[meta] Tasks to deprecate Actions UI module

Filed child issue #3344683: Unreserve or create "action" module in contrib

Removing references to the extension from database dumps.

Looks that's the only task from summary left

There's only one usage in drupal-9.4.0.filled.standard.php.gz (core.extension) and later in routing

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Whoops, a bit late to the game. Wish I saw all this in time to have posted this to #3266458: [Policy] Deprecate Action (UI) module in D10 and move to contrib in D11, but that's already done and decided...

While I mostly agree that the "Actions UI" module is confusing and not terribly helpful on its own, #2797583: Dynamically provide action plugins for every moderation state change is categorized as a "Major feature", followed by 152 (which is very high for most core issues). Perhaps that issue can be changed so that you don't have to enable the Action UI to create individual actions for the content_moderation transitions you want, and it would instead dynamically provide actions for everything automatically. But that'd introduce its own UI problems, since then everywhere you get a list of actions, you might have dozens of new actions you have to hide that don't make sense, etc. It's clunky, but having to manually create the actions you actually need (instead of getting everything automatically) is kinda helpful.

Anyway, would love to hear thoughts on how to handle (much needed) functionality like that issue, if we have no more Actions UI in core.

Thanks/sorry!
-Derek

As I see we have no contribution to actions at all because of this incomplete transition to contrib

To unblock we should deprecate it or unblock issues

curious about tests as node/comment actions require actions UI to be configured

which means we can not do functional testing without it

- https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/blob/11.x/core/modules/node/...
- https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/blob/11.x/core/modules/comme...

Added links to #14 - both plugins require ui to configure keywords

CommentActionsTest directly updates the plugin configuration to test the keywords functionality, so I think the plugin and tests will continue to work if we move action module to contrib.

However, I'm not sure those two plugins make sense without a UI, so maybe we should also consider an issue to move them into the actions_ui module?

Not sure it makes sense to deprecate them, because there's goto,message,email actions in core https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/tree/11.x/core/lib/Drupal/Co...

Just ran into obscure Action-related edge cases over at #3361534-70: KernelTestBase::$strictConfigSchema = TRUE and BrowserTestBase::$strictConfigSchema = TRUE do not actually strictly validate. Glad to see this happening!

Oh and per #3266458-11: [Policy] Deprecate Action (UI) module in D10 and move to contrib in D11, I think this issue is a bit misleading — is this tweak accurate? 😅

Last blocker is RTBC #3413949: Move some Action plugins to Action module

Now it needs infra team to create project and then I can split 1.x branch in #3344683: Unreserve or create "action" module in contrib

Now only deprecation of module is lest #3369912: Final steps to deprecate Actions UI (action) module

I'm going to append split in contrib after #3413949: Move some Action plugins to Action module

Btw the cleanup landed with 2 follow-ups
- #3427413: Stop using action in user module in role entity hooks
- #3427549: [PP-1] Move configurable user actions to the actions module

Docs updated https://www.drupal.org/node/3223395#s-action

New release https://www.drupal.org/project/action/releases/0.1.0

The project page could use an update: https://www.drupal.org/project/action, it's currently using the template.

I did update of project page, looks we can mark it fixed

Yep ready to go now I think!

Filed follow-up #3437589: Move permission, jsonapi and rest tests out of the action module