Hi everybody,
we're cleaning out the issue tracker. Some things are important, but falling off our list
of things we can reasonably manage to do. Some of these things are not actually hard, I
think, but need someone who can work with GRC and attack these.
This is one of these issues:
https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues/1106, "Deprecate packet
synchronizers"
These blocks have been around forever, and I don't even know whether every single one of
them still exists. Someone could go through the list and just search for the strings that
don't have a file name attached to them and see whether they still exist, and comment on that.
Afterwards, they could go through that list and do:
for each individual block mentioned
1. add the |flags: [deprecated]| property to each block's
gr-something/grc/something_blockname.block.yml,
2. Make sure the block still shows up correctly in GRC, but marked as
deprecated (orange!)
3. search the examples whether any existing example uses the block
4. open a new issue "remove or update example XYZ to not use deprecated block"
for each
affected example
5. (equally important) add a remark to the block's wiki page (if it exists)
that it's
deprecated, in bold, quite at the beginning of each page
while doing this, talking to the people in the #docs Matrix chat room is probably a good
idea, they have a good idea of existing examples, and the wiki.
Best regards,
Marcus
