Proposal: Make "Delete My Account" text configurable

[pkulkark]

We want to make the text appearing in the "Delete My Account" section of the Account Settings page, configurable via comprehensive themes. Currently the text shown in this section is quite specific to edx.org:

Please note: Deletion of your account and personal data is permanent and cannot be undone. EdX will not be able to recover your account or the data that is deleted.

Once your account is deleted, you cannot use it to take courses on the edX app, edx.org, or any other site hosted by edX. This includes access to edx.org from your employer’s or university’s system and access to private sites offered by MIT Open Learning, Wharton Executive Education, and Harvard Medical School.

You may also lose access to verified certificates and other program credentials like MicroMasters certificates. If you want to make a copy of these for your records before proceeding with deletion, follow the instructions for printing or downloading a certificate.

Proposed solution

The above text is defined within the StudentAccountDeletion react component. This component is rendered from the StudentAccountDeletionInitializer.js file. Javascript files can be overridden in themes but in this particular case, the account_settings.html loads StudentAccountDeletionInitializer as a webpack entry-point. There are two ways to go about this:

1. The short-term solution would be to redefine account_settings.html file within the custom theme, which can contain the customized text written in html.

2. The long-term solution would be to implement theming of react component. There is already an OEP for this that covers the details.

CC: @natabene

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[natabene]

@pkulkark Thank you for your contribution. @ormsbee Do you want to give this an early look?

[ormsbee]

I'm not sure I understand what's being proposed specifically. OEP-0028 is a big proposal, and I'm not up to speed on it's current status. The short term solution sounds like it wouldn't really require any code changes to edx-platform itself, if existing comprehensive theming overrides will work (though I agree that it's not ideal)?

[pkulkark]

@ormsbee Sorry for the delayed response. Basically, we're asking if we can make the account_settings.html page themeable, because it currently isn't, even though it contradicts the long-term plans.

[ormsbee]

@pkulkark: Yes, go ahead and make account_settings.html themable. My understanding is that it'll be fairly straightforward to do so. If there are complicating factors, please let me know.

FWIW, I'm guessing this template will be in Juniper, and we can make a good migration argument for leaving it in that release. However, it's almost certain to be gone before Koa.

[ormsbee]

Since we've discussed this and you have approval for a path forward, I'm going to close this PR. Please feel free to open a new one with the implementation, or re-open this one if that's more convenient.

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