LiquidFeedback Frontend

This page is dedicated to the frontend of LiquidFeedback. You may also want to visit the main page of LiquidFeedback.

Our frontend reference is being implemented in Lua using our web application framework WebMCP. It is available under the terms of the MIT/X11-License as well.

To report or look for bugs please have a look at our public bug tracker.

Dependencies

• LiquidFeedback Core
• Lua 5.1
• WebMCP
• RocketWiki or any other program, which translates plain-text to HTML (Modified versions of RocketWiki named “LiquidFeedback Edition” can be found here. They disallow the use of images.)
• Image converting utility (i.e. convert from ImageMagick)

Releases

• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.2.2.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.2.2 or v2.2.3 and WebMCP v1.2.5)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.2.1.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.2.2 or v2.2.3 and WebMCP v1.2.5)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.2.0.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.2.2 or v2.2.3 and WebMCP v1.2.5)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.1.3.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.1.0 and WebMCP v1.2.5)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.1.2.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.1.0 and WebMCP v1.2.5)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.1.1.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.1.0 and WebMCP v1.2.5)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.1.0.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.1.0 and WebMCP v1.2.5)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.0.5.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.0.12 and WebMCP v1.2.4)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.0.4.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.0.12 and WebMCP v1.2.4)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.0.3.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.0.12 and WebMCP v1.2.4)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.0.2.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.0.12 and WebMCP v1.2.4)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.0.1.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.0.12 and WebMCP v1.2.4)
• liquid_feedback_frontend-v2.0.0.tar.gz
  (use with Core v2.0.12 and WebMCP v1.2.3)

Older beta releases of the frontend to be used with the old Core v1.3.1 are found here.

Repositories

• mercurial repository (reviewed)
• mercurial repository (unreviewed)

Changes

• 2013-03-20: Version 2.2.2
  • Updated Greek translation
• 2013-03-18: Version 2.2.1
  • Support for Proportional ordering of suggestions
  • Bugfix regarding ordering of revoked initiatives
• 2013-03-10: Version 2.2.0
  • Support for new transaction model used by Core v2.2.x
  • Support for Harmonic weighting of initiatives within an issue
  • Minor bugfixes
    • Jump to top of suggestions after selecting another page in the suggestion listing
    • Fixed non-translated state strings
    • Fixed wrong display of notice about canceled issues
    • Globally changed the string "cancelled"(BE) to "canceled"(AE)
  • Added configuration example for free timings used with polling mode
• 2012-12-10: Version 2.1.3
  • Added missing HTML encoding of diff output (security related bugfix)
  • Fixed handling of notify email when registering
  • Better handling of unexpected errors in voting related JavaScript code
  • Better formatting of intervals
  • Correctly handle selected formatting engine for member profiles
  • Do not add own support when creating initiatives in poll mode
  • Show link to terms of use only when terms of use are available
• 2012-10-20: Version 2.1.2
  • Serious bug fixed, which caused votes being ignored (counted as abstentions) when using Firefox webbrowser
• 2012-10-15: Version 2.1.1
  • Bugfix regarding formatting of voting comment (newline characters were discarded in input)
• 2012-10-15: Version 2.1.0
  • New features
    • Poll mode for privileged members, optionally with free phase timings
    • Voting comments
    • Do not vote directly
  • Support for new password hashing algorithms (security related)
  • Changed locking behavior to avoid deadlocks
• 2012-08-18: Version 2.0.5
  • Do not notify a member by mail about events caused by him/herself
  • Display how long ago an issue has been closed
  • Fixed public view of areas (show latest events)
  • Missing tabs for public access levels
  • Support public access of avatar images via fastpath
  • Show indirect majority in policy list
  • Link policy view in policy list
  • Configurable debug trace, disabled by default
  • Always disable debug trace when writing password hash to database (fixes security issue regarding setting weak passwords on public computers)
  • Fixed bug #1321 (displaying wrong avatar)
  • Fixed bug (show extended voting filter only in open issues view)
  • Preliminary translation and help messages in Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans), automatically converted from Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)
  • Revised versions of Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) translation and help messages
• 2012-08-17: Version 2.0.4
  • Improved filtering of latest events (like issue filters)
  • New filter "voted" (direct/by delegation) for issue and event filters
  • Revised Chinese translation
  • Missing Chinese help texts added
  • Bug fix (better handling of not available filter options)
• 2012-08-12: Version 2.0.3
  • Italian translation added
  • Traditional chinese translation added
  • Dutch translation added
  • Greek translation updated
  • Improved example config
  • Improved unit editing in admin backend
  • Bug fix for handling accounts without identification in admin backend
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements
• 2012-07-06: Version 2.0.2
  • Fixed display of wrong initiatives in event list
• 2012-07-06: Version 2.0.1
  • Fix of major CSS issues with Internet Explorer
  • Fix of memory leak while sending notifications
    (needs update to WebMCP 1.2.4 to be fixed completely)
  • Rename of public access levels to more accurate names
  • Public access level defaults to none to be failsafe
  • Added new access level to show everything including profile pages
  • Prohibit registeration of locked accounts
• 2012-06-29: Version 2.0.0