Person inbox handler:
- Invite: Parse and insert to inbox
- Grant: Parse and insert to inbox
Repo/Deck/Loom inbox handler:
- Invite: Parse and remember as Collab record in DB for later
- Accept: Send a Grant (and remember it in DB)
Along with inviteC and acceptC, the Invite->Accept->Grant flow is now fully
federated, yay!
What's missing is UI for actually using it. Coming soon.
This is such a huge patch, it's probably impossible to tell what it does by
looking at the code. One thing is clear: It changes *everything* :P so here's
an overview:
- There are now 5 types of actors, each having its own top-level route
- So projects, repos, etc. are no longer "under" sharers
- Actor routes are now based on their KeyHashid, there are no "idents" anymore,
i.e. URLs look random and don't contain user or repo names
- No sharers anymore; people and groups are distinct entities not sharing a
common namespace or anything like that
- Project has been renamed to Deck and it simply means a ticket tracker; repos
are no longer "under" projects
- In addition to Person, Group, Repo and Deck, there's a new actor type Loom,
which is a patch tracker; i.e. Repo actors don't manage MRs anymore
- All C2S and S2S is temporarily disabled, because huge changes to the whole
code are required and I'll do them gradually in the next patches
- Since form-based actions are implemented using C2S, they're disabled as well,
so Vervis is now essentially read-only
- Some views have been temporarily removed, e.g. repo history and commit view
- A huge set of DB migrations has been added to adapt the DB to these changes;
I haven't tested them yet on a read DB so there may be errors there; I'll fix
them in the next patches if I find any (probably going to test on the main
instance where Vervis itself is hosted...)
- Some modules got tech upgrades, e.g. LocalActor became a higher-kinded type
and a similar pattern is probably relevant for several other types
- There's an 'Actor' entity in the DB schema now, and all 5 actor types use it
for common things like inbox and outbox
- Although inbox and outbox are used only by Actor, so essentially could be
removed, I haven't removed them; that's because I wonder if at some point
users can have a tree of inboxes much like in email; I don't have an excuse
for Outbox, but anyway, leaving them as is for now
- Workflows, roles and collaborators are partially removed/unused until I
figure out a sane federated way to provide these features
- Since repo routes don't contain a "sharer" anymore, SSH URIs are now simpler,
they already look like user@host/repo regardless of who "controls" that repo
Ugh, that module is such a horrible mess... I hope to turn it soon into
something sane. Is there some generic non-clumsy way restructure the AP
parser/encoder API?
For now, making these ugly changes to support the represenation of
Create {TicketTracker}, which I'm about to implement.
Before, Push activities were being ignored by all inboxes. I just forgot to add
code to handle them. Now, person inboxes accept them if they're about a
relevant repo (i.e. a repo of which the user is a remote follower; remote
collaboration would be relevant too, but it's not implemented yet).
Before this patch, if you ran more than 1 instance as the same OS user, they'd
use the same config file path and overwrite it and cause post hooks to have
errors due to wrong config being used.
In Darcs, any command can have a post hook (and a pre hook), and the hook
command can be set using a command-line option to the darcs command that you
run. So, in the Vervis SSH server, if we add a --posthook option when running
`darcs apply` to apply remotely received patches, we get a chance to process
the patch data much like in the git post-receive hook.
The setup this patch creates is similar to the git one: It writes a
_darcs/prefs/defaults file to all Darcs repos, and that defaults file sets the
posthook line for `darcs apply`. The posthook line simply executes the actual
hook program written in Haskell.
The current hook program is a one-liner that prints a line to stdout, so every
time you `darcs push` you can tell the hook got executed. The next step is to
implement the actual hook logic, by reading patch data from the environment
variable in which Darcs puts it.
Here's how it works:
- When Vervis starts, it writes a config file and it writes post-receive hooks
into all the repos it manages
- When a git push is accepted, git runs the post-receive hook, which is a
trivial shell script that executes the actual Haskell program implementing
the hook logic
- The Haskell hook program generates a Push JSON object and HTTP POSTs it to
Vervis running on localhost
- Vervis currently responds with an error, the next step is to implement the
actual publishing of ForgeFed Push activities
There used to be project roles and repo roles, and they were separate. A while
ago I merged them, and there has been a single role system, used with both
repos and projects. However the table names were still "ProjectRole" and things
like that. This patch renames some tables to just refer to a "Role" because
there's only one kind of role system.
* Repo collab now supports basic default roles developer/user/guest like
project collab does
* User/Anon collab for repos and projects are now stored as fields instead of
in dedicated tables, there was never a need for dedicated tables but I didn't
see that before
* Repo push op is now part of `ProjectOperation`
* `RepoRole` and related code has been entirely removed, only project roles
remain and they're used for both repos and projects
* This is the first not-totally-trivial DB migration in Vervis, it's automatic
but please be careful and report errors
I used this chance to make some name changes, add some utils, tweak some
imports, remove more `setTitle`s and so on. I also made person, repo,
key and project creation forms verify CI-uniqueness.
I decided to add some safety to routes:
- Use dedicated newtypes
- Use CI for the CI-unique DB fields
Since such a change requires so many changes in many source files, this
is also a chance to do other such breaking changes. I'm recording the
change gradually. It won't build until I finish, so for now don't waste
time trying to build the app.
