Problem/Motivation

User module ships two views that were originally shipped with views in contrib - 'Who's online' and 'Who's new'.

Who's online has some privacy considerations even for a community site, and who's new is liable to show spam accounts unless user accounts are pre-moderated.

I'm not aware of any sites that use either view, and there are plenty of examples of views both in core and contrib these days, so that core modules don't need to ship 'demo' views.

These views aren't just dormant. They show up in the views UI unless you explicitly delete them. Also on every cold cache request they have to be loaded from the database and written to cache. Writing all the views that Umami ships with to the cache bin takes 80ms and there about 20 views shipped with umami. So it's potentially 1-4ms on every site that doesn't delete the views. Very small but non-zero.

See this from the Gander dashboard:

Screenshot of a trace showing 20 views config objects being written in a setMultiple call to the config cache backend

https://gander.tag1.io/explore?schemaVersion=1&panes=%7B%22ac5%22:%7B%22...

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catch created an issue. See original summary.

catch opened merge request !15930

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Status: Active » Needs work

Made a start on removals and fixed a couple of obvious tests, expecting more test failures.

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Not that bad - a couple of views UI tests that are using the who's online view, can likely switch that to a different view that's not going anywhere (did that for one test already).

InstallerExistingConfigMultilingualTest needs a bit more work - can probably also switch the view that's used, but also there's a fixture of the who's online view used in that test that would be swapped out too.

danielveza made their first commit to this issue’s fork.

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Status: Needs work » Needs review

Fixed the remaining tests, and removed the stale versions of these views in the translation tests. Ready for review. I believe the fail is unrelated.

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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

Looks great. Net approx 1000 lines removed.

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs work

Needs a rebase.

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Issue tags: +12.0.0 release highlights
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Status: Needs work » Reviewed & tested by the community

Rebased, back to green

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Couple of Qs on the MR.

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs review
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Adressed comments. IMO this is ready to be RTBC again, but I'll let someone else do that

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Yes, changes needed were minimal, so fine to go back to RTBC.

  • longwave committed 906ccf1d on main 
    task: #3592672 Remove the who's new and who's online views

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Yep these are obsolete and probably should have been removed a long time ago.

Committed and pushed 906ccf1db91 to main. Thanks!

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