Add internal notes to grants recap

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Project	Deployment	Review	Updated (UTC)
pycon	Ready	Preview	Jan 19, 2026 9:55am

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@claude do the code review. Missing a test, add one.

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Claude finished @estyxx's task in 2m 36s —— View job

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Code Review

Summary: This PR adds internal notes functionality to the grants recap view, allowing reviewers to edit internal notes directly from the recap page.

Changes reviewed:

• backend/reviews/admin.py - Added POST data parsing for notes and update logic
• backend/reviews/templates/grants-recap.html - Added UI for notes textarea and styling

Overall: The implementation looks good. A few observations:

backend/reviews/admin.py

1. Lines 295-299: The notes parsing logic follows the same pattern as existing code. Good consistency.

2. Lines 402-411: The notes update logic is straightforward:

   • It only updates grants where the notes have actually changed (good for avoiding unnecessary DB writes)
   • The code correctly checks if grant.internal_notes != new_notes before saving

3. Minor suggestion: Consider adding an admin log entry when internal notes are changed, similar to how pending_status changes are logged (lines 363-367). This would provide an audit trail for note changes. However, this is optional since notes may be edited frequently and logging every change could be noisy.

backend/reviews/templates/grants-recap.html

The template changes are clean:

• CSS styling for tooltip, notes-cell, and text alignment is well organized
• The textarea includes proper permission check with {% if perms.reviews.decision_reviewsession %}
• The read-only fallback shows {{ item.internal_notes|default:"-" }} for users without permission

No blocking issues found.

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Tests Added

I've added two tests to backend/reviews/tests/test_admin.py:

1. test_save_review_grants_updates_internal_notes - Tests that internal notes can be:

   • Added to a grant with empty notes
   • Updated on a grant with existing notes
   • Cleared on a grant with existing notes

2. test_save_review_grants_does_not_update_unchanged_internal_notes - Tests that grants are not unnecessarily updated when notes haven't changed

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Summary

• Reviewed the changed files
• Provided code review feedback
• Added 2 tests for internal notes functionality
• Committed and pushed changes
  | Branch: grants/review-recap-add-internal-notes

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 94.43%. Comparing base (e34c7a8) to head (58ffa06).
⚠️ Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

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