manage waitlist from cli
value
- if we get a flood of new channel requests that is greater than our capacity to service, we would like to turn off new channel creation, and add requests to a wait list so we can create them once enough channels have been deleted to free up capacity
- in #447 (closed) we added the capacity to automatically add users to the waitlist when they ask for a new channel that we don't have capacity to make
- currently, we take people off the waitlist manually (by using psql to find the waitlisted users' phone numbers, creating them using the
boostcli, then deleting the waitlist entry) - here, we provide cli commands to automate the process of removing people from the waitlist (and, as a happy side-effect: removing the need for maintainers to view admin phone numbers to make them a new channel!)
behavior
checking waitlist size
GIVEN a channel waitlist with 5 requests pending
- WHEN a maintainers issues
boost waitlist -c - THEN they will receive a response that says
5 channel requests in waitlist
admitting user from waitlist
GIVEN a channel waitlist with 5 requests pending and 2 verified channels
- WHEN a maintainer issues
boost waitlist -a 2 - THEN channels will be created for the earliest 2 members to enter the waitlist
- AND THEN the admins who made the requests will receive welcome messages
- AND THEN the waitlist records will be deleted
- AND THEN the maintainer will be notified that 2 channels were created and the waitlist size is now 3
sad path: not enough phone numbers
GIVEN a channel waitlist with 5 requests pending and 2 verified channels
- WHEN a maintainer issues
boost waitlist -a 5 - THEN no channels will be created
- AND THEN the maintainer will receive a message that says
sorry, there are only 2 available phone numbers. try again?