Apps: Democracy UI should allow delegation

[jacogr]

(Replaces short overview in https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/838)

Goal:

The democracy module should work properly with the current-generation of democracy features.

Background:

Delegation was added to democracy in https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/1827 - basically this allow you to designate somebody else to perform actions on your behalf. As it stands the UI does not cater for this functionality.

Pre-requisites:

• Familiarity (or an interest to learn) the democracy module
• An interest to extend the API derive functionality

Actions:

• The user should be able to delegate to somebody - a suggestion is to follow the same approach we have in staking, i.e. an "Account Actions" tab where the user can view his/her accounts and then perform the delegation functions
• The voting calculations should take the delegated tokens into account.
• For the last point, here we will have to make changes to https://github.com/polkadot-js/api/blob/master/packages/api-derive/src/democracy/referendumVotesFor.ts to pull the delegees

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[kuhnchris]

So, basically, in here you want to have a new tab for delegation + implement the API for that, correct?

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[jacogr]

Ummm, he actually asked a question in the Polkadot Watercooler today (06:57 Berlin time), specifically around this -

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kshitij98
Hi, I am working on the democracy app UI. I had to extend the democracy api as well for the same, but I am not able to use the locally built @polkadot-js/api in the apps project. Can anyone help me with the same?
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[kshitij98]

Sorry for the confusion. I have added a WIP pull request.

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[Tbaut]

Not sure if that isn't too late but I think it'd be nice to have a delegation flow such as what we plan to have for validators (see here) rather than what we currently have. Meaning that instead of showing all accounts, you only show the account that already delegates in order to have a better overview. And have a button at the top to delegate. The modal would then let you choose for what account you wish to delegate.

[jacogr]

@Tbaut baby steps. Let’s get the delegation in as defined here then enhance as a follow up.

[kuhnchris]

Yeah, first you need the functionality as basically implementable as possible, and then from there you can setup more complex systems, trying to do everything at once usually tends to cause overcomplicated and monolithic systems, so, totally agreeing with @jacogr :-)

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Certainly don’t want to change bounties mid-stream, or create confusion. So exactly as specified.

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@jacogr This bounty returned to Open status. I want to give this a try. Shall I work on this?

[jacogr]

Please do, it is a hairy one, but really cool at the same time. Ask away where anything is unclear.

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I have applied through gitcoin. Please approve me.

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Hi @jacogr, I would be busy with something else for about a week. If this bounty is time sensitive, please inform me, I will then stop work on gitcoin. Otherwise I will be able to work on this after a week time.

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[Tbaut]

I'd like to tackle that.

For the last point, here we will have to make changes to https://github.com/polkadot-js/api/blob/master/packages/api-derive/src/democracy/referendumVotesFor.ts to pull the delegees

a long time has passed since then, it's now in here but it's tightly related to referendum voting.
Do you think I should still use a derive for it? I was thinking of calling directly democracy.votesOf on the users accounts otherwise.

[jacogr]

The voting does show delegations, so it is not applicable.

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