[PATCH v2 0/6] Remove 'Submission' model

[Stephen Finucane]

Time to clean up the Submission-Patch-CoverLetter mess and unblock
features like Veronika's reworked tagging infrastructure series.

As discussed in the commit message, this series ultimately takes us from
this model hierarchy:

  Submission
    Patch
    CoverLetter
    Comment

To this hierarchy:

  Patch
    PatchComment
  Cover
    CoverComment

It does this by splitting out the cover letter-related entries from the
Submission-CoverLetter and Comment models into two entirely new models,
Cover and CoverComment, and then renaming Comment to PatchComment and
combining Patch and Submission. This is all explored in more detail in
the commit messages.

There were a couple of other approaches explored over the two years or
so of on-and-off investigation I've had into this issue, which I've
listed below:

- Add entirely new models

  Add new models that will replace Patch, CoverLetter and Comment, as
  well as Submission. These could be called Patch, Cover, PatchComment
  and CoverComment, (with some intermediate names to allow the old and
  new models to coexist while we migrate stuff across), so:

      Submission+Patch -> Patch
      Submission+CoverLetter -> Cover
      Comment -> PatchComment or CoverComment, depending on parent

  Rejected because of the sheer amount of data that has to be moved
  around for this to work. Effectively, the entire database would need
  to be rewritten.

- Drop CoverLetter in favour of Series

  A cover letter is essentially additional metadata for a series and
  could be folded into this.

  Rejected because of the impact on the API and UI since we'd no longer
  have cover letter IDs to use in the URL. Doesn't give us enough to
  justify the effort.

- Use generic relations for 'Comment'

  The contenttypes framework provided by Django allows you to map a
  model to another model. This means we could have a single Comment
  model that could point to either the Cover or Patch model.

  Rejected because I didn't think the complexity was worth it. I may
  revisit this though before we merge since we'll presumably want
  similar functionality for the reworked tags feature in the future.

- Merge Submission into Patch, rather than the other way around

  This was actually my first approach and initially seemed easier due to
  the amount of references to the Patch model.

  Rejected because this is not currently possible using stock Django due
  to bug #23521, which states that there is no way to change a model's
  'bases' attribute at the moment. I had to copy code from an unmerged
  PR, #11222, to get this to work which didn't seem ideal. In addition,
  it turned out updating the references wasn't difficult once I realized
  that another bug, #25530, only affected Django 1.11 and could be
  worked around.

Stephen Finucane (6):
  trivial: Rename 'CoverLetter' references to 'Cover'
  Remove unnecessary references to Submission model
  Revert "Be sensible computing project patch counts"
  models: Split 'CoverLetter' from 'Submission'
  models: Merge 'Patch' and 'Submission'
  models: Trivial post-merge cleanup

 docs/api/schemas/latest/patchwork.yaml        |  14 +-
 docs/api/schemas/patchwork.j2                 |  14 +-
 docs/api/schemas/v1.0/patchwork.yaml          |  14 +-
 docs/api/schemas/v1.1/patchwork.yaml          |  14 +-
 docs/api/schemas/v1.2/patchwork.yaml          |  14 +-
 patchwork/admin.py                            |  28 +-
 patchwork/api/comment.py                      |  56 +++-
 patchwork/api/cover.py                        |  34 +-
 patchwork/api/embedded.py                     |   4 +-
 patchwork/api/event.py                        |   4 +-
 patchwork/api/filters.py                      |  11 +-
 patchwork/api/series.py                       |   4 +-
 patchwork/management/commands/dumparchive.py  |   2 +-
 patchwork/management/commands/parsearchive.py |  11 +-
 patchwork/migrations/0042_add_cover_model.py  | 247 +++++++++++++++
 .../migrations/0043_merge_patch_submission.py | 292 ++++++++++++++++++
 patchwork/models.py                           | 170 ++++++----
 patchwork/parser.py                           |  89 ++++--
 patchwork/signals.py                          |   4 +-
 patchwork/tests/api/test_comment.py           |  11 +-
 patchwork/tests/api/test_cover.py             |   2 +-
 patchwork/tests/test_detail.py                |  33 +-
 patchwork/tests/test_mboxviews.py             |  40 ++-
 patchwork/tests/test_parser.py                |   4 +-
 patchwork/tests/test_series.py                |   2 +-
 patchwork/tests/test_tags.py                  |   6 +-
 patchwork/tests/utils.py                      |  37 ++-
 patchwork/urls.py                             |   8 +-
 patchwork/views/__init__.py                   |   2 +-
 patchwork/views/comment.py                    |  43 ++-
 patchwork/views/cover.py                      |  22 +-
 patchwork/views/patch.py                      |  13 +-
 patchwork/views/project.py                    |  29 +-
 patchwork/views/utils.py                      |  21 +-
 34 files changed, 1013 insertions(+), 286 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 patchwork/migrations/0042_add_cover_model.py
 create mode 100644 patchwork/migrations/0043_merge_patch_submission.py

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