Sunday, August 14, 2016

Lino Care moving forward

During a meeting with Annalisa we identified a few new things for Lino Care:

  • The “simple” user profile must have access to a very limited functionality. They plan to invite many people to register as simple users and to enter their pleas.

  • A new table “Where I can help” lino_noi.lib.tickets.ui.SuggestedTickets

  • And one thing which looks tiny but caused a rather big series of code changes: in Lino Care we need an action to say “I want to assign this ticket to me”. I noted that a field assigned_to was defined on both lino_noi.lib.tickets.models.Ticket and lino_xl.lib.cal.Event. This field is now defined in the new lino.modlib.users.mixins.Assignable mixin.

    Until now, if an application wanted to have the take action on its calendar events, it had to simply import a module lino_xl.lib.cal.workflows.take:

    from lino_xl.lib.cal.workflows import take

    This module no longer exists, and I moved away from this approach (it is still there for lino_xl.lib.cal.workflows.feedback). This approach is deprecated because it has at least one disadvantage: you cannot remove it once it has been imported.

    The new approach is the lino.modlib.users.mixins.Assignable mixin in combination with two new user roles lino.modlib.users.roles.Helper and lino.modlib.users.roles.AuthorshipTaker.

Bugfix : GridEdit.select_rows is now False (it was True)

Lino at FOSDEM 2017

I submitted a request for a devroom at FOSDEM 2017:

Title: Getting started with Lino

Description:

I would give a short overview of the Lino framework, write a few example applications, and if participants bring ideas, maybe we will create a new application from scratch. Participants can get started on their own by reading http://www.lino-framework.org/dev/ before the event and get further support during FOSDEM.

Coordinator’s affinity to the topic of the devroom:

Luc is the author of the framework

Why does it fit FOSDEM:

Lino is a young expanding framework being used on 5 production sites, 4 of them in Belgium. The framework is designed for professional developers who write customized database applications for their customers or employer.

Listing your projects

I removed the inv ls command and added a --list option to per_project. Because that’s where this functionality has its right place.