[DEPR]: Legacy track selection page shown only to enterprise users

[deborahgu]

Proposal Date

2025-01-09

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2025-01-23

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Teak - 2025-04

Rationale

When the new track selection page was first made in 2021, a decision was made at that time to leave the legacy page in place for enterprise learners who somehow end up at that page. Those users were considered to be an edge case, because they shouldn't have been ending up on the track selection page at all; they should have been going through their enterprise system for enrollment.

(Originally there was going to be code sending enterprise learners to a track selection page which included messaging about their unusual choice; this work was eventually just dropped.)

There is no value-add to keeping this old page in place. It does not remove any potential confusion for enterprise learners who end up on the track selection page, because there is no information there letting them know something unusual is happening. Sending them to the new (post-2021) track selection page doesn't add any confusions that aren't already present.

Meanwhile, keeping it in place has multiple substantial costs:

• legacy code which shouldn't be present sitting around for ever
• an unusual logic flow choice
• the high likelihood that development and QA tests will be performed by people who are enterprise learners, who, unbeknownst to them, will be modifying or testing a page which is seen by almost no other people

Removal

• the conditional route for enterprise users
• the old choose.html page

Replacement

this was replaced with the rest of the templates in course_modes in 2021; this removal will simply move enterprise users into the same flow as everyone else.

Deprecation

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Migration

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Additional Info

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Task List

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