Planning Document: feature release (v1.33 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. Enable Ticket Project Task

   Intent is that since this model is new it will be enabled first for usage to confirm that the base class, UI and logic works as intended.

7. 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

• ❗ Confirm that the roles endpoint can accept module.permission strings if not fix this regression and write tests

  No it wont. needs to be implemented.

  • 1️⃣ 🧪 Enable Role permissions to be updated in module.permission format #1160 Update permission serializer to accept permissions in either id or module.permission (also waiting on Migrate playbook teams -> roles ansible_collection_centurion#47)

• Metadata URL Testing #1177

🏁 Roadmap

Completed

• 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 Action Comment by Type - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/45

• Complete then enable Project Task tickets - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/47

• Ticket Model Migration - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/46

  • Migrations from old -> new ticket models (signal)
  • UI also requires work as the ticket UI is not yet complete.

• IT Asset Refactor - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/30

♾️ In the future

• Basic Accounting - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/38

• Git Repositories - https://github.com/nofusscomputing/centurion_erp/milestone/41

• 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

• ✔️ Docker cron job fetch feature flag is running every minute #1184

• When a user is authenticated, they cant access feature-flag endpoint. #1185

Outstanding Backlog

This section contains items from the backlog that are considered priority

• Integration Tests #152

• Milestones completion #337

• 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 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

• refactor Metadata test suit to pytest #1058

• 1️⃣ 🧪 Enable Role permissions to be updated in module.permission format #1160

• Pragmatically track depreciated objects #1170

Ansible Collection work

• Migrate playbook teams -> roles ansible_collection_centurion#47

Footnotes

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