- Fix major regression so that steps can submitted multiple times in
case of errors.
- Don't serve the welcome page (and other pages) only once. Show it
until action is an taken. This does not apply to the final step.
- Eliminate all coupling of one first boot step on another.
- Move first boot helper methods to __init__.py instead of middleware as
it is more generic than middleware.
- Implement caching the first boot state to avoid an SQL query on every
page load. The down side is that if first boot state is modified in
the backend DB outside Plinth, Plinth will need to be restarted to
catch the modified value.
- Mark some methods as private.
- Refactor middleware code for slightly more simplicity.
- Don't show sidebar in pagekite first boot step. Set width like other
pages.
The intent is to use the requests module and make HTTP requests instead
of the Django requests. This is probably a regression and this step
does not work without the change.
This can then be used by a privileged action to verify that packages
requested for installation are in fact valid. This slightly improves
security of those privileged actions.
After the recent cleanup, pagekite no longer shows description before
installation. Only after installation does it show the insturctions
about why it is needed. Also in the description {box_name} is not
substituted and there are incorrect escape sequences.
Revert this earlier change that causes these regressions.
This app rightfully belongs in system configuration section instead of
the application section. It is setup once and not used regularly. It
is not service but enabler for other services.
Currently menu items are shown in alphabetical order in applications and
no clear order in system configuration. This is done using static
weights for menu items based on English names that does not work for
other locales.
Sorting can't be done at the time of adding menu items as users of
multiple locales may use the interface at the same time.
Implement a sorting mechanism based on existing order as well as labels
of menu item. This allows the flexiblity of grouping menu items in
future as it may be need for system configuration. In case of help menu
Remove sort order for all modules except for help menu as here we want
that specific order.
- adapted all modules to not use views.ConfigurationView anymore
- removed templates that are not needed anymore
- no more implicit 'enabled' and 'get_status' functions in __init__.py files
- (more coherent/explicit use of Django functionality)
- The last part of the module import path is the module name. This also
becomes the Django app name. Apps names have to be unique. Hence,
there is no scope for two different modules with same name but
different load path to exist in the project.
- Most uses of list of loaded modules are dealing with app names instead
of full module load path. This is due to the fact that Django deals
with app names and not module paths.
- It is also somewhat clumsy to access a loaded module as we are
re-importing every time to get access module.
- Simplify all of the above by using app names are module identifiers
and maintaing an ordered dictionary of app names to loadded modules.
- Remove unused imports.
- Minor styling fixes.
Using brand name directly from configuration means that it can't be
easily translated. Instead use the translated brand name sent in my the
context processor.
- When the current configuration does not contain a port and we try to
set the port for the frontend server, it fails. This patch fixes
that.
- Minor styling and spelling fixes.
- Make sure that if port is not set for frontend, it will be set on
saving the form.
- To check whether a service is running does not require root
privileges. This can directly be done from a module without any
action.
- Since actions are allowed to be run using sudo, introducing
unnecessary sub-commands increases attack surface.
- Simple functions calls are unnecessarily being converted to command
line invocations and involve parsing response.
- There is a lot of repeated code because of this that can be
eliminated.
- To generalize this, we need to make all non-root system operations
directly from module instead of delegating to action commands.
- Merge actions/pagekite_util.py into plinth/modules/pagekite/util.py.
- Rename plinth/modules/pagekite/util.py to utils.py.
- Add python-augeus as dependency.
- Move actions/util.py to plinth/action_utils.py and update services
that use it.
- Rename _run() method to run() as it is being used publicly.
- Import the utils in a more conventional manner.
- Move all python2 bits to python3.
- For each application, add ./tests directory and __init__.py file
within it.
- Modify test controllers (coverage.py, runtests.py) to find the new
test directories for testing and coverage analysis.
- Move existing application-specific test modules (test_pagekite.py) to
the newly created directories.
