in development
- 29 May 2012
- further development of the public site
- use elasticsearch for bill search
- improvements to event support
- refresh of settings
- ENABLE_OYSTER setting replaces --oyster
- support for module-specific settings overrides
- support for a new scrape signature (chambers vs. chamber)
- utility function for pulling data from .doc files
- bugfix for pymongo 2.2
- 23 April 2012
- large refactor of billy.site.{browse,www} into billy.web.{admin,public}
- require new scrapelib >= 0.7
- overhaul of event support, greatly improved schema
- scrape: improved vote validation
- API: expose internal id on all objects, including bills
- API: new method for direct lookup of bills by id
- API: added created_at sort to bills
- add support for text extraction from bills
- 2 April 2012
- lots of improvements to billy admin
- general style overhaul
- duplicate_versions view
- API:
- removal of XML
- removal of RSS emitter and broken stats endpoint
- billy-update command line radically changed
- defaults to actually doing work
- -vvv dropped
- --strict dropped, --nostrict now exists
- simplification of how --session/--term work
- drop billy-util districtcsv in favor of an admin view
- previously internal bill ids are now 8 digits
- addition of billy-update --oyster argument, adds tracking of versions
- duplicate_versions is now just that, not versions+documents
- bugfix: stop silently swallowing errors in subject csvs
- 27 February 2012
- add alternate_bill_ids and related functionality (needed for TN)
- updated oysterize command to work with oyster >= 0.3
- added initial work on class-based models
- added new beginning of web frontend
- added run logging work
- bugfix: billy-util broken by jenkins command
- bugfix: random_bill restricted session
- 21 February 2012
- added doc_ids on versions and documents
- API: add boundary_id to legislator responses (experimental)
- browse: MOM legislator merge tool
- browse: improved browse templates & random_bill
- scrapers: --cache_dir argument added
- scrapers: _partial_vote_bill_id flag added for Rhode Island
- bugfix: boundary API method returning first polygon
- bugfix: dotted keys in reports
- bugfix: billy-util retire
- bugfix: unicode error in loadlegislators
- 20 January 2012
- lots of fixes and improvements to browse
- new /bills/ view
- row highlighting
- unmatched_leg_ids page
- other_actions page
- json views
- random_bill/?bad_vote_counts
- new and fixed utils
- districtcsv for generating district CSV stubs
- prunecommittees for removing old committees
- load_legislators fixed
- improve session handling
- session_list in metadata file
- missing sessions trigger an error
- new capitol_maps feature in metadata
- latest_only can be a flag on scrapers that only work for latest term
- addition of optional mimetype on documents & versions
- promote legislator's url to a non + field
- replace all csv usage with unicodecsv
- API: block requests for over 5000 bills at once
- 30 November 2011
- force tests to use a test database
- --mongo_host, --mongo_db, --mongo_port command line options
- sneaky_update_filter option added, can ignore minor updates
- API bugfix when chamber isn't specified on bill lookup
- change importers to use logger instead of unbuffered print statements
- billy-update
- billy-scrape deprecated and replaced with billy-update
- billy-import, billy-bill-scrape, billy-import-districts replaced
- billy-util
- takes place of all utility scripts that didn't get merged into billy-update
- reporting
- removed billy-generate-stats and replaced with robust reporting
- updated browse interface to use reports
- browse interface also got a partial facelift (more to come)
- 26 September 2011
- documentation improvements/moved to readthedocs.org
- load settings from a
billy_settings.pyfile - addition of
SCRAPER_PATHSargument
- 23 September 2011
- packaging bugfix
- 23 September 2011
- initial release as used by Open States