Planning Document: feature release (v1.30 expected)

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planning document for release.

Working Plan

Currently there are a lot of changes occurring that require they be done in a specific order. This working plan is the coordination of that work.

-🥇 Priority is to get the refactored ticketing system production ready.

This will be done in the following stages:

• Add Model Roles
• Migrate Teams to Roles
• Add entity Models
• Complete the new ticket models
• role out new ticket models

Goals

• Ticketing system refactored to use sub-models 1️⃣ Refactor Ticketing Models #564

Order of Work / Tasks

1. Core Models¹

   • ✔️ New Model - core.TicketBase #723
   • ✔️ New Model - core.TicketCommentBase #726
   • ✔️ New Model - core.TicketCommentSolution #728
   • ✔️ New Model - core.ActionComment #736
   • additional-reqs
     • ✔️ Add remaining model tests - core.TicketBase #889
     • ✔️ add remaining model tests - core.TicketCommentAction #885
     • ✔️ Add remaining model tests - core.TicketCommentBase #884
     • ✔️ Add remaining model tests - core.TicketCommentSolution #886

2. Models Dependent upon new models

   • ✔️ New Model - core.TicketLinkedModel #1012 - Linking of items
   • ✔️ New Model - core.TicketDependency #1025
   • Ticket Slash Commands #273

3. Entity Models - Refactor Manufacturers/Users/Groups/Teams #704

   • pre-reqs for all entity models:

     • ✔️ Remove Django UI #757 - do now as maintaining is creating extra work
     • Model inheritance cleanup #767
     • 7️⃣ History - Meta Model #759
     • ✔️ Note Meta Model #768
     • Unit Tests Completion of api.CommonViewSet #898

   • ✔ New Model - Entity #706

   • ✔️ Migrate teams to be Roles (RBAC) #551

   • Employee Entity
     Users need to be linked to entity

     • ✔️ Add remaining model tests - human_resources.Employee #881
     • Add User Field to Entity
       User must have entity as field so it can be added to User fields that use entity

4. Migrate Auth to new User Model

   • ✔ user model change prep - get_user_model() #755

5. Add/Refactor new ticket and comment models

   • Base Ticket Model
     • Add entity to assigned field
     • Add entity to subscribed field
     • Add entity to opened by field
   • Base Comment Model
     • Add entity to user field
       • must be locked to type that is a single person

6. Migration to new Tickets - Migrate Tickets to new models #746

   • Migrate Tickets to new models #746¹

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Links / References

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Tasks

• ▶️ Add tests for input validation #852

• 🧪 Confirm Tests ensure that the audit entries are being created for ALL models

• 🧪 ⏩ Add model test case to inherited that ensures the base class methods clean, clean_fields etc are called ◀️
  i.e. ticket base clean does not call super().clean() which was not detected

• ✔️ Remove code pytest/simplified#2 #1100

🏁 Release schedule

• Emplyee model - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/37

• Manufacturer Migration - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/39

• Ticket Feature Preperation - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/43

  • Meta model - Tickets
    auto-magic model that allows linking to a ticket
  • Ticket Slash commands
  • Ticket Action Comments

• Ticket Feature Preperation extended - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/40

• Ticket Model Migration - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/45

  • Migrations from old -> new ticket models (signal)

♾️ In the future

• Basic Accounting - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/38
• Git Repositories - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/41
• IT Asset Refactor - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/30
• Ensure Config Management usable - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/42

Outstanding Bugs

• Organization manager cant view organization #425

• Missing UI Feature, ITAM - Software #653

• Missing UI Feature, ITAM - Devices #654

• Missing UI Feature, ITAM - Operating System #655

• Current Permissions model prevents admin panel access #1107

• ✔️ Markdown field uses TicketBase as model for permission check #1118

• Editing an entity model within the inheritence chain incorrectly updates field entity_type #1123

Outstanding Backlog

This section contains items from the backlog that are considered priority

• Integration Tests #152

• Unit test API HTTP/OPTIONS endpoint #394

• 🧪 fix skipped tests #395

• DB queries >2K per view #471

• 🧪 Wrong serializer is used for CRUD return #477

• Rename Organizations to Tenant #505

• 🧪 Add Model Git repository #515

• 1️⃣ Refactor Ticketing Models #564

• New Model - Software Packages #636

• Deployment Statistics #676

• Organization and Permission Mixin test case refactor #698

• Refactor Manufacturers/Users/Groups/Teams #704

• Refactor All Tests to use PyTest not unittest #729

• Meta Models #758

• 7️⃣ History - Meta Model #759

• Model inheritance cleanup #767

• Remaining model Tests #876

• 3️⃣ Add remaining model tests - devops.GitGroup #882

• 3️⃣ Add remaining model tests - accounting.AssetBase #887

• 3️⃣ Add remaining model tests - itam.ITAMAssetBase #888

• Unit Tests Completion of api.CommonViewSet #898

• 7️⃣ Add Viewset Functional test suite for ALL ViewSets #984

• ✔️ New Model - itim.ChangeTicket #1045

• ✔️ New Model - itim.IncidentTicket #1046

• ✔️ New Model - project_management.ProjectTask #1047

• ✔️ New Model - itim.ProblemTicket #1048

• refactor Metadata test suit to pytest #1058

• ✔️ Capture ManyToManyField as part of audit history #1064

• ✔️ remove superfluous property Meta.sub_model_type #1132

Ansible Collection work

• Migrate playbook teams -> roles ansible_collection_centurion#47

Footnotes

1. Blocked By: Unit Tests Completion of api.CommonViewSet #898 ↩ ↩²