v2.0.0

Release of the Volunteer Manager that introduces support for Volunteering Displays, as well as powerful subscription management.

Volunteering Displays

A display sub-app has been introduced, intended to run on purpose built physical displays that we'll distribute to locations during the event.

• Displays automatically register themselves, and need to be provisioned by an administrator
  • Provisioning happens based on an event and a location, and can be updated at any time,
  • Provisioned displays can be configured to a particular colour, and the device can be (un)locked,
  • They will automatically update their state at a configured interval.
• Displays show useful information for the location
  • They can display current and upcoming volunteers, as well as a full volunteering schedule,
  • They can display, when enabled, a Del a Rie Advies prompt,
  • They integrate with the device and can show debugging information, such as assigned IP addresses.
• Help can be requested straight from the displays
  • Requests are categorised between Crew, Stewards, and when enabled, Del a Rie Advies,
  • Individuals can subscribe to such requests, and will receive immediate notifications
    • Requests can be seen in the administration area,
    • Requests can be managed in the schedule sub-app.

The displays run an Android app that's available in the volunteer-manager-display repository.

Subscription management

A pub-sub mechanism intended for distributing notifications that happen in the Volunteer Manager. Where it previously was hardcoded that an e-mail should be sent to a particular address when an application is received, when publication of such an action happens any user can now subscribe to it, and receive updates using e-mail, text messaging or WhatsApp.

• Flexible publication mechanism, with subscription management
  • Any user with the "subscription eligibility" permission can be subscribed to any publication,
  • All publications are logged and instrumented, and can be traced back to the source origin.
• Flexible notification fan-out to any number of channels
  • All subscriptions can be send to any number of channels: e-mail, text messaging and/or WhatsApp,
  • Fan-out registration happens on publication, execution will happen in scheduled background tasks.
• Integration with Twilio for distributing text and WhatsApp messages.

Various #3 changes are included in this release that are not covered in this changelog.