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AMY releases v1.7 and v1.7.1

After another two weeks of development and two weeks of delays, we’re finally releasing AMY v1.7 and a bugfix v1.7.1. This post is a joint changelog for both of them.

Release v1.7

This release is especially interesting since:

  1. it includes mostly Aditya’s and Chris’ PRs
  2. it includes two big PRs containing the biggest part of Aditya’s and Chris’ Summer projects.

New features

  • Chris Medrela helped check for missing migrations in automated continuous integration service Travis-CI
  • Chris Medrela sped up Travis-CI checks of AMY’s test suite by using a cache directory
  • Aditya Narayan as part of his Summer work added titles and URLs to task objects in AMY (useful feature for PyData conference integration)
  • Aditya Narayan changed form for creating new events so that admins can assign themselves to a new event while creating it
  • Aditya Narayan added a Sponsorship model to AMY and integrated it with AMY (we can now track sponsors for events)
  • Aditya Narayan migrated Host to Organization: it fixed some naming inconsistencies
  • in v1.6 we dropped support for numerical event IDs to rely only on slugs (e.g. 2016-08-13-Krakow or 2017-01-xx-Boston), now Aditya Narayan cleaned some remains left in the code from before dropping the support
  • I added support for cancelled tag used to mark events supposed to happen but not happening eventually
  • Chris Medrela added instructor training workflow, ie. huge part of AMY used for instructor training
  • Aditya Narayan added a feature for importing people, events, tasks from PyData conference site in a comfortable way

Bug fixes

  • Chris Medrela tracked and fixed an error in part of AMY responsible for allowing users to log in with other credentials than user/password (currently: GitHub login)
  • I fixed an API error occuring in some views (endpoints) when using CSV or YAML return format
  • Chris Medrela added access to AMY for people in invoicing group
  • Chris Medrela replaced entity — with actual char —
  • Aditya Narayan added a contact field on Sponsorship model
  • Chris Medrela fixed issue with user social integration with GitHub getting out of sync
  • I fixed JavaScript code responsible for generating dates (it was generating e.g. 2016-8-3, it’s now generating 2016-08-03)

Release v1.7.1

This release contains mostly bug fixes for features we added in v1.7 :-)

Bug fixes

  • Chris Medrela removed an overlooked debugging message alert in one of the views
  • Aditya Narayan added a cancel button to almost all the forms in AMY
  • I added a message to “Apply for Instructor Training” page saying that people cannot register for Fall 2016 open-access training anymore
  • Aditya Narayan fixed “Import from URL” not working on workshop acceptance page
  • Chris Medrela fixed some validation issue in one of training-related forms
  • Chris Medrela added access to admin dashboard in AMY to trainers

New features

  • Chris Medrela added a command line tool for importing trainees progress from previous data format into AMY