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diff --git a/docs/_posts/2013-02-22-bodies.md b/docs/_posts/2013-02-22-bodies.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d65640eb --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/_posts/2013-02-22-bodies.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Version 1.1 - Bodies +author: matthew +--- + +<img class="r" src="/assets/posts/big-head-small.jpeg" width="320" height="240" alt="Big Beautiful Face Statue in Tenerife by epSos.de"> + +Today we're releasing **version 1.1** of the FixMyStreet platform. The [AMI](/install/ami/) has +been updated and the [install script](/install/install-script/) will automatically now install +this version. + +The main change since version 1.0 is the addition of **bodies**. Historically, +FixMyStreet has assumed that the administrative areas that are returned from +MapIt are the same thing as the bodies to which the reports will be sent. This +has led over time to a number of workarounds when this hasn't been the case, +either in manual code changes in FixMyStreet or by adding new types to a MapIt +install, and dealing with it in that way. + +We have updated the code so that FixMyStreet holds its own records of bodies to +which reports can be sent, and the MapIt area -- or areas -- that they cover. +This is conceptually much clearer, as well as making it much easier to have a +body covering multiple areas, an area with multiple bodies, or a combination. + +Smaller functional changes in this release include admin improvements (it now +looks like the front end site, and has add a number of other additions), and a +couple of new configuration variables, `DO_NOT_REPLY_EMAIL` and +`SEND_REPORTS_ON_STAGING`, to make debugging a little easier, along with a +`--debug` option to send-reports. Also, we found on the [mailing +list](/community/) a couple of times that people ran into trouble because their +MapIt had debug turned on, and FixMyStreet didn't cope well with the debug +output MapIt included in its responses. This has now been fixed. + +Many others of the commits in the past few months have been for various +installations of the codebase, from the forthcoming FixMyBarangay in the +Philippines to local UK council installs such as Oxfordshire or Bromley. These +have in many cases led to small improvements and bugfixes to the central +codebase, which can then be used by any reusers of the code. + +Lastly, all the strings in the JavaScript are now translatable, along with a +few other strings that had previously been missed; do let us know if you +find any other strings that can't be translated and we'll look into it. + |