CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Summary of most notable changes in Brainfock project code. Changelog entries usually are split into Features, Fixes and Style tweaks sections. When makes sense, items in these section may be subdivided by application component (e.g. Server, API, iOS Client).

15 Jun 2016; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.28.0:

• Add SQL update files, see server/db-migrations - each release that has db schema changes (and oh there will be some) will include SQL file with respective name that should be ran once for upgrades.

Breaking

• Rename app's redux actions from topic_actions to topicActions

Features

• List users of a topic
• Invite users to topics (basic)

Fixes

• Missing model UserWorkspace
• Tests

30 May 2016; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.27.0 - public code release:

• Update `Loopback``
• Provide license, copyright info
• Add SQL DB schema file: src/branfock_install.sql - run it once for installation

Features

• Admin: add form to create new user accounts
• Add Special:Index support for project's Wikis

Style & UI tweaks

• Add active section/module/project label to main navigation bar
• Add basic "Opportunities" page

Fixes

• Empty project menu

15 Mar 2016; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.26.0:

• Add customizable terms to topics/issues (priority etc.)
• Improve tests stack
• Improve access control & security
• Add full Wiki support for context topics (projects etc.)
• Add simple workspaces management page to admin module
• Add dynamic & customizable menu for context topics (projects etc.)

10 Nov 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.25.0:

06 Nov 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.24.0:

01 Nov 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.23.0:

29 Oct 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.22.0:

• Add admin module

  Module takes advantage of require.ensure and does not load module files unless client requested them.

• Add workspaces module, using same techniques as in admin module

• Add script to initiate users (Demo data)

  To run, do:

  $ node src/sever/bin/initiateUsers.js

  or

  $ NODE_ENV=development node src/sever/bin/initiateUsers.js

• Add dynamic route resolver for root 'workspace' page, e.g. http://brianfock.org/brainfock

• Handle global errors (db connection, auth etc.) and present to user

• Improve isomorphic data fetch

• Tweak watermark Brainfock logo size

• Add member model (useful for admin section)

• Add users actions

• Add hotkey ctrl+s while editing wiki page

• Add "Create Workspace" page, utilizing redux-form (non-immutable, only suitable for simple forms)

• Add workspace reducer & action

• Modify workspace ACL to allow Admin role to CREATE

• Add reserved workspace namespaces config & validation & add names of all root modules to this list

• Add 'before save' hook to Topic model's inherit workspaceId from contextTopicId

• Modify topic group permalink template variables:

  • /:id/ - for topic Id;
  • /:topic_key/ - for contextTopicKey of a topic;
  • /:board_key/ - for contextTopicKey of parent topic (e.g. board or project);
  • /:context_id/ - for contextTopicId (link to context topic, e.g. project or board id);
  • /:namespace/ - topic workspace namespace.

• Loader component: Add option to render line-progress bar only, without loading label

• Add server data fetch for workspace homepage, fired by @fetch decorator and is isomorphic

25 Oct 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.21.0:

• Modify baseUrl app config property to store full base url with protocol and trailing slash
• Modify server-side rendering and re-factor stack
• Update project structure
• Add workspace API:
  • api/workspaces/count
  • api/workspaces/[NAMESPACE]/topics
  • api/workspaces/[NAMESPACE]/topics/[TOPIC_KEY]
  • api/workspaces/[NAMESPACE]/topics/[TOPIC_ID]
  • api/workspaces/[NAMESPACE]/topics/[TOPIC_KEY]/topics
  • api/workspaces/[NAMESPACE]/topics/[TOPIC_KEY]/topics/[GROUP_KEY]/[TOPIC_NUM]
  • api/workspaces/[NAMESPACE]/topics/[TOPIC_KEY]/topics/count
• Modify workspace API: allow to find workspace by namespace, e.g. api/workspaces/brainfock
• Add topics relation on workspaces with nestRemoting, see details at http://blog.brainfock.org/2015/10/23/loopback-tip-of-the-day-nest-remoting/
• Add validation of unique topic key in a workspace
• Modify topic before save: set groupSchemeId for root topics to default group scheme if no value is provided by user
• Add topic property groupSchemeId
• Modify before save hook - populate namespace value when only workspaceId is provided
• Add support to create root topics (e.g. project, discussion board, blog etc.)
• Add delete feature to topic;
• Add RawTopic model accessing topic db table for operations that are not supported by MYSQL views (e.g. delete topic via API since you can't delete from topic view table

Fixes

• Fix: form fields (scheme) is not updated when switching between modules
• Fix: topics list API does not respond on empty database
• Fix: simple form factory's react-select inputs are not working
• Fix: new topic dialog form buttons are not visible on a smaller screens

Web Client

• SimpleFormFactory's RemoteSelectField component: add endpointQueryString property, that works together with endpoint and represents filter property key for search query, e.g. filter[where][summary]
• TopicFieldsHandler: add field props resolver for workspaceId
• Improve all topic lists (projects, issues, boards) with reusable components
• Use new server-side fetching with @fetch decorator
• Add HOC wrapper for fetching component data
• Add preview to project settings page demonstrating how item will look like in a common list
• Re-factor various topics lists (project, project issues & boards, global borads)
• Add reusable master-detail component for topics
• Update material-ui dep version
• Change Brainfock project website link to Brainfock:About Wiki page
• Add component for empty boards list
• Add component for empty projects list

Style & UI tweaks

• Modify main side nav to be open & docked at homepage
• Add Brainfock logo watermark to the bottom of a page
• Add linear progress bar and align loading placeholder to the center

20 Oct 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.20.0:

Features

• Allow to change topic status via workflow operations.

Backend

• Add author & owner to topic relations.
• Add workflow-related models.
• Apply initial workflow stage for topic on creation. Stage is resolved based on workflow for topic type in effective scheme.
• Save current user as submittedBy value in topic (in addition to ownerId)
• Topic groupId value is now stored in topic table and is required.

Web Client

• /:namespace/:board_id/:group_key/:id route to View topic in a group by topic num (ordered)
• Add "Sign in" link for non-authenticated users
• Add highlight of active topic in project/issues list (see setCurrentTopicMarker action)
• Add material-ui elements to login page
• Add user nav menu with "Logout" and "My account" buttons
• Better & cleaner topic details page
• Improve error handling - show server error message on login
• Improve logout UX
• Master-detail view in project issues list
• New Discussion Boards module for projects, mostly to demonstrate different topic groups/types.
• Tweak me page - add header with actual username & email, placeholder for features to come and sidenote
• Wiki Style tweak: remove unnecessary top padding

API

• New extra.operations filter to populate property with all available operations (if requested). To add operations to server response, provide extra.operations filter: api/topics/1234?filter[extra][operations]
• New endpoint to execute topic workflow operation: api/topics/123/runOperation
• Set groupId when topic is saved if createGroup is provided in request as an alias to TopicGroup.groupKey.

Fixes

• Handling of checked/unchecked mui.Checkbox component in FormFactory, new topic form and project settings form.
• Incomplete CurrentUser data in client on login.
• afterRemote hooks on topic.
• Usage of react-select (value property is required).
• Switch back to material-ui and dump temporary material-ui-io package.
• ... and many smaller fixes

13 Oct 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.19.0:

Features

API

• Add new topic REST API endpoint api/topics/:contextTopicKey/formFields

  Load fields for topic create form screen. Available fields are based on topic type, group and group parent (if any), effective screen scheme (currently supports default scheme), and screen configuration (screen_fields in configured order). Currently, only system fields are available, but custom fields are in TODO.

• Find topics by their contextTopicKey, eg. /api/topics/BF

• REST API GET topics/count (filters supported via ?where[prop]=value)

• Allow to access related topic of a topic (api/topics/someTopic123/topics), respecting access control (find & count methods)

Server

• Introduce Workspaces back into Brainfock. Workspaces have namespace, owner and permission settings just like any other topic
• Improve server rendering: fetch data based on components' resolveData`` method (implemented for Wiki` pages)
• Extend Topics database table view to include wfStage & wfStatus values
• Populate Entity for Topic on creation
• Production-ready datasources config (ENV's must be set, see tech readme)
• Wiki: add guest read access, provide document title (SEO), improve page save & update (backend)
• API to load available filters for topics group
• Add lacking models (TopicsGroup, Schemes etc.)
• Store configuraiton fo topic group schemes & fields schemes in Database

Web client

• Project settings page
• Project issues page
• Add bower config
• Add Google Analytics to environment-friendly config
• Add simple form factory component to build basic forms' UIs (based on api/topics/*/formFields data)
• Add form for creating new topic (in project/issues)
• Wiki: recognize internal links and navigate with react-router on a client-side
• Simple form factory for generating forms based on props
• setup catching IO comments once per app

Fixes

• API does not return contentRendered after updateAttributes operation (disappearing text after saving existing WikiPage)
• Fix creating record of a new wiki page when it had namespace in it
• Fix assets path for statics

Style tweaks

• Adjust grids and lists of topics & topic issues
• Switch top navigation bar background from black to light grey
• Add LESS stylesheets to project (some may need a cleanup)
• Remove unnecessary padding in page-with-nav component and make it full-width

28 Sept 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.18.0:

• Basic boards module, topics component
• Topic/entity comments (with sockets)
• Client API service helper

• fix infinite loop bug

26 Sept 2015; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.17.0:

• Update to new Este dev stack, adding new react-router (1.0.x), React 0.14 (beta), React Redux, better hot reload for Webpack
• Port wiki module to 0.17.0

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.16.0:

• Drop Yii backend support, introduce Node.js/Loopback backend app;
• Change project structure
• Login with actual Loopback API, using tokens and storing token in cookies (for client);
• @checkAuth decorator, see client/components/check-auth.js

• bump version

Changelog for older version of Brainfock, before PHP -> Node.js migration.

Please note: Many of backend features available in versions under 0.15.* (PHP/Yii backend) may not be available in newer version of Brainfock app. These entries are left here for history and as a "todo"" reference. Some of features in version under 0.16 must be ported to new app.

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.15.0:

• Workflows, Workflow operations and stages (database tables, PHP backend to handle workflow transitions)

• Improve Wiki special "Category" namespace

2 Dec 2014; Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.14.0:

• Moving to React.js-powered client! Backbone client deprecated and dropped
• Introduce "Topics" db scheme

• improve Wiki: add wiki links, autolinking (Crosslinks with [[SomePage]])
• improve Wiki: add special "Categories" type of namespace, that will automatically include list of pages linked to this "Category" in footer of a page
• improve Wiki parser, add new Markdown parser
• improve wiki render: add tag, example: <nowiki>[[WikiHelp]]</nowiki> → [[WikiHelp]]

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.13.0:

• admin module for account owner

• [#59] Add comments to milestones
• apply new (reusable) comments client view controller for planner, tickets & messages app modules

• add "updated ticket milestone" stream event

• improve project team list

• new user notification - when user is invited to project

• New ticket form: close form only if it's not draft save (for autosave)
• adjust new ticket form
• l10n (join)
• working on multitennancy
• • fix app login page when user is required to enter captcha

• mention user in ticket titles (UI only)

• improve global signup process
• improve filter helper, make milstones filterable
• improve filters on list of users
• completed milestones are not overdue/nearing
• minor topic template adjustment

• navbar: allow dynamic menu options for user nav (can be added by modules, see admin module)

• navbar about window - add app version & build info
• main nav: add support of dynamic items
• user notification are now moved to separate (backbone marionette) module.
• fix: correct handling of change of checkboxes in forms
• work in progress: navigation, superListView
• [#85] Bug: can not delete milestone
• [#71] Unify comments module - now it is reusable view components
• bug: error when deleting comment
• allow to comment project message by ENTITY
• improve forms - submit by pressing enter, not refresh page
• send form on enter
• Ticket form: dynamically update milestones options when project is changed
• update visualsearch

• remove projects dropdown form header nav
• turn off using of built version of app (has issues with some backgrid plugins, working on it)

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.12.0:

• JS client application modules

• improve notifications delivery
• forums: add "atMentioned" plugin
• fix project users listing
• Comment: save {$this->text} as a first comment to the topic
• [#62] Pull user notifications and show to client
• i18n improvement for navbar
• user notifications: mark as read all notificaitons of same handler for same entity
• improve comment deletion: cleanup related notifications
• add isDevEnv() global helper
• delete user notificaitons for tickets & models when those are deleted
• user notificaiton ui improements
• improve user notifications panel, add live notifications
• improve how notifications pull for user
• fix creating a new project
• improve projects dropdown
• improve user notifications dropdown ui
• improve project activity stream
• [#68] Space owner: allow to delete space
• improve navbar - render space part separately
• improve notifications dropdown CSS
• fix workspaces dropdown bug (duplicates)

• make developer's machines not cache static files

• cleanup notificaiton if it's subject/entity is deleted
• setting up Grunt
• prepare project for grunt tasks - move all dynamic templates to static files

• grunfile.js
• add account name & public flag

• fix incoming date value parser
• make pace loader plugin only work when we call it (not evey ajax request)
• • console command to clear tasks deleted more than 30 days ago
• global "tasks" page is under development, make "tasks" menu available only for dev env
• improve task sorting (client)
• improve workspace tasks module
• fix navbar project dropdown
• improving "Tasks" module

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.11.0:

• introduce app accounts concept - account is "billable" unit

• [#56] Only Account owner and account admins (managers) should be able to create Spaces
• [#30] Add MarkDown for project description
• hotfix: migraitons to install notififcaiton & notificaiton d3elivery
• • notifications for forum messages
• porting changes from cloud_accounts branch
• update workspace creation
• improve access control - only admin and manager can create workspaces
• update user access validaiton for when listing tasts/projects tasks improve access validation for account owners etc.
• add filter to normalize data coming form backbone forms (it sends non-standard Checkbox values etc.)
• fix moving projects across lists at workspace dashboard screen
• Ticket details panel : allow to change priority; better empty milestone

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.10.0:

• notification system
• notification i18n
• notification delivery system

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.9.3:

• update select2 lib/plugin
• tickets list: filters are visible right away
• [#31] Datepicker - make it obvious that user can change years/months
• fix list filters not being visually applied on first load
• "task" link in project menu has default filters now (open & in progress tickets)
• improve app navbar & space menu
• update select2 jquery plugin
• adjust select2 plugin styles

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.9.2:

• UI design, making things simpler

• send notifications to everybody who's watching task
• automatically track tasks by author and assignee
• improve entity_watch workflow, add subscribe_via description field

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.9.1:

• fix EntityWatchBehavior (when deleting "Watch" relation)
• adjust Task model - user_watch attribute rules

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.9.0:

• New CActiveRecord behavior - EntityWatchBehavior
• allow user to subscribe to tasks

• improve project/tasks API

• [#40] Add ability to mention people and other models in comments
• [#44] Posting new comment: send notificaitons to users who are mentioned in text
• new WkdEmailTemplater helper component to helpt working with centralized email templates
• [#45] Setup & polish email notification users are getting after ticket comment

• send comment permalink in comments mention notification

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.8:

• fix milestones date saving

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.7:

• list view - request available filter options from server [#41] Tasks: fix status filter

• improve TotalOpen_Tasks, Open_Tasks relations on Project model
• improve Total_Tasks, TotalOpen_Tasks relations on Multistone model
• improve projects dropdown (reset only when space is changed)
• remove nprogress js plugin
• fix milestones js model/form schema & saving of due_date field
• bug fix: when milestone is reset in details view, changes are not reflected in main list
• improve milestones detials page
• tasks list item - impvoe archive dialog texts to reflect what's really happening
• imprpve milestone details page
• add due+date field to ticket view page

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.6:

• add new spinner/inline progress loader

• hide sidebar on index tasks list
• improve workspace.js model relataions
• fix project links in main project dropdown menu
• improve sidebar for projects: pull projects list only when user opens
• menu first time

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.5.1:

• fix geo locations models

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.5:

• improve ReadAction.php and UpdateAction.php - return ApiAttributes

• add new progress plugin (pace) and improve visual progress on most grids (tickets etc.)
• Milestones list: add progress bar

• improve superList ui - make imrpotant columns of same width
• improve CSS for ui-super-list, clean up, add table header
• improve superList UI when page is resized or dom is changed
• [#36] Bug: can not delete forum topic comment

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.4.2:

• CSS fix fir collapsed sidebar

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.4.1:

• improve app layout for smaller screens
• CSS cleanup

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.4:

[#28] Bug: parmalink to project/message topic does not work

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.3:

[#27] Messages:: can not load details of a topic

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.2:

[#24] Tasks module: allow to change milestone [#25] Tasks module: show only tasks user has access to

• overall improvement of app/js

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.1:

• Task::withProjectAccess() - scope to filter out only tickets that user has access to

• Tasks statuses options are now returned by server for each task

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.8.0:

• Tasks module

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.11:

• rename uk-uk locale to correct "ru-uk" local name (fixes i18n issues in Ukrainian app locale)

• Ukrainian l10n file for jquery.timeago plugin

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.10:

• [#11] Project settings: increase max size of [about] field, add visual characters counter

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.9:

• improve user first login
• update user spaces list when user accepts new project invite

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.8:

• UserEventWatch model

• allow for bigger project description
• improve tickets form (add visual maxlength counter)
• improve dock form l10n
• do not render details panel on model sync - it interrupts inline editing flow
• css/ui cleanup & custom TODC bootstrap adjustment
• space dashboard/project deletion l10n (ru, uk)
• confirm dialog fix

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.7:

• new common confirm view with customizable buttons set
• tickets: copy issue title & number to clipboard
• suggest page refresh after language settings has been changed
• users i10n (uk)

• Unite super_list_view & detail_panel_view for tasks
• user settings l10n (ru)

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.6:

• add system event for WebUser:onAfterTokenValidationSuccess

• improve first login experience for new users
• app recover password form is now linked tn frontend
• app login page look & feel
• fix bootstrap 2.3 PHP from component to show correct errors styles in vertical form
• fix assets names
• improve login workflow for new users

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.5:

• allow user to switch application language

• rename "ua" locale to "uk" (correct name)

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.4:

• allow user to change password & email (partially)
• user dashboard - user settings form, password & email

• improve backbone-forms datepicker editor
• team list: show icon next to user that are invited but not yet joined a project
• favicon added to root to prevent default browser's behavior 404 error

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.3:

• project settings module (page)
• project i18n nls files

• update swif-tmailer app component
• postdeploy script improved
• code & files cleanup
• improve application shim definition

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.2:

• allow to toggle sidebar
• cleanup

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.1:

• improve project user invites system (backend & frontend)

• activity stream when project created
• user dashboard: visual counter on how many invites user has

• improve navbar
• improve user dashborad
• open user dashboard in a modal
• improve ticket details page load (sidebar no longer disappears ranodmly)
• improve project dashboard activity pagination and live update feed
• improve project dashboard activity pagination
• activity feed backend improvement
• bug: invite empty user

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.7.0:

• improve project user invites system (backend & frontend)

• EntityBehavior: allow to override entity className (to prevent wrong class names for extended classes)
• backgrid added

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.6.0:

• change how App.active project is changed: App.projects.cursor.set(model|options)
• new default set of task statuses: new, open, in progress, closed
• Milestones management
• add milestones options for tickets & filters

• stream events for message board (when topic created)

• separate tasks lists for: active, archived and deleted items
• submenu for sidebar

• update backbone.relations
• improvement on how space & projects models & collecitons work together
• improve app's url handling for Backbone.History
• automatically clean up stream events for deleted models
• entity access improved

• reusable super_list details_pane view

• dock panel improved (allow to remove panels, see js view file)

• reusable backbone-forms datepicker js component

• cleanup

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.5.1:

• improved access control over project stream feed - user will see only event related to entities he has access to

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.5.0:

• entity access introduced
• cast stream event when new message topic is created
• new project activiy feed

• jquery timeago i18n (dynamic, using u18n! module)
• fix filter helper - model should match any of array filters, but it has to match each selected filter at least one parameter
• css/html/js cleanup
• better filter panel

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.4.6:

• fixed bug in list view - newly added tickets were not firing events; from now, newly created models via user form should raise 'created' event

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.4.5:

• css & layout for event/comment feed on task details page

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.4.4:

• "live" polling of new comments at tickets comments

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.4.3:

• tickets: load up comments and activity blended together
• improvements of events system

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.4.2:

• update & fix nanoscroller on list views

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.4.1:

• comments for tickets

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.4.0:

• new activity stream event component logic & table structure
• added ModelEntityBehavior to deal with entity records outside of CommentableBehavior

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.3.1:

• improve users access validation on project/workspace level: user will only see project he owns, he has access to or that are in a space he owns (duh!)

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.3.0:

• invite users to projects

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.2.2:

• unified list view: app\www\app\js\views\common\superListView.js

• refactored tasks & message boards to use new superListView base view

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.2.1:

• tag saving for message board topics
• auto-post first comments when creating a new topic (message boards)
• bug fixes

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.2.0:

• comments for project message board
• new layout for project message board

• continued improvement of project message board module
• continued CSS/layout clean up
• display current app version & build name & time (bottom-left corner)

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.1.1:

• bringing order to CSS/layout regarding lists with details panel

Sergii Gamaiunov [email protected] v0.1.0:

• messages module