement table will not be deleted.
Given the small expected size of any past-authored announcements, we are
not worried about leaving them in the database perpetually.
@kdmccormick kdmccormick force-pushed the kdmccormick/cms-maintenance-depr branch from b678bc7 to 9c556a1 Compare November 14, 2024 20:27
kdmccormick added a commit to kdmccormick/frontend-component-header that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2024
This Studio Maintenance app has been broken for a long time,
so it is being removed from edx-platform:
openedx/edx-platform#35852
kdmccormick added a commit to openedx/frontend-component-header that referenced this pull request Nov 15, 2024
This Studio Maintenance app has been broken for a long time,
so it is being removed from edx-platform:
openedx/edx-platform#35852
kdmccormick added a commit to openedx/frontend-app-authoring that referenced this pull request Nov 15, 2024
This link is defined in frontend-component-header, so the message
shouldn't be here. Anyway, we are deleting the link from
frontend-component-header too

Related:
* openedx/frontend-component-header#553
* openedx/edx-platform#35852
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