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edx-platform/lms/djangoapps/discussion
Michael Terry cb1bb7fa64 test: switch default test store to the split store
It's long past time that the default test modulestore was Split,
instead of Old Mongo. This commit switches the default store and
fixes some tests that now fail:
- Tests that didn't expect MFE to be enabled (because we don't
  enable MFE for Old Mongo) - opt out of MFE for those
- Tests that hardcoded old key string formats
- Lots of other random little differences

In many places, I didn't spend much time trying to figure out how to
properly fix the test, and instead just set the modulestore to Old
Mongo.

For those tests that I didn't spend time investigating, I've set
the modulestore to TEST_DATA_MONGO_AMNESTY_MODULESTORE - search for
that string to find further work.
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Status: Maintenance

Responsibilities
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The Discussion app powers the Open edX forums experience.

Direction: Move and Extract
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Discussions related functionality is scattered across a number of places and should be better consolidated. Today we have:

* ``lms/djangoapps/discussion``
* ``openedx/core/djangoapps/django_comment_common``
* ``openedx/core/lib/xblock_builtin/xblock_discussion``

Ideally, what we want in the long term is for all of this extracted into a new repository that holds the code for both the inline discussion XBlock as well as all the Django apps.

That being said, it's not clear what the path forward for this app is. Forum functionality is something that has not been actively worked on for a while, and it's been suggested that we should remove this app altogether in favor of having better integration with other more established forum software. This decision is usually complicated by the desire to have tight integration with courseware and access to data for analytics.

Regardless, check with Product before undertaking any major refactoring work here.

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