[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43442: Add tools for anonymizing of commenters

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#43442: Add tools for anonymizing of commenters
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 Reporter:  azaozz                        |       Owner:  allendav
     Type:  enhancement                   |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                        |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  General                       |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr has-patch needs-testing  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by birgire):

 Thanks for the feedback @allendav

 - Yes, it's something to consider, I'm still 50/50 divided between
 approach b) and c) ;-)
   I might have had few timeout cases in the past, when deleting hundreds
 of spam comments in bulk, in wp-admin.
 - Regarding the messages in {{{wp_comments_personal_data_eraser}}}, one
 way could be to grab possible (rare) db update errors with:

 {{{
 $updated = $wpdb->update( $wpdb->comments, $anonymized_comment, array(
         'comment_ID' => $comment->comment_ID,
 ) );

 if ( $updated ) {
         $num_items_removed++;
 } else {
         $messages[] = sprintf(
                 'Comment %d contained personal data but could not be
 anonymized.',
                 $comment->comment_ID
         );
 }

 }}}

 - Any particular structure here for {{{$messages}}} (like we see e.g. in
 the {{{$data_to_export}}} array
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/42888 here]) ?

 - Another thing to consider is empty input for
 {{{wp_comments_personal_data_eraser()}}}, it will still erase comments, as
 it will call {{{get_comments()}}} but without the email filtering.

 - Also the admin page is ''Remove Personal Data'' but here we have
 ''erase'' functions. So we have both "remove" and "erase". I think we
 should consider only one of them for consistency.

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