Monthly Milestone - August 2018 🍉⛱

[bajtos]

August Milestone

General themes:

• Work on p1 stories that slipped from DP3 release
• Fix bugs reported by the community
• Start working on 4.0 GA stories

LB 4.x

Relations

• [ ] 🏃 BelongsTo relation #1361 => PR #1618
• [x] (Accessibility) HasMany Relation Image #1532 => PR #1577

LB4 web site

• [x] Getting Started page https://github.com/strongloop/v4.loopback.io/issues/22 => PR strongloop/v4.loopback.io#29

Demo Scenarios

• [x] User Profile Component #1480 => https://github.com/strongloop/loopback4-example-shopping

Performance

• [x] Spike: performance benchmark #534 => PR #1583

Cloud Native

• [x] Spike: Deploy LB4 applications to IBM Cloud #1446 => PR #1574

Other

• [x] Bug: The error response for a request with malformed JSON body provides too little information #1434 => PR #1598
• [x] CLI: lb4 example should install dependencies #1555 => PR #1585
• [x] CASCON poster proposal (internal) https://github.com/strongloop-internal/scrum-apex/issues/384
• [x] NodeSummit Reflection Blog => PR strongloop/strongloop.com#148

Bugs/Features reported by our community

• [x] REST: DELETE with invalid ID is successful #1472 => PR #1621
• [ ] 🏃 Incorrect response codes for invalid HTTP calls #1469 => PR #1617
• [x] Docs: Update Why Not Express section in Crafting LoopBack 4 #1538 => PR #1630
• [ ] 🏃 Unable to Explore API #1531 => PR #1655
• [x] Improperly Inserting Array Properties Into MongoDB #1508 => PR #1570
• [x] compile error in generated model ts file when using lb4 model #1562 => PR #1564
• [x] Resolving constructor arguments for derived class includes bound arguments from base classes #1565 => PR #1596

LB 3.x

• [x] Set up ibmdb instance for CI in the ibmdb connectors https://github.com/strongloop-internal/scrum-apex/issues/383
• [x] Update LICENSE from IPAL to MIT license https://github.com/strongloop-internal/scrum-apex/issues/382
• [x] Regression: LazyConnect MySQL Datasources Never Connect after update to v3.21.0, https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-datasource-juggler/issues/1592
• [x] Update our LTS policy to follow Module LTS policy
  • [x] doc changes - https://github.com/strongloop/loopback.io/pull/715 and https://github.com/strongloop/loopback.io/pull/720
  • [x] a blog post

Interrupts

• [x] LB 2/3 Interrupt. AccessToken API (if exposed) allows anyone to create a Token => PR strongloop/loopback#3964, strongloop/loopback#3965, strongloop/loopback.io#725
  • ~Need to add CVSS Score to Advisory once available~
• [x] $where and Javascript Server-side Code Injection https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-mongodb/issues/403
  • ~Need to add CVSS Score to Advisory once available~

Stretch Goals

LB4 web site

• [ ] Add a static site generator to reuse header and footer https://github.com/strongloop/v4.loopback.io/issues/14

Demo scenarios

• [ ] Demo scenario: order history component #1483

Integration with REST / SOAP services

• [x] Sugar API for registering services + automated registration via boot #1439

Extension infrastructure

• [ ] Spike: Allow extensions to contribute custom booters #1461

July Stretch Goals Started but not finished.

• [ ] PersistedModel.destroyAll has very dangerous behaviour if the filter is not passed in correctly. strongloop/loopback#3094
• [x] Upgrade yeoman-generator to latest strongloop/generator-loopback#355

Legend of annotations

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task

[jannyHou]

hi @dhmlau @virkt25 there is a LB3 task in progress from last month(stretch goal): https://github.com/strongloop/generator-loopback/issues/355, it may take 1-2 weeks, can we also add it in the August milestone? At least in the stretch goal...thanks.

[virkt25]

Closing this as done.

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Past / Expected Average: 65 Committed Points (not including stretch goals): 86 Completed Points (including stretch): 73 Slipped Tasks: 3 Number of interrupts completed: 4 (NodeSummit Blog, 2 Security Issues, SOAP connector issues) Stretch Goals Completed: 2