Stalker Changes¶

0.2.24¶

New: Repository instances now have a code attribute which is used for generating the environment variables where in previous versions the id attribute has been used which caused difficulties in transferring the data to a different installation of Stalker. Also to make the system backwards compatible, Stalker will still set the old id based environment variables. But when asked for an environment variable it will return the code based one. The code argument as usual has to be initialized on Repository instance creation. That’s why this version is slightly backwards incompatible and needs the database to be updated with Alembic (with the command alembic update head).
Fix: Repository methods is_in_repo and find_repo are now case insensitive for Windows paths.
Update: Updated Project class documentation and included information about what is going to be deleted or how the delete operation will be cascaded when a Project instance is deleted.

0.2.23¶

Update: Updated the setup.py to require psycopg2-binary instead of psycopg2. Also updated the configuration files for Docker and Travis. This changes the requirement of psycopg2 to psycopg2-binary, which will make it easier to get the installation to complete on e.g. CentOS 7 without requiring pg_config.

0.2.22¶

Fix: Fixed TaskJugglerScheduler.schedule() method to correctly decode byte data from sys.stderr to string for Python 3.x.
Fix: Fixed a couple of tests for TaskJuggler.
Update: Updated Classifiers information in setup.py, removed Python versions 2.6, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 from supported Python versions.
Fix: Removed Python 3.3 from TravisCI build which is not supported by pytest apparently.
Update: Updated TravisCI config and removed Python 2.6 and added Python 3.6.
Update: Added a test case for an edge usage of FilenameTemplate.
Update: Updated .gitignore file to ignore PyTest cache folder.
Update: Updated the License file to correctly reflect the project license of LGPLv3.
Update: Update copyright information.
New: Created make_html.bat for Windows.
New: Added support for Python wheel.

0.2.21¶

New: Switched from nose + unittest to pytest as the main testing framework (with pytest-xdist tests complete 4x faster).
New: Added DBSession.save() shortcut method for convenience which does an add or add_all (depending to the input) followed by a commit at once.
Update: Updated the about page for a more appealing introduction to the library.
New: Stalker now creates default StatusList for Project instances on database initialization.
Update: SQLite3 support is back. In fact it was newer gone. For simplicity of first time users the default database is again SQLite3. It was dropped for the sake of adding more PostgreSQL oriented features. But then it is recognized that the system can handle both. Though a two new Variant had to be created for JSON and Datetime columns.
Update: With the reintroduction of SQLite3, the new JSON type column in WorkingHours class has been upgraded to support SQLite3. So with SQLite3 the column stores the data as TEXT but seamlessly convert them to JSON when ORM loads or commits the data.
New: Added ConfigBase as a base class for Config to let it be used in other config classes.
Fix: Fixed testing.create_db() and testing.drop_db() to fallback to subprocess.check_call method for Python 2.6.
Fix: Fixed stalker.models.auth.User._validate_password() method to work with Python 2.6.
Update: Updated all of the tests to use pytest style assertions to support Python 2.6 along with 2.7 and 3.0+.
Fix: Fixed stalker.db.check_alembic_version() function to invalidate the connection, so it is not possible to continue with the current session, preventing users to ignore the raised ValueError when the alembic_version of the database is not matching the alembic_version of Stalker’s current version.

0.2.20¶

New: Added goods attribute to the Client class. To allow special priced Goods to be created for individual clients.
Fix: The WorkingHours class is now derived from Entity thus it is not stored in a PickleType column in Studio anymore. (issue: #44)
Update: Updated appveyor.yml to match travis.yml.

0.2.19¶

Update: Updated the stalker.config.Config.database_engine_settings to point the test database.
Fix: Fixed a bug in stalker.testing.UnitTestDBBase.setUp() where it was not considering the existence of the STALKER_PATH environment variable while doing the tests.
Update: Removed debug message from db.setup() which was revealing the database password.
Update: Updated the UnitTestDBBase, it now creates its own test database, which allows all the tests to run in an individual database. Thus, the tests can now be run in multiprocess mode which speeds things a lot.
Fix: Removed any module level imports of stalker.defaults variable, which can be changed by a Studio (or by tests) and should always be refreshed.
Update: Removed the module level import of the stalker.db.session.DBSession in stalker.db, so it is not possible to use db.DBSession anymore.
Update: The import statements that imports stalker.defaults moved to local scopes to allow runtime changes to the defaults to be reflected correctly.
Update: Added Python fall back mode to stalker.shot.Shot._check_code_availability() which runs when there is no database.
Update: stalker.models.task.TimeLog._validate_task() is now getting the Status instances from the StatusList that is attached to the Task instance instead of doing a database query.
Update: stalker.models.task.TimeLog._validate_resource() is now falling back to a Python implementation if there is no database connection.
Update: stalker.models.task.Task._total_logged_seconds_getter() is now hundreds of times faster when there is a lot of TimeLog instances attached to the Task.
Update: In stalker.models.task.Task class, methods those were doing a database query to get the required Status instances are now using the attached StatusList instance to get them.
Fix: A possible auto_flush is prevented in Ticket class.
Update: Version.latest_version property is now able to fall back to a pure Python implementation when there is no database connection.
Update: The default log level has been increased from DEBUG to INFO.
Update: In an attempt to speed up tests, a lot of tests that doesn’t need an active Database has been updated to use the regular unittest.TestCase instead of stalker.testing.TestBase and as a result running all of the tests are now 2x faster.
Fix: TimeLogs are now correctly reflected in UTC in a tj3 file.
Fix: Fixed a lot of tests which were raising Warnings and surprisingly considered as Errors in TravisCI.
Fix: to_tjp methods of SOM classes that is printing a Datetime object are now printing the dates in UTC.
Fix: Fixed stalker.models.auth.Permission to be hashable for Python 3.
Fix: Fixed stalker.models.auth.AuthenticationLog to be sortable for Python 3.
Fix: Fixed stalker.models.version.Version.latest_version property for Python 3.
Fix: Fixed tests of Permission class to check for correct exception messages in Python 3.
Update: Replaced the assertEquals and assertNotEquals calls which are deprecated in Python 3 with assertEqual and assertNotEquals calls respectively.
Fix: Fixed tests for User and Version classes to not to cause the id column is None warnings of SQLAlchemy to be emitted.

0.2.18¶

Update: Support for DB backends other than Postgresql has been dropped. This is done to greatly benefit from a code that is highly optimized only for one DB backend. With This all of the tests should be inherited from the stalker.tests.UnitTestDBBase class.
New: All the DateTime fields in Stalker are now TimeZone aware and Stalker stores the DateTime values in UTC. Naive datetime values are not supported anymore. You should use a library like pytz to supply timezone information as shown below:
```
import datetime
import pytz
from stalker import db, SimpleEntity
new_simple_entity = SimpleEntity(
    name='New Simple Entity',
    date_created = datetime.datetime.now(tzinfo=pytz.utc)
)
```
Fix: The default values for date_created and date_updated has now been properly set to a partial function that returns the current time.
Fix: Previously it was possible to enter two TimeLogs for the same resource in the same datetime range by committing the data from two different sessions simultaneously. Thus the database was not aware that it should prevent that. Now with the new PostgreSQL only implementation and the ExcludeConstraint of PostgreSQL an IntegrityError is raised by the database backend when something like that happens.
Update: All the tests those are checking the system against an Exception is being raised or not are now checking also the exception message.
Update: In the TimeLog class, the raised OverBookedException message has now been made clear by adding the start and end date values of the clashing TimeLog instance.
Update: Removed the unnecessary computed_start and computed_end columns from Task class, which are already defined in the DateRangeMixin which is a super for the Task class.

0.2.17.6¶

Fix: Fixed a bug in ProjectMixin where a proper cascade was not defined and the Delete operations to the Projects table were not cascaded to the mixed-in classes properly.

0.2.17.5¶

Fix: Fixed the image_format attribute implementation in Shot class. Now it will not copy the value of Project.image_format directly on __init__ but instead will only store the value if the image_format argument in __init__ or Shot.image_format attribute is set to something.

0.2.17.4¶

Update: Updated the comment sections of all of the source files to correctly show that Stalker is LGPL v3 (not v2.1).

0.2.17.3¶

New: Added Shot.fps attribute to hold the fps information per shot.
Update: Added the necessary alembic revision to reflect the changes in the Version_Inputs table.

0.2.17.2¶

Fix: Fixed Version_Inputs table to correctly take care of DELETE``s on the ``Versions table. So now it is possible to delete a Version instance without first cleaning the Link instances that is related to that Version instance.
Update: Changed the id attribute name from info_id to log_id in AuthenticationLog class.
Update: Started moving towards PostgreSQL only implementation. Merged the DatabaseModelTester class and DatabaseModelsPostgreSQLTester class.
Fix: Fixed an autoflush issue in stalker.models.review.Review.finalize_review_set().

0.2.17.1¶

Fix: Fixed alembic revision

0.2.17¶

New: Added AuthenticationLog class to hold user login/logout info.
New: Added stalker.testing module to simplify testing setup.

0.2.16.4¶

Fix: Fixed alembic revision.

0.2.16.3¶

New: ProjectUser now also holds a new field called rate. The default value is equal to the ProjectUser.user.rate. It is a way to hold the rate of a user on a specific project.
New: Added the Invoice class.
New: Added the Payment class.
New: Added two simple mixins AmountMixin and UnitMixin.
Update: Good class is now mixed in with the new UnitMixin class.
Update: BudgetEntry class is now mixed in with the new AmountMixin and UnitMixin classes.

0.2.16.2¶

New: Group permissions can now be set on __init__() with the permissions argument.

0.2.16.1¶

Fix: As usual after a new release that changes database schema, fixed the corresponding Alembic revision (92257ba439e1).

0.2.16¶

New: Budget instances are now statusable.
Update: Updated documentation to include database migration instructions with Alembic.

0.2.15.2¶

Fix: Fixed a typo in the error message in User._validate_email_format() method.
Fix: Fixed a query-invoked auto-flush problem in Task.update_parent_statuses() method.

0.2.15.1¶

Fix: Fixed alembic revision (f2005d1fbadc), it will now drop any existing constraints before re-creating them. And the downgrade function will not remove the constraints.

0.2.15¶

New: db.setup() now checks for alembic_version before setting up a connection to the database and raises a ValueError if the database alembic version is not matching the current implementation of Stalker.
Fix: db.init() sets the created_by and updated_by attributes to admin user if there is one while creating entity statuses.
New: Created create_sdist.cmd and upload_to_pypi.cmd for Windows.
New: Project to Client relation is now a many-to-many relation, thus it is possible to set multiple Clients for each project with each client having their own roles in a specific project.
Update: ScheduleMixin.schedule_timing attribute is now Nullable.
Update: ScheduleMixin.schedule_unit attribute is now Nullable.

0.2.14¶

Fix: Fixed Task.path to always return a path with forward slashes.
New: Introducing EntityGroups that lets one to group a bunch of

``SimpleEntity``s together, it can be used in grouping tasks even if they are in different places on the project task hierarchy or even in different projects.

Update: Task.percent_complete is now correctly calculated for a Duration based task by using the Task.start and Task.end attribute values.
Fix: Fixed stalker.models.task.update_time_log_task_parents_for_end() event to work with SQLAlchemy v1.0.
New: Added an option called __dag_cascade__ to the DAGMixin to control cascades on mixed in class. The default value is “all, delete”. Change it to “save-update, merge” if you don’t want the children also be deleted when the parent is deleted.
Fix: Fixed a bug in Version class that occurs when a version instance that is a parent of other version instances is deleted, the child versions are also deleted (fixed through DAGMixin class).

0.2.13.3¶

Fix: Fixed a bug in Review.finalize_review_set() for tasks that are sent to review and still have some extra time were not clamped to their total logged seconds when the review set is all approved.

0.2.13.2¶

New: Removed msrp, cost and unit arguments from BudgetEntry.__init__() and added a new good argument to get all of the data from the related Good instance. But the msrp, cost and unit attributes of BudgetEntry class are still there to store the values that may not correlate with the related Good in future.

0.2.13.1¶

Fix: Fixed a bug in Review.finalize_review_set() which causes Task instances to not to get any status update if the revised task is a second degree dependee to that particular task.

0.2.13¶

New: Project instances can now have multiple repositories. Thus the repository attribute is renamed to repositories. And the order of the items in the repositories attribute is restored correctly.
New: stalker.db.init() now automatically creates environment variables for each repository in the database.
New: Added a new after_insert which listens Repository instance ``insert``s to automatically add environment variables for the newly inserted repositories.
Update: Repository.make_relative() now handles paths with environment variables.
Fix: Fixed TaskJugglerScheduler to correctly generate task absolute paths for PostgreSQL DB.
New: Repository.path is now writable and sets the correct path (linux_path, windows_path, or osx_path) according to the current system.
New: Setting either of the Repository.path, Repository.linux_path, Repository.windows_path, Repository.osx_path attributes will update the related environment variable if the system and attribute are matching to each other, setting the linux_path on Linux or setting the windows_path on Windows or setting the osx_path on OSX will update the environment variable.
New: Added Task.good attribute to easily connect tasks to ``Good``s.
New: Added new methods to Repository to help managing paths:
- Repository.find_repo() to find a repo from a given path. This is a class method so it can be directly used with the Repository class.
- Repository.to_os_independent_path() to convert the given path to a OS independent path which uses environment variables. Again this is a class method too so it can be directly used with the Repository class.
- Repository.env_var a new property that returns the related environment variable name of a repo instance. This is an instance property:
```
# with default settings
```
  repo = Repository(…) repo.env_var # should print something like “REPO131” which will be used
  
  # in paths as “$REPO131”
Fix: Fixed User.company_role attribute which is a relationship to the ClienUser to cascade all, delete-orphan to prevent AssertionErrors when a Client instance is removed from the User.companies collection.

0.2.12.1¶

Update: Version class is now mixed with the DAGMixin, so all the parent/child relation is coming from the DAGMixin.
Update: DAGMixin.walk_hierarchy() is updated to walk the hierarchy in Depth First mode by default (method=0) instead of Breadth First mode (method=1).
Fix: Fixed alembic_revision on database initialization.

0.2.12¶

Fix: Fixed importing of ProjectUser directly from stalker namespace.
Fix: Fixed importing of ClientUser directly from stalker namespace.
New: Added two new columns to the BudgetEntry class to allow more detailed info to be hold.
New: Added a new Mixin called DAGMixin to create parent/child relation between mixed in class.
Update: The Task class is now mixed with the DAGMixin, so all the parent/child relation is coming from the DAGMixin.
New: Added a new class called Good to hold details about the commercial items/services sold in the Studio.
New: Added a new class called PriceList to create price lists from Goods.

0.2.11¶

New: User instances now have a new attribute called rate to track their cost as a resource.
New: Added two new classes called Budget and BudgetEntry to record Project budgets in a simple way.
New: Added a new class called Role to manage user roles in different Departments, Clients and Projects.
New: User and Department relation is updated to include the role of the user in that department in a more flexible way by using the newly introduced Role class and some association proxy tricks.
New: Also updated the User to Project relation to include the role of the user in that Project by using an associated Role class.
Update: Department.members attribute is renamed to users (and removed the synonym property).
Update: Removed Project.lead attribute use Role instead.
Update: Removed Department.lead attribute use Role instead.
Update: Because the Project.lead attribute is removed, it is now possible to have tasks with no responsible.
Update: Client to User relation is updated to use an association proxy which makes it possible to set a Role for each User for each Client it is assigned to.
Update: Renamed User.company to User.companies as the relation is now able to handle more than one Client instances for the User company.
Update: Task Status Workflow has been updated to convert the status of a DREV task to HREV instead of WIP when the dependent tasks has been set to CMPL. Also the timing of the task is expanded by the value of stalker.defaults.timing_resolution if it doesn’t have any effort left (generally true for CMPL tasks) to allow the resource to review and decide if he/she needs more time to do any update on the task and also give a chance of setting the Task status to WIP by creating a time log.
New: It is now possible to schedule only a desired set of projects by passing a projects argument to the TaskJugglerScheduler.
New: Task.request_review() and Review.finalize() will not cap the timing of the task until it is approved and also Review.finalize() will extend the timing of the task if the total timing of the given revisions are not fitting in to the left timing.

0.2.10.5¶

Update: TaskJuggler output is now written to debug output once per line.

0.2.10.4¶

New: ‘@’ character is now allowed in Entity nice name.

0.2.10.3¶

New: ‘@’ character is now allowed in Version take names.

0.2.10.2¶

Fix: Fixed a bug in stalker.models.schedulers.TaskJugglerScheduler._create_tjp_file_content() caused by non-ascii task names.
Fix: Removed the residual RootFactory class reference from documentation.
New: Added to new functions called utc_to_local and local_to_utc for UTC to Local time and vice versa conversion.

0.2.10.1¶

Fix: Fixed a bug where for a WIP Task with no time logs (apparently something went wrong) and no dependencies using Task.update_status_with_dependent_statuses() will convert the status to RTS.

0.2.10¶

New: It is now possible to track the Edit information per Shot using the newly introduced source_in, source_out and record_in along with existent cut_in and cut_out attributes.

0.2.9.2¶

Fix: Fixed MySQL initialization problem in stalker.db.init().

0.2.9.1¶

New: As usual, after a new release, fixed a bug in stalker.db.create_entity_statuses() caused by the behavioral change of the map built-in function in Python 3.

0.2.9¶

New: Added a new class called Daily which will help managing Version outputs (Link instances including Versions itself) as a group.
New: Added a new status list for Daily class which contains two statuses called “Open” and “Closed”.
Update: Setting the Version.take_name to a value other than a string will now raise a TypeError.

0.2.8.4¶

Fix: Fixed SimpleEntity._validate_name() method for unicode strings.

0.2.8.3¶

Fix: Fixed str/unicode errors due to the code written for Python3 compatibility.
Update: Removed Task.is_complete attribute. Use the status “CMPL” instead of this attribute.

0.2.8.2¶

Fix: Fixed stalker.db.create_alembic_table() again to prevent extra row insertion.

0.2.8.1.1¶

Fix: Fixed stalker.db.create_alembic_table() function to handle the situation where the table is already created.

0.2.8.1¶

Fix: Fixed stalker.db.create_alembic_table() function, it is not using the alembic library anymore to create the alembic_version table, which was the proper way of doing it but it created a lot of problems when Stalker is installed as a package.

0.2.8¶

Update: Stalker is now Python3 compatible.
New: Added a new class called Client which can be used to track down information about the clients of Projects. Also added Project.client and User.company attributes which are referencing a Client instance allowing to add clients as normal users.
New: db.init() now creates alembic_version table and stamps the most recent version number to that table allowing newly initialized databases to be considered in head revision.
Fix: Fixed Version._format_take_name() method. It is now possible to use multiple underscore characters in Version.take_name attribute.

0.2.7.6¶

Update: Removed TimeLog._expand_task_schedule_timing() method which was automatically adjusting the schedule_timing and schedule_unit of a Task to total duration of the TimeLogs of that particular task, thus increasing the schedule info with the entered time logs.

But it was setting the schedule_timing to 0 in some certain cases and it was unnecessary because the main purpose of this method was to prevent TaskJuggler to raise any errors related to the inconsistencies between the schedule values and the duration of TimeLogs and TaskJuggler has never given a real error about that situation.

0.2.7.5¶

Fix: Fixed Task parent/child relationship, previously setting the parent of a task to None was cascading a delete operation due to the “all, delete-orphan” setting of the Task parent/child relationship, this is updated to be “all, delete” and it is now safe to set the parent to None without causing the task to be deleted.

0.2.7.4¶

Fix: Fixed the following columns column type from String to Text:
- Permissions.class_name
- SimpleEntities.description
- Links.full_path
- Structures.custom_template
- FilenameTemplates.path
- FilenameTemplates.filename
- Tickets.summary
- Wiki.title
- Wiki.content
and specified a size for the following columns:
- SimpleEntities.html_class -> String(32)
- SimpleEntities.html_style -> String(32)
- FilenameTemplates.target_entity_type -> String(32)
to be compatible with MySQL.
Update: It is now possible to create TimeLog instances for a Task with PREV status.

0.2.7.3¶

Fix: Fixed Task.update_status_with_dependent_statuses() method for a Task where there is no dependency but the status is DREV. Now calling Task.update_status_with_dependent_statuses() will set the status to RTS if there is no TimeLog for that task and will set the status to WIP if the task has time logs.

0.2.7.2¶

Update: TaskJugglerScheduler is now 466x faster when dumping all the data to TJP file. So with this new update it is taking only 1.5 seconds to dump ~20k tasks to a valid TJP file where it was around ~10 minutes in previous implementation. The speed enhancements is available only to PostgreSQL dialect for now.

0.2.7.1¶

Fix: Fixed TimeLog output in one line per task in Task.to_tjp().
New: Added TaskJugglerScheduler now accepts a new argument called compute_resources which when set to True will also consider Task.alternative_resources attribute and will fill Task.computed_resources attribute for each Task. With TaskJugglerScheduler when the total number of Task is around 15k it will take around 7 minutes to generate this data, so by default it is set to False.

0.2.7¶

New: Added efficiency attribute to User class. See User documentation for more info.

0.2.6.14¶

Fix: Fixed an autoflush problem in Studio.schedule() method.

0.2.6.13¶

New: Added Repository.make_relative() method, which makes the given path to relative to the repository root. It considers that the path is already in the repository. So for now, be careful about not to pass a path outside of the repository.

0.2.6.12¶

Update: TaskJugglerScheduler.schedule() method now uses the Studio.start and Studio.end values for the scheduling range instead of the hardcoded dates.

0.2.6.11¶

Update: Task.create_time_log() method now returns the created TimeLog instance.

0.2.6.10¶

Fix: Fixed an autoflush issue in Task.update_status_with_children_statuses() method.

0.2.6.9¶

Update: Studio.is_scheduling and Studio.is_scheduling_by attributes will not be updated or checked at the beginning of the Studio.schedule() method. It is the duty of the user to check those attributes before calling Studio.schedule(). This is done in this way because without being able to do a db commit inside Studio.schedule() method (which is the case with transaction managers which may be used in web applications like Stalker Pyramid) it is not possible to persist and thus use those variables. So, to be able to use those attributes meaningfully the user should set them. Those variables will be set to False and None accordingly by the Studio.schedule() method after the scheduling is done.

0.2.6.8¶

Fix: Fixed a deadlock in TaskJugglerScheduler.schedule() method related with the Popen.stderr.readlines() blocking the TaskJuggler process without being able to read the output buffer.

0.2.6.7¶

Update: TaskJugglerScheduler.schedule() is now using bulk inserts and updates which is way faster than doing it with pure Python. Use parsing_method (0: SQL, 1: Python) to choose between SQL or Pure Python implementation. Also updated Studio.schedule() to take in a parsing_method parameter.

0.2.6.6¶

Update: The cut_in, cut_out and cut_duration attribute behaviour and the attribute order is updated in Shot class. So, if three of the values are given, then the cut_duration attribute value will be calculated from cut_in and cut_out attribute values. In any case cut_out precedes cut_duration, and if none of them given cut_in and cut_duration values will default to 1 and cut_out will be calculated by using cut_in and cut_duration.

0.2.6.5¶

New: Entity to Note relation is now Many-to-Many. So one Note can now be assigned more than one Entity.
New: Added alembic revision for Entity_Notes table creation and data migration from Notes table to Entity_Notes table. So all notes are preserved.
Fix: Fixed Shot.cut_duration attribute initialization on Shot instances restored from database.
Fix: Fixed Studios.is_scheduling_by relationship configuration, which was wrongly referencing the Studios.last_scheduled_by_id column instead of Studios.is_scheduled_by_id column.

0.2.6.4¶

New: Added a Task.review_set(review_number) method to get the desired set of reviews. It will return the latest set of reviews if review_number is skipped or it is None.
Update: Removed Task.approve() it was making things complex than it should be.

0.2.6.3¶

Fix: Added Page to class_names in db.init().
Fix: Fixed TimeLog tjp representation to use bot the start and end date values instead of the start and duration. This is much better because it is independent from the timing resolution settings.

0.2.6.2¶

Fix: Fixed stalker.models.studio.schedule() method, and prevented it to call DBSession.commit() which causes errors if there is a transaction manager.
Fix: Fixed stalker.models._parse_csv_file() method for empty computed resources list.

0.2.6.1¶

New: stalker.models.task.TimeLog instances are now checking if the dependency relation between the task that receives the time log and the tasks that the task depends to will be violated in terms of the start and end dates and raises a DependencyViolationError if it is the case.

0.2.6¶

New: Added stalker.models.wiki.Page class, for holding a per Project wiki.

0.2.5.5¶

Fix: Review.task attribute now accepts None but this is mainly done to allow its relation to the Task instance can be broken when it needs to be deleted without issuing a database commit.

0.2.5.4¶

Update: The following column names are updated:
- Tasks._review_number to Tasks.review_number
- Tasks._schedule_seconds to Tasks.schedule_seconds
- Tasks._total_logged_seconds to Tasks.total_logged_seconds
- Reviews._review_number to Reviews.review_number
- Shots._cut_in to Shots.cut_in
- Shots._cut_out to Shots.cut_out
Also updated alembic migration to create columns with those names.
Update: Updated Alembic revision 433d9caaafab (the one related with stalker 2.5 update) to also include following updates:
- Create StatusLists for Tasks, Asset, Shot and Sequences and add all the Statuses in the Task Status Workflow.
- Remove NEW from all of the status lists of Task, Asset, Shot and Sequence.
- Update all the PREV tasks to WIP to let them use the new Review Workflow.
- Update the Tasks.review_number to 0 for all tasks.
- Create StatusLists and Statuses (NEW, RREV, APP) for Reviews.
- Remove any other status then defined in the Task Status Workflow from Task, Asset, Shot and Sequence status list.

0.2.5.3¶

Fix: Fixed a bug in Task class where trying to remove the dependencies will raise an AttributeError caused by the Task._previously_removed_dependent_tasks attribute.

0.2.5.2¶

New: Task instances now have two new properties called path and absolute_path. As in Version instances, these are the rendered version of the related FilenameTemplate object in the related Project. The path attribute is Repository root relative and absolute_path is the absolute path including the OS dependent Repository path.
Update: Updated alembic revision with revision number “433d9caaafab” to also create Statuses introduced with Stalker v0.2.5.

0.2.5.1¶

Update: Version.__repr__ results with a more readable string.
New: Added a generalized generator called stalker.models.walk_hierarchy() that walks and yields the entities over the given attribute in DFS or BFS fashion.
New: Added Task.walk_hierarchy() which iterates over the hierarchy of the task. It walks in a breadth first fashion. Use method=0 to walk in depth first.
New: Added Task.walk_dependencies() which iterates over the dependencies of the task. It walks in a breadth first fashion. Use method=0 to walk in depth first.
New: Added Version.walk_hierarchy() which iterates over the hierarchy of the version. It walks in a depth first fashion. Use method=1 to walk in breadth first.
New: Added Version.walk_inputs() which iterates over the inputs of the version. It walks in a depth first fashion. Use method=1 to walk in breath first.
Update: stalker.models.check_circular_dependency() function is now using stalker.models.walk_hierarchy() instead of recursion over itself, which makes it more robust in deep hierarchies.
Fix: db.init() now updates the statuses of already created status lists for Task, Asset, Shot and Sequence classes.

0.2.5¶

Update: Revision class is renamed to Review and introduced a couple of new attributes.
New: Added a new workflow called “Task Review Workflow”. Please see the documentation about the new workflow.
Update: Task.responsible attribute is now a list which allows multiple responsible to be set for a Task.
New: Because of the new “Task Review Workflow” task statuses which are normally created in Stalker Pyramid are now automatically created in Stalker database initialization. The new statuses are Waiting For Dependency (WFD), Ready To Start (RTS), Work In Progress (WIP), Pending Review (PREV), Has Revision (HREV), On Hold (OH), Stopped (STOP) and Completed (CMPL) are all used in Task, Asset, Shot and Sequence status lists by default.
New: Because of the new “Task Review Workflow” also a status list for Review class is created by default. It contains the statuses of New (NEW), Requested Revision (RREV) and Approved (APP).
Fix: Users.login column is now unique.
Update: Ticket workflow in config is now using the proper status names instead of the lower case names of the statuses.
New: Added a new exception called StatusError which states the entity status is not suitable for the action it is applied to.
New: Studio instance now stores the scheduling state to the database to prevent two scheduling process to override each other. It also stores the last schedule message and the last schedule date and the id of the user who has done the scheduling.
New: The Task Dependency relation is now using an Association Object instead of just a Secondary Table. The Task.depends and Task.dependent_of attributes are now association_proxies.

Also added extra parameters like dependency_target, gap_timing, gap_unit and gap_model to the dependency relation. So all of the dependency relations are now able to hold those extra information.

Updated the task_tjp_template to reflect the details of the dependencies that a task has.
New: ScheduleMixin class now has some default class attributes that will allow customizations in inherited classes. This is mainly done for TaskDependency class and for the gap_timing, gap_unit, gap_model attributes which are in fact synonyms of schedule_timing, schedule_unit and schedule_model attributes coming from the ScheduleMixin class. So by using the __default_schedule_attr_name__ Stalker is able to display error messages complaining about gap_timing attribute instead of schedule_timing etc.
New: Updating a task by calling Task.request_revision() will now set the TaskDependency.dependency_target to ‘onstart’ for tasks those are depending to the revised task and updated to have a status of DREV, OH or STOP. Thus, TaskJuggler will be able to continue scheduling these tasks even if the tasks are now working together.
Update: Updated the TaskJuggler templates to make the tjp output a little bit more readable.
New: ScheduleMixin now creates more localized (to the mixed in class) column and enum type names in the mixed in classes.

For example, it creates the TaskScheduleModel enum type for Task class and for TaskDependency it creates TaskDependencyGapModel with the same setup following the {{class_name}}{{attr_name}}Model template.

Also it creates schedule_model column for Task, and gap_model for TaskDependency class.
Update: Renamed the TaskScheduleUnit enum type name to TimeUnit in ScheduleMixin.

0.2.4¶

New: Added new class called Revision to hold info about Task revisions.
Update: Renamed ScheduleMixin to DateRangeMixin.
New: Added a new mixin called ScheduleMixin (replacing the old one) which adds attributes like schedule_timing, schedule_unit, schedule_model and schedule_constraint.
New: Added Task.tickets and Task.open_tickets properties.
Update: Removed unnecessary arguments (project_lead, tasks, watching, last_login) from User class.
Update: The timing_resolution attribute is moved from the DateRangeMixin to Studio class. So instances of classes like Project or Task will not have their own timing resolution anymore.
New: The Studio instance now overrides the values on stalker.defaults on creation and on load, and also the db.setup() function lets the first Studio instance that it finds to update the defaults. So it is now possible to use stalker.defaults all the time without worrying about the Studio settings.
Update: The Studio.yearly_working_days value is now always an integer.
New: Added a new method ScheduleMixin.least_meaningful_time_unit() to calculate the most appropriate timing unit and the value of the given seconds which represents an interval of time.

So it will convert 3600 seconds to 1 hours, and 8424000 seconds to 1 years if it represents working time (as_working_time=True) or 2340 hours if it is representing the calendar time.
New: Added a new method to ScheduleMixin called to_seconds(). The to_seconds() method converts the given schedule info values (schedule_timing, schedule_unit, schedule_model) to seconds considering if the given schedule_model is work time based (‘effort’ or ‘length’) or calendar time based (‘duration’).
New: Added a new method to ScheduleMixin called schedule_seconds which you may recognise from Task class. What it does is pretty much the same as in the Task class, it converts the given schedule info values to seconds.
Update: In DateRangeMixin, when the start, end or duration arguments given so that the duration is smaller then the defaults.timing_resolution the defaults.timing_resolution will be used as the duration and the end will be recalculated by anchoring the start value.
New: Adding a TimeLog to a Task and extending its schedule info values now will always use the least meaningful timing unit. So expanding a task from 16 hours to 18 hours will result a task with 2 days of schedule (considering the daily_working_hours = 9).
Update: Moved the daily_working_hours attribute from Studio class to WorkingHours class as it was much related to this one then Studio class. Left a property with the same name in the Studio class, so it will still function as it was before but there will be no column in the database for that attribute anymore.

0.2.3.5¶

Fix: Fixed a bug in stalker.models.auth.LocalSession where stalker was complaining about “copy_reg” module, it seems that it is related to this bug.

0.2.3.4¶

Update: Fixed a little bug in Link.extension property setter.
New: Moved the stalker.models.env.EnvironmentBase class to “Anima Tools” python module.
Fix: Fixed a bug in stalker.models.task.Task._responsible_getter() where it was always returning the greatest parents responsible as the responsible for the child task when the responsible is set to None for the child.
New: Added stalker.models.version.Version.naming_parents which returns a list of parents starting from the closest parent Asset, Shot or Sequence.
New: stalker.models.version.Version.nice_name now generates a name starting from the closest Asset, Shot or Sequence parent.

0.2.3.3¶

New: Ticket action methods (resolve, accept, reassign, reopen) now return the created TicketLog instance.

0.2.3.2¶

Update: Added tests for negative or zero fps value in Project class.
Fix: Minor fix to schedule_timing argument in Task class, where IDEs where assuming that the value passed to the schedule_timing should be integer where as it accepts floats also.
Update: Removed bg_color and fg_color attributes (and columns) from Status class. Use SimpleEntity.html_class and SimpleEntity.html_style attributes instead.
New: Added Project.open_tickets property.

0.2.3.1¶

Fix: Fixed an inconvenience in SimpleEntity.__init__() when a date_created argument with a value is later than datetime.datetime.now() is supplied and the date_updated argument is skipped or given as None, then the date_updated attribute value was generated from datetime.datetime.now() this was causing an unnecessary ValueError. This is fixed by directly copying the date_created value to date_updated value when it is skipped or None.

0.2.3¶

New: SimpleEntity now have two new attributes called html_style and html_class which can be used in storing cosmetic html values.

0.2.2.3¶

Update: Note.content attribute is now a synonym of the Note.description attribute.

0.2.2.2¶

Update: Studio.schedule() now returns information about how much did it take to schedule the tasks.
Update: Studio.to_tjp() now returns information about how much did it take to complete the conversion.

0.2.2.1¶

Fix: Task.percent_complete() now calculates the percent complete correctly.

0.2.2¶

Update: Added cascade attributes to all necessary relations for all the classes.
Update: The Version class is not mixed with the StatusMixin anymore. So the versions are not going to be statusable anymore. Also created alembic revision (a6598cde6b) for that update.

0.2.1.2¶

Update: TaskJugglerScheduler and the Studio classes are now returning the stderr message out of their schedule() methods.

0.2.1.1¶

Fix: Disabled some deep debug messages on TaskJugglerScheduler._parse_csv_file().
Fix: Fixed a flush issue related to the Task.parent attribute which is lazily loaded in Task._schedule_seconds_setter().

0.2.1¶

Fix: As usual distutil thinks 0.2.0 is a lower version number than 0.2.0.rc5 (I should have read the documentation again and used 0.2.0.c5 instead of 0.2.0.rc5) so this is a dummy update to just to fix the version number.

0.2.0¶

Update: Vacation tjp template now includes the time values of the start and end dates of the Vacation instance.

0.2.0.rc5¶

Update: For a container task, Task.total_logged_seconds and Task.schedule_seconds attributes are now using the info of the child tasks. Also these attributes are cached to database, so instead of querying the child tasks all the time, the calculated data is cached and whenever a TimeLog is created or updated for a child task (which changes the total_logged_seconds for the child task) or the schedule_timing or schedule_unit attributes are updated, the cached values are updated on the parents. Allowing Stalker to display percent_complete info of a container task without loading any of its children.
New: Added Task.percent_complete attribute, which calculates the percent of completeness of the task based on the Task.total_logged_seconds and Task.schedule_seconds attributes.
Fix: Added TimeLog.__eq__() operator to more robustly check if the time logs are overlapping.
New: Added Project.percent_complete, Percent.total_logged_seconds and Project.schedule_seconds attributes.
Update: ScheduleMixin._validate_dates() does not set the date values anymore, it just return the calculated and validated start, end and duration values.
Update: Vacation now can be created without a User instance, effectively making the Vacation a Studio wide vacation, which applies to all users.
Update: Vacation.__strictly_typed__ is updated to False, so there is no need to create a Type instance to be able to create a Vacation.
New: Studio.vacations property now returns the Vacation instances which has no user.
Update: Task.start and Task.end values are no more read from children Tasks for a container task over and over again but calculated whenever the start and end values of a child task are changed or a new child is appended or removed.
Update: SimpleEntity.description validation routine doesn’t convert the input to string anymore, but checks the given description value against being a string or unicode instance.
New: Added Ticket.summary field.
Fix: Fixed Link.extension, it is now accepting unicode.

0.2.0.rc4¶

New: Added a new attribute to Version class called latest_version which holds the latest version in the version queue.

New: To optimize the database connection times, stalker.db.setup() will not try to initialize the database every time it is called anymore. This leads a ~4x speed up in database connection setup. To initialize a newly created database please use:

# for a newly created database
from stalker import db
db.setup() # connects to database
db.init()  # fills some default values to be used with Stalker

# for any subsequent access just use (don't need to call db.init())
db.setup()

Update: Removed all __init_on_load() methods from all of the classes. It was causing SQLAlchemy to eagerly load relations, thus slowing down queries in certain cases (especially in Task.parent -> Task.children relation).
Fix: Fixed Vacation class tj3 format.
Fix: Studio.now attribute was not properly working when the Studio instance has been restored from database.

0.2.0.rc3¶

New: Added a new attribute to Task class called responsible.
Update: Removed Sequence.lead_id use Task.reponsible instead.
Update: Updated documentation to include documentation about Configuring Stalker with config.py.
Update: The duration argument in Task class is removed. It is somehow against the idea of having schedule_model and schedule_timing arguments (schedule_model='duration' is kind of the same).
Update: Updated Task class documentation.

0.2.0.rc2¶

New: Added Version.created_with attribute to track the environment or host program name that a particular Version instance is created with.

0.2.0.rc1¶

Update: Moved the Pyramid part of the system to another package called stalker_pyramid.
Fix: Fixed setup.py where importing stalker to get the __version__ variable causing problems.

0.2.0.b9¶

New: Added Version.latest_published_version and Version.is_latest_published_version().
Fix: Fixed Version.__eq__(), now Stalker correctly distinguishes different Version instances.
New: Added Repository.to_linux_path(), Repository.to_windows_path(), Repository.to_osx_path() and Repository.to_native_path() to the Repository class.
New: Added Repository.is_in_repo(path) which checks if the given path is in this repo.

0.2.0.b8¶

Update: Renamed Version.version_of attribute to Version.task.
Fix: Fixed Version.version_number where it was not possible to have a version number bigger than 2.
Fix: In db.setup() Ticket statuses are only created if there aren’t any.
Fix: Added Vacation class to the registered class list in stalker.db.

0.2.0.b7¶

Update: Task.schedule_constraint is now reflected to the tjp file correctly.
Fix: check_circular_dependency() now checks if the entity and the other_entity are the same.
Fix: Task.to_tjp() now correctly add the dependent tasks of a container task.
Fix: Task.__eq__() now correctly considers the parent, depends, resources, start and end dates.
Update: Task.priority is now reflected in tjp file if it is different than the default value (500).
New:: Added a new class called Vacation to hold user vacations.
Update: Removed dependencies to pyramid.security.Allow and pyramid.security.Deny in couple of packages.
Update: Changed the way the stalker.defaults is created.
Fix: EnvironmentBase.get_version_from_full_path(), EnvironmentBase.get_versions_from_path(), EnvironmentBase.trim_repo_path(), EnvironmentBase.find_repo methods are now working properly.
Update: Added Version.absolute_full_path property which renders the absolute full path which also includes the repository path.
Update: Added Version.absolute_path property which renders the absolute path which also includes the repository path.

0.2.0.b6¶

Fix: Fixed LocalSession._write_data(), previously it was not creating the local session folder.
New: Added a new method called LocalSession.delete() to remove the local session file.
Update: Link.full_path can now be set to an empty string. This is updated in this way for Version class.
Update: Updated the formatting of SimpleEntity.nice_name, it is now possible to have uppercase letters and camel case format will be preserved.
Update: Version.take_name formatting is enhanced.
New: Task class is now mixed in with ReferenceMixin making it unnecessary to have Asset, Shot and Sequence classes all mixed in individually. Thus removed the ReferenceMixin from Asset, Shot and Sequence classes.
Update: Added Task.schedule_model validation and its tests.
New: Added ScheduleMixin.total_seconds and ScheduleMixin.computed_total_seconds.

0.2.0.b5¶

New: Version class now has two new attributes called parent and children which will be used in tracking of the history of Version instances and track which Versions are derived from which Version.
New: Versions instances are now derived from Link class and not Entity.
Update: Added new revisions to alembic to reflect the change in Versions table.
Update: Links.path is renamed to Links.full_path and added three new attributes called path, filename and extension.
Update: Added new revisions to alembic to reflect the change in Links table.
New: Added a new class called LocalSession to store session data in users local filesystem. It is going to be replaced with some other system like Beaker.
Fix: Database part of Stalker can now be imported without depending to Pyramid.
Fix: Fixed documentation errors that Sphinx complained about.

0.2.0.b4¶

No changes in SOM.

0.2.0.b3¶

Update: FilenameTemplate’s are not strictly typed anymore.
Update: Removed the FilenameTemplate type initialization, FilenameTemplates do not depend on Types anymore.
Update: Added back the plural_class_name (previously plural_name) property to the ORMClass class, so all the classes in SOM now have this new property.
Update: Added accepts_references attribute to the EntityType class.
New: The Link class has a new attribute called original_filename to store the original file names of link files.
New: Added alembic to the project requirements.
New: Added alembic migrations which adds the accepts_references column to EntityTypes table and original_name to the Links table.

0.2.0.b2¶

Stalker is now compatible with Python 2.6.
Task:
- Update: Tasks now have a new attribute called watchers which holds a list of User instances watching the particular Task.
- Update: Users now have a new attribute called watching which is a list of Task instances that this user is watching.
TimeLog:
- Update: TimeLog instances will expand Task.schedule_timing value automatically if the total amount of logged time is more than the schedule_timing value.
- Update: TimeLogs are now considered while scheduling the task.
- Fix: TimeLogs raises OverBookedError when appending the same TimeLog instance to the same resource.
Auth:
- Fix: The default ACLs for determining the permissions are now working properly.

0.2.0.b1¶

WorkingHours.is_working_hour() is working now.
WorkingHours class is moved from stalker.models.project to stalker.models.studio module.
daily_working_hours attribute is moved from stalker.models.project.Project to stalker.models.studio.Studio class.
Repository path variables now ends with a forward slash even if it is not given.
Updated Project classes validation messages to correlate with Stalker standard.
Implementation of the Studio class is finished. The scheduling works like a charm.
It is now possible to use any characters in SimpleEntity.name and the derived classes.
Booking class is renamed to TimeLog.

0.2.0.a10¶

Added new attribute to WorkingHours class called weekly_working_hours, which calculates the weekly working hours based on the working hours defined in the instance.
Task class now has a new attribute called schedule_timing which is replacing the effort, length and duration attributes. Together with the schedule_model attribute it will be used in scheduling the Task.
Updated the config system to the one used in oyProjectManager (based on Sphinx config system). Now to reach the defaults:
```
# instead of doing the following
from stalker.conf import defaults # not valid anymore

# use this
from stalker import defaults
```
If the above idiom is used, the old defaults module behaviour is retained, so no code change is required other than the new lower case config variable names.

0.2.0.a9¶

A new property called to_tjp added to the SimpleEntity class which needs to be implemented in the child and is going to be used in TaskJuggler integration.
A new attribute called is_scheduled added to Task class and it is going to be used in Gantt charts. Where it will lock the class and will not try to snap it to anywhere if it is scheduled.
Changed the resolution attribute name to timing_resolution to comply with TaskJuggler.
ScheduleMixin:
- Updated ScheduleMixin class documentation.
- There are two new read-only attributes called computed_start and computed_end. These attributes will be used in storing of the values calculated by TaskJuggler, and will be used in Gantt Charts if available.
- Added computed_duration.
Task:
- Arranged the TaskJuggler workflow.
- The task will use the effort > length > duration attributes in to_tjp property.
Changed the license of Stalker from BSD-2 to LGPL 2.1. Any version previous to 0.2.0.a9 will be still BSD-2 and any version from and including 0.2.0.a9 will be distributed under LGPL 2.1 license.
Added new types of classes called Schedulers which are going to be used in scheduling the tasks.
Added TaskJugglerScheduler, it uses the given project and schedules its tasks.

0.2.0.a8¶

TagSelect now can be filled by setting its value attribute (Ex: TagSelect.set(‘value’, data))
Added a new method called is_root to Task class. It is true for tasks where there are no parents.
Added a new attribute called users to the Department class which is a synonym for the members attribute.
Task:
- Task class is now preventing one of the dependents to be set as the parent of a task.
- Task class is now preventing one of the parents to be set as the one of the dependents of a task.
- Fixed autoflush bugs in Task class.
Fixed admin users department initialization.
Added thumbnail attribute to the SimpleEntity class which is a reference to a Link instance, showing the path of the thumbnail.
Fixed Circular Dependency bug in Task class, where a parent of a newly created task is depending to another task which is set as the dependee for this newly created task (T1 -> T3 -> T2 -> T1 (parent relation) -> T3 -> T2 etc.).

0.2.0.a7¶

Changed these default setting value names to corresponding new names:
- DEFAULT_TASK_DURATION -> TASK_DURATION
- DEFAULT_TASK_PRIORITY -> TASK_PRIORITY
- DEFAULT_VERSION_TAKE_NAME -> VERSION_TAKE_NAME
- DEFAULT_TICKET_LABEL -> TICKET_LABEL
- DEFAULT_ACTIONS -> ACTIONS
- DEFAULT_BG_COLOR -> BG_COLOR
- DEFAULT_FG_COLOR -> FG_COLOR
stalker.conf.defaults:
- Added default settings for project working hours (WORKING_HOURS, DAY_ORDER, DAILY_WORKING_HOURS)
- Added a new variable for setting the task time resolution called TIME_RESOLUTION.
stalker.models.project.Project:
- Removed Project.project_tasks attribute, use Project.tasks directly to get all the Tasks in that project. For root task you can do a quick query:
```
Task.query.filter(Task.project==proj_id).filter(Task.parent==None).all()
```
  This will also return the Assets, Sequences and Shots in that project, which are also Tasks.
- Users are now assigned to Projects by appending them to the Project.users list. This is done in this way to allow a reduced list of resources to be shown in the Task creation dialogs.
- Added a new helper class for Project working hour management, called WorkingHours.
- Added a new attribute to Project class called working_hours which holds stalker.models.project.WorkingHours instances to manage the Project working hours. It will directly be passed to TaskJuggler.
stalker.models.task.Task:
- Removed the Task.task_of attribute, use Task.parent to get the owner of this Task.
- Task now has two new attributes called Task.parent and Task.children which allow more complex Task-to-Task relation.
- Secondary table name for holding Task to Task dependency relation is renamed from Task_Tasks to Task_Dependencies.
- check_circular_dependency function is now accepting a third argument which is the name of the attribute to be investigated for circular relationship. It is done in that way to be able to use the same function in searching for circular relations both in parent/child and depender/dependee relations.
ScheduleMixin:
- Added a new attribute to ScheduleMixin for time resolution adjustment. Default value is 1 hour and can be set with stalker.conf.defaults.TIME_RESOLUTION. Any finer time than the resolution is rounded to the closest multiply of the resolution. It is possible to set it from microseconds to years. Although 1 hour is a very reasonable resolution which is also the default resolution for TaskJuggler.
- ScheduleMixin now uses datetime.datetime for the start and end attributes.
- Renamed the start_date attribute to start.
- Renamed the end_date attribute to end
Removed the TaskableEntity.
Asset, Sequence and Shot classes are now derived from Task class allowing more complex Task relation combined with the new parent/child relation of Tasks. Use Asset.children or Asset.tasks to reach the child tasks of that asset (same with Sequence and Shot classes).
stalker.models.shot.Shot:
- Removed the sequence and introduced sequences attribute in Shot class. Now one shot can be in more than one Sequence. Allowing more complex Shot/Sequence relations..
- Shots can now be created without a Sequence instance. The sequence attribute is just used to group the Shots.
- Shots now have a new attribute called scenes, holding Scene instances. It is created to group same shots occurring in the same scenes.
In tests all the Warnings are now properly handled as Warnings.
stalker.models.ticket.Ticket:
- Ticket instances are now tied to Projects and it is now possible to create Tickets without supplying a Version. They are free now.
- It is now possible to link any SimpleEntity to a Ticket.
- The Ticket Workflow is now fully customizable. Use stalker.conf.defaults.TICKET_WORKFLOW dictionary to define the workflow and stalker.conf.defaults.TICKET_STATUS_ORDER for the order of the ticket statuses.
Added a new class called Scene to manage Shots with another property.
Removed the output_path attribute in FilenameTemplate class.
Grouped the templates for each entity under a directory with the entity name.

0.2.0.a6¶

Users now can have more than one Department.
User instances now have two new properties for getting the user tickets (User.tickets) and the open tickets (User.open_tickets).
New shortcut Task.project returns the Task.task_of.project value.
Shot and Asset creation dialogs now automatically updated with the given Project instance info.
User overview page is now reflection the new design.

0.2.0.a5¶

The code attribute of the SimpleEntity is now introduced as a separate mixin. To let it be used by the classes it is really needed.
The query method is now converted to a property so it is now possible to use it like a property as in the SQLAlchemy.orm.Session as shown below:
```
from stalker import Project
Project.query.all() # instead of Project.query().all()
```
ScheduleMixin.due_date is renamed to ScheduleMixin.end_date.
Added a new class attribute to SimpleEntity called __auto_name__ which controls the naming of the instances and instances derived from SimpleEntity. If __auto_name__ is set to True the name attribute of the instance will be automatically generated and it will have the following format:
```
{{ClassName}}_{{UUID4}}
```
Here are a couple of naming examples:
```
Ticket_74bb46b0-29de-4f3e-b4e6-8bcf6aed352d
Version_2fa5749e-8cdb-4887-aef2-6d8cec6a4faa
```
Fixed an autoflush issue with SQLAlchemy in StatusList class. Now the status column is again not nullable in StatusMixin.

0.2.0.a4¶

Added a new class called EntityType to hold all the available class names and capabilities.
Version class now has a new attribute called inputs to hold the inputs of the current Version instance. It is a list of Link instances.
FilenameTemplate classes path and filename attributes are no more converted to string, so given a non string value will raise TypeError.
Structure.custom_template now only accepts strings and None, setting it to anything else will raise a TypeError.

Two Type’s for FilenameTemplate’s are created by default when initializing the database, first is called “Version” and it is used to define FilenameTemplates which are used for placing Version source files. The second one is called “Reference” and it is used when injecting references to a given class. Along with the FilenameTemplate.target_entity_type this will allow one to create two different FilenameTemplates for one class:

# first get the Types
vers_type = Type.query()\
            .filter_by(target_entity_type="FilenameTemplate")\
            .filter_by(type="Version")\
            .first()

ref_type = Type.query()\
           .filter_by(target_entity_type="FilenameTemplate")\
           .filter_by(type="Reference")\
           .first()

# lets create a FilenameTemplate for placing Asset Version files.
f_ver = FilenameTemplate(
    target_entity_type="Asset",
    type=vers_type,
    path="Assets/{{asset.type.code}}/{{asset.code}}/{{task.type.code}}",
    filename="{{asset.code}}_{{version.take_name}}_{{task.type.code}}_v{{'%03d'|version.version_number}}{{link.extension}}"
    output_path="{{version.path}}/Outputs/{{version.take_name}}"
)

# and now define a FilenameTemplate for placing Asset Reference files.
# no need to have an output_path here...
f_ref = FilenameTemplate(
    target_entity_type="Asset",
    type=ref_type,
    path="Assets/{{asset.type.code}}/{{asset.code}}/References",
    filename="{{link.type.code}}/{{link.id}}{{link.extension}}"
)

stalker.db.register() now accepts only real classes instead of class names. This way it can store more information about classes.
Status.bg_color and Status.fg_color attributes are now simple integers. And the Color class is removed.
StatusMixin.status is now a ForeignKey to a the Statuses table, thus it is a real Status instance instead of an integer showing the index of the Status in the related StatusList. This way the Status of the object will not change if the content of the StatusList is changed.
Added new attribute Project.project_tasks which holds all the direct or indirect Tasks created for that project.
User.login_name is renamed to User.login.
Removed the first_name, last_name and initials attributes from User class. Now the name and code attributes are going to be used, thus the name attribute is no more the equivalent of login and the code attribute is doing what was initials doing previously.

0.2.0.a3¶

Status class now has two new attributes bg_color and fg_color to hold the UI colors of the Status instance. The colors are Color instances.

0.2.0.a2¶

SimpleEntity now has an attribute called generic_data which can hold any kind of SOM object inside and it is a list.
Changed the formatting rules for the name in SimpleEntity class, now it can start with a number, and it is not allowed to have multiple whitespace characters following each other.
The source attribute in Version is renamed to source_file.
The version attribute in Version is renamed to version_number.
The take attribute in Version is renamed to take_name.
The version_number in Version is now generated automatically if it is skipped or given as None or it is too low where there is already a version number for the same Version series (means attached to the same Task and has the same take_name.
Moved the User class to stalker.models.auth module.
Removed the stalker.ext.auth module because it is not necessary anymore. Thus the User now handles all the password conversions by itself.
PermissionGroup is renamed back to Group again to match with the general naming of the authorization concept.
Created two new classes for the Authorization system, first one is called Permission and the second one is a Mixin which is called ACLMixin which adds ACLs to the mixed in class. For now, only the User and Group classes are mixed with this mixin by default.
The declarative Base class of SQLAlchemy is now created by binding it to a ORMClass (a random name) which lets all the derived class to have a method called query which will bypass the need of calling DBSession.query(class_) but instead just call class_.query():
```
from stalker.models.auth import User
user_1 = User.query().filter_by(name='a user name').first()
```

0.2.0.a1¶

Changed the db.setup arguments. It is now accepting a dictionary instead of just a string to comply with the SQLAlchemy scaffold and this dictionary should contain keys for the SQLAlchemy engine setup. There is another utility that comes with Pyramid to setup the database under the scripts folder, it is also working without any problem with stalker.db.
The session variable is renamed to DBSession and is now a scopped session, so there is no need to use DBSession.commit it will be handled by the system it self.
Even though the DBSession is using the Zope Transaction Manager extension normally, in the database tests no extension is used because the transaction manager was swallowing all errors and it was a little weird to try to catch this errors out of the with block.
Refactored the code, all the models are now in separate python files, but can be directly imported from the main stalker module as shown:
```
from stalker import User, Department, Task
```
By using this kind of organization, both development and usage will be eased out.
task_of now only accepts TaskableEntity instances.
Updated the examples. It is now showing how to extend SOM correctly.
Updated the references to the SOM classes in docstrings and rst files.
Removed the Review class. And introduced the much handier Ticket class. Now reviewing a data is the process of creating Ticket’s to that data.
The database is now initialized with a StatusList and a couple of Statuses appropriate for Ticket instances.
The database is now initialized with two Type instances (‘Enhancement’ and ‘Defect’) suitable for Ticket instances.
StatusMixin now stores the status attribute as an Integer showing the index of the Status in the status_list attribute but when asked for the value of StatusMixin.status attribute it will return a proper Status instance and the attribute can be set with an integer or with a proper Status instance.