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The Reports tool suffers from unfixed blocker issues in the latest 2.7 testing. Community resource to resolve these issues and continue to maintain the tools has not come forward, while the maintenance team feels itself unable to address them.
Proposal
Stealth both Both of these tools in 2.7have been provisional, and mark them as deprecated were never adopted as core tools.
Proposal
These tools should already be stealthed, but they should now also be flagged for deprecation in the release notes. If community resource comes forward to fix and maintain them they may be restored to full service in a future version. If not, they may be removed entirely for 2.8, but this should also be used as an occasion to discuss and perhaps support alternatives.
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There are institutions using one or both of these tools in production (the known institutions include IU and RINET), and they would be affected by the blocker issues in any event, should they opt for 2.7. Stealthing and flagging the tools for 2.7 should reduce the chance that new deployers would come to depend on them.