Stage-main 7.0 prep

[schuyler1d]

• texter sideboxes (behind TEXTER_SIDEBOXES) (schuyler1d)
• Tag improvements (behind EXPERIMENTAL_TAGS) (schuyler1d)
  • texter sidebox for tagging
  • Tag filtering in Message Review
• VAN action handler (lperson)
• Conversation links (as a sidebox and in Message Review) (lperson)
• https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/pull/1602 Make dataloaders per-request (matteosb)
  • New dev rule: no loaders in mutations -- only use cacheableData
• Some accessibility tweaks for the Texter Experience; Different keyboard shortcuts to send:
  • Enter key is removed to send for accessibility reasons (needs to be used for keyboard 'click'ing)
  • Ctrl-x to Send Ctrl-y to Skip, When you are sending initial texts, pressing any key will send.
• https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/pull/1604 remove buggy notification on replies (matteosb)

Awaiting completion

• https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/pull/1562 - Suspending texters

Draft Release Notes

• Spoke 7.0 has several valuable infrastructure updates
  • Bug fixes:
    • Twilio incoming message handlers would sometimes fail due to a defunct database (knex) listener
    • Local memory cache would sometimes be used after updates, especially in persisting multi-server environments (tech: 'loaders' are now appropriately per-request and only used in queries, not mutations)
  • Improvements

    • There is now further support for VAN -- a robust action handler that can be enabled by adding ACTION_HANDLERS=ngpvan-action to your environment variables will enable this.

    • We have a new framework for extending the Texter UI interface called "sideboxes". Enabled with environment variable TEXTER_SIDEBOXES which works similarly to action handlers, where it should be a comma separated list of enabled sideboxes. Developers can add sidebox functionality, and admins can set defaults in the organization Settings section and changes per-campaign -- enabling/disabling sideboxes. Two so-far are:

      • contact-reference which is a link the texter can click and/or share with an admin for direct access to that conversation later
      • tag-contact which if you have EXPERIMENTAL_TAGS=1 enabled and create tags, a texter will have an interface to mark them. They can then be filtered for in Message Review.

      There will be more work here going forward -- feedback is welcome as this is still a feature in active development.

    • Texter UI Accessibility improvements -- previously we captured the Enter key to send a message. This was inaccessible because the Enter key is used when navigating with the keyboard in order to 'click' a button. Sending is now possible with Ctrl-x (and skip is Ctrl-y).

    • We have now disabled by default the ability to hold down the Enter key -- for sending you can now press any letter key (or Enter) to send a message. If you want this functionality back set HOLD_ENTER_KEY=1

  • Backwards incompatibilities:
    • This change has schema changes on the campaign table which you should make sure to update -- it should be a fast and painless upgrade (automatic if you have it setup)
    • The Texter UI Accessibility improvements DO come at the expense of changing how the Enter key behaves for texters. You should communicate this to your texting team and update and training materials.

[schuyler1d]

closing in favor of https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/pull/1623 as a Spoke 7.0 target