Retire the Resolver plugin

[kaitlinnewson]

The Resolver plugin in OJS creates resolvable URLs to publications. With the prominence of PIDs like DOIs however, the plugin seems less likely to be used and could be retired.

A web search for the URL format that the plugin generates returns very few results, suggesting that these URLs are not being used frequently.

What application are you using?
OJS (this plugin is only for OJS)

Additional information

• More information about the plugin

Pull requests

• pkp/pkp-lib#10964 remove resolver plugin ojs#4690

[asmecher]

It would also be easy to restore if there is a demand for it, but I agree, I suspect it's not used. I suggest removing it to confirm :)

[kaitlinnewson]

@asmecher Would this be appropriate for 3.5 so we can add a migration to remove it from the database - or defer that for later?

[asmecher]

Hmm... I would lean towards no, I think. OJS should behave just fine with an extra entry in versions for a gateway plugin that isn't present, and as a general practice plugin data should be able to sit dormant in an installation in case it's useful again later.

Clarification: That's a no to the migration, but a yes to removing it from the github repo for 3.5.0.

[asmecher]

Merged, thanks!