itsadok / open-knesset

A project aimed at making the israeli Knesset more transparent. Python and Django based

Installation:

For Ubuntu, make sure the following packages are installed:

sudo apt-get install python python-imaging python-setuptools

• python bootstrap.py

• bin/buildout

• bin/test

• bin/django syncdb --migrate # do not create a superuser account

• bin/django loaddata dev

• bin/django createsuperuser # to create your superuser account

• bin/django runserver

• vi src/knesset/local_settings.py # create your local setting file to store a bunch of things that you do NOT want to push to everyone # NOTE: NEVER push settings.py with local changes!

• sample input for local_settings.py: DATABASE_NAME = '<your-local-path>dev.db' # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.

Trouble?

• Some of the mirrors are flaky so you might need to run the buildout several times until all downloads succeed.
• currently using MySQL as the database engine is not supported
• on bin/buildout, problems with getting distribution for 'PIL' can be fixed by installing the python-dev package

Update - get your branch updated with the changes done by others

• cd Open-Knesset
• git pull git://github.com/hasadna/Open-Knesset.git master
• bin/buildout # only needed if the file buildout.cfg was changed; but can't hurt you if you run it every time.
• bin/django syncdb --migrate # do not create a superuser account
• bin/test
• bin/django runserver

if you get the add_persons_aliases alert try bin/django migrate --fake persons 0001

Updating the translation strings:

• cd src/knesset
• ../../bin/django makemessages -a -e txt,html <edit src/knesset/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/django.po, find your strings and change it to the correct translation>
• ../../bin/django compilemessages

Windows Users:

Prerequisites:

• Download and install Python 2.7 from http://www.python.org/download/windows/
• Make sure python and svn are in the system path (control panel->system->advanced->environment variables)
• Download and install svn client from http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download
• Download and install git by following http://help.github.com/win-git-installation/
• Generate an ssh key to your git account by following http://help.github.com/msysgit-key-setup/

Running the installation instructions:

• open command line change dir to the Open-Knesset folder
• run the installation instructions above (Without the $ ofcourse and with backslashes)

Checking in

see http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html for a short list of options with git

First time

Every other time

• git diff # to know what changed since your last commit
• git add -filename # if you added new files (commit doesn't add new files)
• git commit -a # commit all changes to your local repository
• commit note should include fix#: [number] of the redline bug number youre fixing (if any)
• git push # push changes to git repo
• go to git, do a "pull request" from [release manager] so code will get to production

Updating Text

Adding a field to existing model

• add the field you want to model sample_model
• see our naming conventions for migrations: under the directory "migrations" under the model's folder - notice the number is added automatically
• so 0003_add_members_blog is actually add_members_blog
• bin/django schemamigration knesset.sample_model --auto naming_convention_change_name
• bin/django syncdb --migrate