- removed events functionality
- removed admin functionality
- removed popularity counts
- various production fixes
- 2 June 2017
- Django 1.9 support
- some Py3 compatibility
- add mimetype for docx
- remove isdev
- essentially the final release for scraping purposes, future releases will start paring down unused functionality until billy is no more :)
- 13 January 2017
- Django 1.8 LTS
- fix piston errors (again)
- lots of small tweaks from OS upgrade
- add timeout on upstream API calls
- 18 November 2015
- added ability to override _scraped_name field for legislators
- 2 November 2015
- removed ability to edit legislator offices in admin interface
- 29 October 2015
- enable editing of legislator offices in admin interface
- 18 September 2015
- add Docker deployment
- upgrade to Django 1.6
- upgrade to scrapelib 1.0
- enhance legislative division lookup
- improve CSV handling
- fix Piston errors
- pin older module versions
- 16 January 2014
- more CSRF bugfixing
- ensure_indexes command
- beginnings of news entry api
- add newsapi methods
- add last_action_since API parameter
- bugfix for committee having itself as parent
- bugfix for committee display on site
- bugfix for ElasticSearch parse errors causing 500s
- miscellaneous schema updates
- switch to scrapelib >= 0.8
- switch from pyes to pyelasticsearch
- simplify module loading mechanism
- 16 February 2013
- major changes in how ElasticSearch component works
- functional (Scout-synced) favorites support
- drastically improved mongodb indexing on bills collection
- add LOCKSMITH_REGISTRATION_URL and ENABLE_ELASTICSEARCH_PUSH settings
- add legislature_url to metadata
- more flexible support for non-2 letter abbreviations
- more robust public views for events
- allow joint committee votes
- add --pdb and related options to billy-update
- Michigan-specific exemption in fix_bill_id
- bugfix: correct centroid in boundary api method
- bugfix: stop activating legislators w/o active role
- bugfix: handle unicode in searches
- bugfix: ensure_csrf on favorites-wielding views
- 5 December 2012
- completion of move from 'state' to flexible LEVEL_FIELD
- new type: speeches
- documentation improvements
- beginnings of generic templates for billy.web.public
- change to metadata handling of chambers
- use updated represent-boundaries instead of django-boundaryservice
- bugfix for latest pymongo
- basic API tests
- 1 November 2012
- improved committee_id matching
- added bounding box to district polygon API
- added 'other_parties' to legislator schema
- events: ical support
- merging of admin view & public view a bit
- introduction of billy.core for settings & dbs
- improved action categorization in billy.scrape.actions
- bring fulltext processing in to billy
- logging colors!
- lots of cleanup & deduplication of code
- test improvements w/ fixtures now
- 31 August 2012
- new summary field on bills
- enable editing legislators in admin
- leg_id view replacing more manual_data csvs
- automatically attempt to link actions to votes and bills
- support fields API parameter in more places
- popularity tracking added
- fix to how roles are shown for old legislators
- limits to number of items displayed in public view when counts are
extremely high
- basic user-account & dev-mode support
- deeper influence explorer integration
- addition of import filters
- ability to create data quality exceptions
- more tests for models
- 30 July 2012
- first truly usable version of billy.web.public
- remove retire, load_legislators, and prune_committees commands in favor of admin
- more admin improvements including subject support and cleaned up reporting
- new offices support on legislators
- refactor of billy.models
- db: denormalize votes into own collection on bill import
- db: add action_dates to bills
- unification of numerous settings into API_KEY
- bugfix for unicode data in dumpjson
- bugfix for name matching being too loose from manual_data
- bugfix for billy-update deleting metadata without --scrape
- 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