Currently, a new Release and Milestones must be manually entered through the Admin interface. This is a bit tedious and error prone.

Add a script to rrs/tools to create a new release (from e.g. a YAML file).

Such a YAML file might look like:

styhead.yml
release:
  plan: "OE-Core"
  name: 5.1
  start_date: 2024-04-30
  end_date: 2024-10-25
  milestones:
    - name: M1
      start_date: 2024-04-30
      end_date: 2024-05-31
    - name: M2
      start_date: 2024-06-03
      end_date: 2024-07-19
    - name: M3
      start_date: 2024-07-22
      end_date: 2024-09-06
    - name: M4
      start_date: 2024-09-09
      end_date: 2024-10-25


Unfortunately, it is non-trivial to add a django.forms.DateField (to create a Release or Milestone object via start_date and end_date fields). Somehow the check for length in truncate_charfield_values from layerindex/models.py is being called (even though it is a DateField? maybe this has to do with the Admin form showing a CharField next to the Caldendar widget?)


layers@shelllayers:/opt/layerindex$ ./rrs/tools/rrs_create_release_and_milestones.py --debug -f ./scripts/styhead.yml --dry-run
DEBUG: {'release': {'plan': 'OE-Core', 'name': 5.1, 'start_date': datetime.date(2024, 4, 30), 'end_date': datetime.date(2024, 10, 25), 'milestones': [{'name': 'M1', 'start_date': datetime.date(2024, 4, 30), 'end_date': datetime.date(2024, 5, 31)}, {'name': 'M2', 'start_date': datetime.date(2024, 6, 3), 'end_date': datetime.date(2024, 7, 19)}, {'name': 'M3', 'start_date': datetime.date(2024, 7, 22), 'end_date': datetime.date(2024, 9, 6)}, {'name': 'M4', 'start_date': datetime.date(2024, 9, 9), 'end_date': datetime.date(2024, 10, 25)}]}}
DEBUG: start_date: 2024-04-30 type(start_date): <class 'datetime.date'>
DEBUG: end_date: 2024-10-25 type(end_date): <class 'datetime.date'>
DEBUG: start_date: 2024-04-30 type(start_date): <class 'datetime.date'>
DEBUG: end_date: 2024-10-25 type(end_date): <class 'datetime.date'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/layerindex/./rrs/tools/rrs_create_release_and_milestones.py", line 177, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/layerindex/./rrs/tools/rrs_create_release_and_milestones.py", line 171, in main
    create_from_yaml_file( from_file=args.from_file, dryrun=args.dryrun )
  File "/opt/layerindex/./rrs/tools/rrs_create_release_and_milestones.py", line 158, in create_from_yaml_file
    create_release_and_milestones(plan, release, start_date, end_date, milestones, dryrun)
  File "/opt/layerindex/./rrs/tools/rrs_create_release_and_milestones.py", line 115, in create_release_and_milestones
    release_obj.save()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 814, in save
    self.save_base(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 861, in save_base
    pre_save.send(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 176, in send
    return [
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 177, in <listcomp>
    (receiver, receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named))
  File "/opt/layerindex/layerindex/models.py", line 37, in truncate_charfield_values
    if value and len(value) > field.max_length:
TypeError: object of type 'datetime.date' has no len()