Read-only admin view for maintainers #400

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opened 2024-11-29 14:52:27 +00:00 by fricklerhandwerk · 0 comments

fricklerhandwerk commented

2024-11-29 14:52:27 +00:00

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Implementation notes:

This may get painful because Django has opinions on what an "admin" is
In order to scale with the proper frontend, it would require modeling permissions in the ORM rather than in views
Yes, that's a second UI to maintain, but we already have done it since the beginning because it has proven quite valuable to be able to click around quickly

As a Nixpkgs maintainer, I want to inspect the security tracker data in case the UI fails me. Since downloading a complete database dump may take >30min but I typically would only look at a few entries, all I need is an easily accessible, faithful representation of the database contents. Implementation notes: - This may get painful because Django has opinions on what an "admin" is - In order to scale with the proper frontend, it would require modeling permissions in the ORM rather than in views - Yes, that's a second UI to maintain, but we already have done it since the beginning because it has proven quite valuable to be able to click around quickly