Add new and removed fpf slots for the Verawood release

[sarina]

Made a quick script to get at this information, and then adjusted by hand. Will improve the script once I have some feedback on whether or not it did the right thing :\

https://github.com/sarina/scripts/blob/main/diff-plugin-slots.py

Co-Authored-By: Claude noreply@anthropic.com

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[brian-smith-tcril]

Overall this is looking great! Couple comments about the "Updated" section in learning. One high-level question I have is if any header slot changes were looked at. We don't have named release branches for those so the comparison would have to go based on the versions installed by each MFE (ideally the same version across the board) in each release.

[brian-smith-tcril]

Old ids still there as aliases

Same sidenote as the previous one about an extra alias we probably shouldn't have (right_sidebar_trigger_slot).

[brian-smith-tcril]

This does appear to be removed. It's not clear from https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-learning/blob/release/verawood/docs/decisions/0010-upgrade-widget-extraction.md what a site operator that was using that slot before is supposed to do now. Not something that needs to be addressed on this page but worth adding to the ADR.

[sarina]

Yeah, I dug a bit and that was the conclusion I came to

[brian-smith-tcril]

I think what I'd be looking for at a high level in this section would be:

• What IDs are deprecated
  • When will the deprecated ID stop working? What should I change it to?
• Will my existing plugins still work?
  • From what I can tell the shape of the slots didn't change, so existing plugins should still work.
• How do I fix it if my plugin broke? What should I do instead?
  • ADR link should cover that.

[sarina]

I'm not sure I have the context to fix all that :\ would you be able to make suggestions, or a PR into this branch?

[brian-smith-tcril]

One more thing worth mentioning: the frontend-base versions of authn and learner-dashboard have frontend-base versions of the slots now. It might actually make sense to have a separate frontend-base slots doc and just link to that for the instructor dash part.

[sarina]

@brian-smith-tcril

the frontend-base versions of authn and learner-dashboard have frontend-base versions of the slots now. It might actually make sense to have a separate frontend-base slots doc and just link to that for the instructor dash part.

I agree and disagree. I think a separate frontend-base page for the new, optional frontend-base apps makes sense. However since instructor dash is default, I think we should advertise on the main release page what's available by default.

Once I have a better understanding of how to find & link to frontend-base slots (see my inline question about the instructor dash slot urls) I can do that as well.