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[Aaron Wells <1401708@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right, so the problem is that new plugins get installed before core
upgrades run. So what's happening is this:

1. The new "text" blocktype goes to install. It uses the method
install_blocktype_categories_for_plugin() to fill in the plugin's
categories. This method looks for the available categories in the
"blocktype_category" table. It doesn't find "shortcut" there, so it
skips that one, leaving the "text" blocktype in no categories.

2. The core upgrade runs and sets up the "shortcut" category type.

I'll have to do a little research to figure out the best way to resolve
this. I'd like to think that it makes more sense to install new plugins
*after* running core upgrades and maybe upgrades for existing plugins as
well. But certainly before we make a change that big to the install
process, we need to look at the code history and determine whether
there's a reason why the new plugin installs come first.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401708

Title:
  "Text" block no longer available on page builder, after upgrade 1.9 ->
  15.04dev

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  If you do an upgrade directly from Mahara 1.9 to 15.04dev, the "Text"
  block isn't available in the block pallette on the page builder. (It
  should show up next to the "Text" block).

  There is no problem if you do a clean install, or if you upgrade from
  1.10.

  Using git bisect I traced it to this patch:
  https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/3943/

  Probably the problem is that our code that uses the "Shortcut"
  category to identify the blocks that should be placed in the shortcut,
  is not compatible with the code that we used to convert the 1.9 "text
  box" block into the 1.10 "text" block.

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