The migration path for a club arriving with a list of children from a
federation export and no parent records. Children import without logins, each
into a family of their own -- that shape *is* the "nobody is responsible for
this child" state, so there's no unclaimed flag to drift out of step with
reality, and a family drops off the worklist by itself the moment a parent
joins it. `family_role=child` with a blank `family_group` asks for that; any
other lone role is still a mistake in the file.
Verification is a human decision, deliberately. A parent submits a public form
with the child's name and date of birth as free text -- no search, no
autocomplete, and the same response whether or not the child was found, because
the page needs no login and anything that resolved the child would turn it into
a way to enumerate the club's children. An admin matches it from a queue
against a shortlist that only ever contains children with nobody on file, so
approving can never quietly re-parent a child who already has one.
The alternatives were worse. A claim code needs a delivery channel the club may
not have and is a bearer token besides. Matching on name plus birthday hands out
someone else's child to whoever guesses a birthday. The club is the only party
that actually knows its own families.
That form is also the registration: open self-registration is now closed
(shadowing account_signup rather than removing the route, so the URL name
allauth's templates reverse still resolves). The account is created on
approval, not on submission, so a public form can't fill the user table. An
approved parent lands as a guardian -- login and family link, no membership, no
fee -- gets a password-reset link, and a minimal "my family" page.
One bug worth recording: families_awaiting_a_parent first used
annotate(Count(..., filter=...)) over a queryset already filtered on the same
join, so Django reused that join for the counts and a parent with no
ClubMembership of their own -- exactly what a newly linked guardian is -- went
uncounted, leaving the family unclaimed forever. Exists subqueries avoid it. A
test pins both directions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
members/services/family.py enrolled a parent exactly like the child they were
registering, so every parent held a full membership: counted in the member
list, in the club and platform KPIs, and in the fee roll, with a fee record of
their own. ClubMembership.kind (member | guardian) separates the two.
A guardian is attached to the club only through their child. They hold the
login, can be contacted and can sit in a Group -- the stated exception -- but
they are not a member: no fee (clean() refuses one), absent from the member
list, the fee list and every member count, and not eligible for a roster or a
staff spot. A parent who also plays or coaches is a member who happens to be a
parent; the two facts are independent, which is why this is its own field
rather than inferred from FamilyMembership.role.
A field on ClubMembership rather than a separate model because everything that
answers "is this person attached to this club" already reads through that table
-- tenancy, groups, the club-wide event audience -- and a second kind of link
would need a parallel path through all of it. What changes is only who counts.
Two things that weren't obvious going in:
Excluding guardians had to be a subtraction, not a narrower filter. The obvious
move -- match only member-kind rows and drop the MEMBER-role branch, since an
active membership of any kind grants that role -- also hides someone the club
knows but hasn't signed up for a season yet, which is a real state the member
edit page supports. Two existing tests caught it. _guardians_only() subtracts
instead, so anyone who also plays, is on staff or runs the club stays visible.
Their tie to the club isn't seasonal but rides on a per-season row, so it has
to be carried forward or a parent silently drops off at the season boundary
while their child stays enrolled. Copied from the immediately preceding season
only, so a deliberate removal isn't resurrected from an older row.
The data migration reclassifies existing parents, deliberately skipping anyone
who plays, is on a team's staff or holds an elevated ClubRole -- demoting them
would strip them from their own team's roster eligibility. Anything ambiguous
stays a member, which an admin can flip; noticing someone quietly vanished is
much harder.
The import template gains a membership_kind column next to family_role (a
child marked guardian is refused), and the review screen shows what each row
will join as.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Builds the referee workflow end to end: club-defined RefereeLevel/RefereeProfile
eligibility tied to teams, EventReferee assignment (member or external, with
fee/km payment tracking), an admin dashboard with KPI tiles, date-grouped game
tiles and range filters, and a downloadable payment form PDF modeled on the
club's existing paper document (using Club.legal_name when set). Also lands
team roster bulk-add, member mass-upload with family linking, and the
members.Group model, developed alongside this work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gives clubs a self-service /manage/ area for members, families, teams,
roles, and season memberships, alongside real fee-payment tracking
(FeePayment, record_payment/mark_as_paid/remaining_balance) so a
membership's paid status reflects actual money received instead of a
single manually-set flag.
