[PATCH v2 0/6] Remove 'Submission' model
Stephen Finucane
stephen at that.guru
Sun Apr 26 22:53:33 AEST 2020
On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 18:12 +0100, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> 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.
I've rebased and applied this series since it was a blocker for the
other work I want to get closed out for 3.0. Reviews are still welcome,
particularly on the SQL'y parts of the migrations where my lack of DB-
fu would be most evident.
Stephen
> 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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