snchildress / closing-bell

A vacation schedule management app

Closing Bell

Closing Bell is a vacation schedule management app. It's built on top of the Django Python framework.

Contributing

Clone this repository and branch off development using the following branch naming convention:

• feature/name
• task/name
• bug/name

git clone https://github.com/snchildress/closing-bell
git checkout -b feature/name

Create and activate a virtual environment and turn on DEBUG mode for local development

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
export DEBUG=True

Migrate your development database, create a superuser, then run the development server

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py runserver

Once your feature, task, or bug fix is complete, submit a Pull Request to the development branch

To Do

The following tasks are intended to clarify the user experience or add additional functionality

Clarify User Experience

• Make it clear to admins which user's request page you are viewing
• Allow users to specify a single date when taking a single day off
• Remove confusing reset buttons
• Validate that a request's start date is before an end date
• Swap the placement of one's balance and accrued days
• Provide admins the remaining balance of all users
• Remove nights and weekends from balance deductions and additions

Additional Functionality

• Notify admins when users submit new requests
• Expose all users' requests by month and year in a single report view