Which of our featured projects are still working/up?

[werdnanoslen]

Down (edited by Matt):

• https://www.open-austin.org/projects/cycle-nearby.html (emailed owner)
  DNS error at http://cycle-nearby.open-austin.org/index.html
  repo at https://github.com/AustinBlues/Good-Sect--Bad-Sect

• https://www.open-austin.org/projects/vote-atx.html (Bring it back online? voteatx-app#28)
  "Not in operation" message at voteatx.us, because data isn't current

• https://www.open-austin.org/projects/lives.html (Update link in repo header courtney-rosenthal/atx-lives-feed#1)
  The code to generate a new .zip of LIVES data still works, but it's no longer running nightly, so the data at data.open-austin.org/LIVES/ hasn't been updated since 2017-01-11. The mirror on data.world says it was last updated in 2016.

• https://www.open-austin.org/projects/austin-restaurant-scores.html (Which of our featured projects are still working/up? #290 (comment))
  Now visible online, but the dataset search function isn't working, and that's really the site's only feature.

• https://www.open-austin.org/projects/bike-buddy.html (Which of our featured projects are still working/up? #290 (comment))
  DNS error at http://bike-buddy.open-austin.org/,
  repo at https://github.com/chip-rosenthal/bike-buddy

• https://www.open-austin.org/projects/austin-recycles.html (Which of our featured projects are still working/up? #290 (comment))
  DNS error at http://austin-recycles.open-austin.org/
  repo at https://github.com/open-austin/austin-recycles

• Recycle Please The site is supposed to crowdsource reports about what buildings don't recycle, but it can't accept reports and I don't think it can show a map. Its database has been taken offline. The front end is up.

• Pet Finder Our projects page says this project's URL is pet-alerts.com, which now redirects to https://www.petalert.us/, a site not controlled by us.

• Open Gov Datasets by Department/Category
  The page loads without any data. It's probably because the nightly update isn't working.

[mateoclarke]

Hey @werdnanoslen. Can I help with this? Could this align at all with Grackl?
https://github.com/cityofaustin/grackl

Could I use OA projects as seed data, and in the process, update the data on project status for OA?

[werdnanoslen]

Oh ya that'd be neat! Would you just use the public read-only API to fetch info? I think that might related to #264 too. This issue is more about me going through all our prjoects and just turning them back on

[werdnanoslen]

@chip-rosenthal On the ATX Scores settings page, there's an error saying the "Domain's DNS record could not be retrieved." I checked the dns settings file, which had this as an entry, but I'm entirely unfamiliar with how to assess it from there.

The same issue might be behind the Bike Buddy and Austin Recycles sites being down. Could you please help and point to docs on how we could diagnose these problems in the future?

[courtney-rosenthal]

@werdnanoslen - I believe the problem may have been that when open-austin.org DNS was migrated to Cloudflare, entries for the microsites were dropped. Whoever is running the DNS would need to add a proper CNAME record.

Also, I think you could delete the CNAME file from the gh-pages branch and just run the app at:

open-austin.github.io/atx-restaurant-scores

[VictoriaODell]

@mscarey has agreed to audit
after auditing the comms team will review.

[mscarey]

Cycle Nearby, Bike Buddy, and Austin Recycles probably all have a similar CNAME issue to the one the restaurant scores app had (they all have CNAME listings in the dns settings file), but I don't have Cloudflare access at the moment and I'm not sure how I'd fix it even if I did.

[mscarey]

Dormant:

• https://www.open-austin.org/projects/lobbying-in-austin.html
  (https://github.com/open-austin/lobbying-in-austin/) Lobbyist chart
  Data about lobbyist clients is no longer on the data portal, so the incomplete-looking visualization is no longer updated.

• Liberate Appraisal Data
  (https://github.com/open-austin/liberate-appraisal-data)
  Not much of a web presence, the data is only available over Google Drive. Someone tried to put it on data.world but didn't finish. Did the file get rejected for being too big?

• PANDA data portal
  Directs users to data.world instead.

• Construction Permits
  The scraper is now adding daily blank files to the repo instead of actual new data. I'm not sure if there's much incentive to get it working because the same thing is available on the data portal.

• Instabus
  Deprecated in favor of other services. Produces XML errors.

• Civic Project CFAPI Data Feed
  Still works, but the list is out of date.

• Open Austin Hack Tasks
  Still works, but the list is out of date.

• TEC Filer
  Never deployed. Probably won't be finished because it's outside the range of projects Open Austin would work on in the future.

• Digital ATX
  The page loads and the site populates with what looks like test data. No updates for a year.

Up:

• Appleseed School to Prison Pipeline content/map (https://github.com/txappleseed/txappleseedmap) Online as Texas Discipline Lab

• harris-county-bookings No website other than Github. Dataset needs improving and needs to be used in an actual research project.

• Fake the News fakenews.open-austin.org

• Budget Party

• ATXBodyCam.com Still works as an informational reference, but it has a breaking news section that's gone dormant.

• Open Data Progress Report This documents a 90-day sprint in 2015, so it never needs updating.

• Socrata Data Portal Analytics These are just scripts for analyzing the data portal, but at least portal_update_tracker.py still works.

• Austin Green Map

• CapMetrics

• Budget In A Box

• Austin Park Equity

• 311 vs 10-ONE
  The page loads, but Chrome gives an "unsafe scripts" warning message before loading the map.

• District Enricher Command line utility, no website.

• Open Austin Data Portal
  This project could be easily confused with the Austin Open Data Portal, PANDA, or OA's data.world page. Maybe it should be merged with something else.

• Cute Pets Austin

• How to Use the City of Austin Open Data Portal
  Wikispaces no longer offers free hosting, so we might want to migrate this site somewhere else.

Up, but not managed by us:

• ATX Floods Now maintained by the City of Austin Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) team.

• Open States (Texas)

• ATX Buildings OSM Import

[courtney-rosenthal]

@mscarey - The three legacy projects you cited (Cycle Nearby, Bike Buddy, and Austin Recycles) probably shouldn't be live on the web. Bike Buddy and Austin Recycles have legacy data (contact info and old recycling pickup routes) that shouldn't be used. If somebody wants to run them, I'd suggest doing something with a Docker container or Vagrant.

[VictoriaODell]

Hey @mscarey is the full audit done? Looks good now we just need to figure out the steps moving forward.

[mscarey]

@VictoriaODell Yeah, I've looked at all the projects now. I think the biggest need is to make a separate page on the website for archived projects to keep them separate from active ones.

Andy's original goal for the audit was to turn projects back on that are no longer working. I think "Liberate Appraisal Data" is the only one that we should clearly try to stand back up, and there's an active Slack channel working on that. We could also consider "Construction Permits" but I think it's better to ask if there's a consensus the broken scraper for that project should just be turned off.

I think another high priority is to better anonymize the records on the harris-county-bookings project.

[courtney-rosenthal]

If you need any assistance with the legacy apps or the ch3data VPS, let me know. I'd be glad to get together sometime.

[mscarey]

Thanks @chip-rosenthal. I didn't even realize data.open-austin.org and Cute Pets had the same hosting as Bike Buddy and Austin Recycles, on ch3data. Are data and Cute Pets the only two projects hosted on ch3data that we should keep live?

[VictoriaODell]

Hey @mscarey should we close out this issue and break it up into pieces? We know where are projects are at now. It's just prioritizing our action.

[mscarey]

Yeah, this can be closed. Work on the appraisal data is in their repo, and there's an open issue about the fate of the broken construction permit scraper.