When a news article is approved, it gets delivered as an email to the
pgsql-announce mailinglist. It will render the markdown of the news
article into a HTML part of the email, and include the markdown raw as
the text part (for those unable or unwilling to read html mail).
For each organisation, a mail template can be specified. Initially only
two templates are supported, one "default" and one "pgproject" which is
for official project news. The intention is *not* to provide generic
templates, but we may want to extend this to certain related projects in
the future *maybe* (such as regional NPOs).
These templates are stored in templates/news/mail/*.html, and for each
template *all* images found in templates/news/mail/img.<template>/ will
be attached to the email. "Conditional image inclusion" currently not
supported.
To do CSS inlining on top of the markdown output, module pynliner is now
required (available in the python3-pynliner package on Debian).
A testing script is added as news_send_email.py in order to easier test
out templates. This is *not* intended for production sending, so it will
for example send unmoderated news. By sending, it adds it to the
outgoing mailqueue in the system, so unless the cronjob is set up to
send, nothing will happen until that is run manually.
Support is included for tagged delivery using pglister, by directly
mapping NewsTags to pglister tags.
This makes it possible to limit which organisations can use specific
tags in news, and verify those as news is submitted. Administrators can,
as always, override.
In passing also add a sortkey field to newstags to make them, well,
sortable.
This includes a number of new features:
* Move some moderation functionality into shared places, so we don't
keep re-inventing the wheel.
* Implement three-state moderation, where the submitter can edit their
item and then explicitly say "i'm done, please moderate this now".
This is currently only implemented for News, but done in a reusable
way.
* Move moderation workflow to it's own set of URLs instead of
overloading it on the general admin interface. Admin interface remains
for editing things, but these are now separated out into separate
things.
* Do proper stylesheet clearing for moderation of markdown fields, using
a dynamic sandboxed iframe, so it's not ruined by the /admin/ css.
* Move moderation email notification into dedicated moderation code,
thereby simplifying the admin subclassing we did which was in some
places quite fragile.
* Reset date of news postings to the date of their approval, when
approved. This avoids some annoying ordering issues.
Instead of a weirdly located "hover over the checkbox to get a
description" message, put the actual description underneath the
checkboxes. This removes the need for javascript for it, and make the
description a lot more readily available.
This applies only to news tags for now, since that's the only use of
described checkboxes, but hopefully it will make those more clear to
people submitting.
In passing, fix how help_text for multi-checkbox field is shown -- it
was previously shown almost as part of the field name itself, making it
very hard to make out. Now make it look like all other form field help
texts.
This lets us separate things like project news from other OSS and from
commercial postings, for example, allowing for people to subscribe to
different feeds with just the parts they are interested in.
Once a twitter account has been registered (using the twitter_register
management command), the twitter_post command wills start posting all
new news to twitter, once they are approved. It will only post news from
the past 7 days to avoid accidentally flooding with old news.
This appears to have become dependent on a django setting that we no
longer set -- and it's best to have a predictable format regardless.
Most things on the frontpage used the standard format, but not news,
leading to an annoyingly inconsistent view.
We were already using signals for everything except delete, and even
in our old version of django the delete signal exists (it didn't exist
when this code was first written).
Django doesn't really like models to be OOP like this, so keeping PgModel
would cause issues with upcoming changes in django 1.8. Using simple functions
is easier, and the actual functionality is replicated straight off.
This allows all models inherited from PgModel to specify which
URLs to purge by either setting a field or defining a function
called purge_urls, at which point they will be purged whenever
the save signal is fired.
Also implements a form under /admin/purge/ that allows for manual
purging. This should probably be extended in the future to show
the status of the pgq slaves, but that will come later.
Includes a SQL function that posts the expires to a pgq queue. For
a local deployment, this can be replaced with a simple void function
to turn off varnish purging.
"submitter", thus making it possible for a single person to manage
multiple organisations, as well as for a single organisation to have
multiple different manages.
Re-hook events and news items to use organisation of the submitter
instead of the user who did the submission. (product listings already
did this)
