I decided to move this recent discussion from the reactions plugin topic to Site feedback, since it is about how we use this site to communicate about plugins moving to core. This will happen from time to time but now we’re doing a big push to move many popular plugins into core, which will affect many self-hosters. This is announced in Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core.
@moin suggested the Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core announcement topic could have been posted to Announcements, or we could create a sub-category there for announcements for self-hosters. That’s a good idea too. But then we’d have to be mindful not to confuse our self-serve and enterprise hosting customers who do not need to do anything.
All the affected plugins need to have their topics reviewed to remove the installation instructions and to indicate they are included in core and do not need to be installed, and given the included-in-core tag.
@JammyDodger can you remind me what the intention is behind the included-in-core tag? Is it as self-explanatory as just to communicate the fact that a given plugin is in core and does not need to be installed in the usual way by adding it to app.yml
?