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"""This module contains the Contributor Model."""

__authors__ = [

  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',

  '"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',

]

from google.appengine.ext import db

from soc import models

import soc.models.author

class Contributor(db.Model):

  """Contributor details for a specific Program.

  Some Contributor workflows have the Contributor (acting as an Author)

  creating Proposals and desiring for one (or more?) of them to be

  converted into Tasks by Reviewers and Hosts.  Other workflows have the

  Reviewers (acting as an Author) proposing Proposals, that Contributors

  claim to convert them into Tasks.

  A Contributor entity participates in the following relationships implemented 

  as a db.ReferenceProperty elsewhere in another db.Model:

   tasks)  a many:many relationship associating all of the Tasks to which

     a specific Contributor has contributed with that Contributor.  See

     the TasksContributors model for details.

  """

  #: a 1:1 relationship associating a Contributor with generic Author

  #: details and capabilities. The back-reference in the Author

  #: model is a Query named 'contributor'.

  author = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class=models.author.Author, 

                                required=True, 

                                collection_name="contributor")