Changes.md

Changelog for WriteOff.pm

I don't think this file is very necessary, as it seems more useful to put changes in commit messages. This file will remain for the commits which unhelpfully read "See Changes.md", but from now on most changes will go in commit messages.

v0.36 - 03 Sep 2013

• Added cacheing of some TT output
• Added WriteOff::Action::Fetch and refractored stuff appropriately
• Made timelording easier
• Let events have no voting rounds, and hence no results
• Enabled changing of email addresses
• Increased fidelity of email tokens by abstracting them to their own table, localised to the type of email sent (meaning someone can't use a verification token to reset their password, for example)
• Dropped last_mailed_at column from users table, using cache for rate limiting instead
• Dropped login_attempts table, using the cache for rate limiting instead

v0.35 - 20 Jul 2013

• Renamed WriteOff::Helpers to WriteOff::Util
• Renamed WriteOff::View::HTML to WriteOff::View::TT
• Renamed the horribly named check_datetimes_ascend to sorted and removed unnecessary use and redefinition of it throughout the app
• Split DateTime::duration_since_now into DateTime::delta and DateTime::delta_html
• Added some tests for WriteOff::Util
• Implemented template output cacheing with Template::Plugin::Cache
• EBook output format for stories (credit Kazunekit)
• Made it possible to change the TT wrapper per-request via stash

v0.34 - 29 Jun 2013

• Added ability for people to resend verification emails
• Genericised verification and recovery emails since they're basically the same thing (send email with token, accept token and do stuff)
• Added more descriptive error messages to email sending
  • Catches errors from View::Email and doesn't update the user's last_mailed_at if the email failed to send. This way people don't have to wait for the rate limiting to wear off to reattempt sending the email
• Moved the sidebar hiding logic from javascript into a css media query
• Added some more border-radius rules for the dropdown navs

v0.33 - 24 Jun 2013

• Moved "Event archive" link from event/list.tt to sitenav
• Fixed bug in prelim distr algorithm which resulted in an infinite loop in search of a valid cell to swap with
• Added nuke_prelim_round method to Result::Event, which does what it says on the tin
• Rewrote Schema::Result::* modules to get rid of dbicdump cruft
• Made separators in the title a little fancier
• Changed Makefile.PL to install dependencies using App::cpanminus
  • Included App::cpanminus into lib/
• Moved HTML::FillInForm from inc/ to lib/
• Removed inc/
• Renamed config files from _writeoff.yml and writeoff.yml to config-template.yml and config.yml respectively
• Moved database to data/WriteOff.db
• Removed writeoff_ prefix from scripts
• Moved scripts into their own libs, called by command.pl
  • Finished artist rename and user merge scripts
  • Updated backup log (was log_archive.pl) command to work for new location of log files

v0.32 - 18 Feb 2013

• New logger, saves to separate files for different levels

v0.31 - 16 Feb 2013

• News CRUD tasks/pages added
• Added a sidebar
  • Currently contains news and event navigation
• Made the CSRF token a hashed version of the sessionid, rather than naively dropping the sessionid into the form

v0.30 - 15 Feb 2013

• Added option for having no prompt round to events
• Added reset_schedules() to Result::Event to make round addition/removal smoother

v0.29 - 20 Jan 2013

• Added script for uploading fics to fimfiction

v0.28 - 12 Dec 2012

• Removed br-eater class from blocks in BBCode, rather just removing any
  s that follow as a part of the parsing
• Changed Helpers::simple_uri to consider common word-separating punctuation like slashes and dashes
• Added a bunch of scripts for data management
• Added a table of contents to the FAQ
• Added a config setting to make the site read only
• Made judge votes listed in the Controller::Event::results
  • Utilised session data to determine what record view the user is in
• Added action Event::overview for permalinks to event overviews
• Added hovertext column to Images
• Art forms now preview the selected image
• Art items now editable
• Changed rules:
  • Typed with markdown for better readibility
  • Added clause about using your own artwork
  • Added clause about vote doctoring
• Fixed the markup of this document
• Added permalinks to event listings

v0.27 - 26 Nov 2012

• News tab added (WIP, not actually dynamic right now)
• WriteOff::Helpers added to store miscellaneous useful subs shared throughout the application
• Fixed password confirmation fields not letting special characters in passwords
• Style refit to use html5boilerplate's stylesheet template and normalize.css
  • Lots of renaming to be more semantic/neat
• Complete replacement of "slim" table style with the "solid" one (woo!)
• Private-round finalists display for the public in Controller::Vote::private
• Added a dynamically loaded table of contents to the FAQ (finally...)

v0.26 - 13 Nov 2012

• Added font-size chooser for story views

v0.25 - 7 Nov 2012

• Cleaned up title logic
• Put a regex on id_uri extractors instead of int() with no warnings
• Made Controller::Root::assert_valid_session for checking against CSRF
• Delete checks now fetched as dialogs
• Fixed action attribute on some forms that refer to themselves
• Added new table class, solid, currently used for the scoreboard
  • I grow weary of the slim table that's used on most of the tables right now

v0.24 - 4 Nov 2012

• Boatload of style changes
• Scoreboard data put into multiple tables for score breakdowns
• Awards are a table in the database now, rather than configured
• Made the wrapper render partial for XMLHttpRequests so that dialogs can be fetched easily
• All dialogs are now fetched instead of embedded
• Added config for Google Analytics
• Put full id_uri for event listing IDs (starting with a number is valid in HTML5)

v0.23 - 27 Oct 2012

• Started using Google Analytics on the site
• Cleaned up popup messages to be more lightweight in the templates
• Added a Contact page
• Update Terms of Service to be more professional looking
• Swapped html5shiv for modernizr
• Added humans.txt
• Added a html filter before rendering markdown, as markdown doesn't do that by default

v0.22 - 19 Oct 2012

• New navbar and other layout changes
• Art gallery done with data URI base64 images to reduce the number of server requests
  • IE8 and prior have a directive to still work with the gallery

v0.21 - 18 Oct 2012

• Art gallery
• Related images/artworks listed in galleries
• Fixed Controller::Fic::form image_id logic bug
• Art public voting
• Art results
• Results page made columnar to use space more effectively
• Reserved artist/author names for first person to use them (using funky virtual tables, woo)
• Added logs for Controller::Fic::edit

v0.20 - 16 Oct 2012

• VoteRecord filling and other various logic
• Prelim distribution
  • Algorithm surprisingly simpler when using an array rather than a hash
• Added public story candidate logic
• Judge distribution
• Volunteer distribution
• Generalised Vote::Public so that Vote::Public::art will be easily implementable
• Added URL seek to event listing's accordion
• Added version numbers to css/js files so that new versions will update despite user caches
• Added app version to footer
• Ensured scheduler does not execute schedules twice
• +Hugbox score
• Decided that timestamps on changelogs might be a good idea

v0.19

• Removed delay between events
  • Prelim rounds start with +leeway time so that stories submitted dring the leeway time don't miss out on the prelim distriution
• Massiely optimised the result listing page
  • Unfortunately, could not get a super-awesome all-encompassing query for all the data in one big sweep, but this is still good enough
• Misc template fidgeting
• Request logging logs the referer of requests without the same origin

v0.18

• Delete form prettied up
• Every submit/edit form prettied up
• CSS made more generalised (also prettied up, because that word isn't trite by now!)
• Fic submit/edit can choose one or more related art items now
• Fic editing uses the same form as submitting, so you can edit anything basically
• Password recover page added
• Email sending stuff put in isolated subs
  • Verification email doesn't send the password out now for security reasons
• Fics don't point to other fics until gallery is open
• Added link to plain text view on fic gallery
• Item deletion logs now
• Settings form tidied up
• User list HTML view added
  • No public link yet though, because it's kind of useless + ugly
• Added a clean_unverified_users method to the cleanup schedule, dousing the system of the unpure
• Started using proper many_to_many create functions
• Replaced up all the messy js with inline HTML5 validation
  • Miracle shit that is
• Probably broke something

v0.17

• Added placeholder templates/actions for art gallery and voting, and prelim and private voting
• Prettied up the event/edit form
• Tidied up the CSS

v0.16

• Email notifications
• Nicer forms (in some places)
  • HTML5 validation woo

v0.15

• Wooden spoon award
• Confetti award
• Cleaned up voterecord/list
• Cleaned up position-determining routines by taking them out of templates
• Optimised is_manipulable_by methods
• Pushed event archive clock back 1 day, so that recently finished events don't go straight in the archive

v0.14

• Put parsers where they belong (for reals this time)
• Organiser/Judge CRUD added
• Organiser functionality fully implemented
• Rule sets and custom rule funtionality added
• Cleaned up the templates and stylesheet a little
• Event listing more detailed
• Removed second HTML view for emails
  • The wrapper is now smart enough to not need it
• Added JSON view
• Added a FillForm check to Root/end, instead of doing it the silly way

v0.13

• Made public votes saveable to session data

v0.12

• Moved event management view to event/$id/...
  • Cleans up the logic and makes implementing organisers much easier
• VoteRecord view/delete added
• Scoreboard controller added
• Admin controller removed - actions put in other controllers
• DateTimes now format into time tags, with title attribute as a full RFC2822 date time in UTC
• Added a number of title attributes to truncated table data
• Fixed Cron controller
• Set $ENV{TZ} to UTC and configurable at deployment level
• Log archiver script added
• Cleaned up FAQ and Rules page to validate as HTML5
• Added login hook for testing purposes

v0.11

• Scoreboard done
• FAQ cleaned up

v0.10

• Public voting implemented
• BBCode parsing done up proper
• Scoreboard half done
• Heats done up proper
• Discovered the magic of pre-defined TT subs
  • i.e., Date math done up proper

v0.09

• Fixed some forms & cleaned up the code
• Parsers put where they belong & links done up right w/o any messy view code
• Case-sensitive collation put on columns that should have it
• Tests should actually work now
• Database backup script added
• Time to actually implement the voting now? Haha, maybe...
• Nobody reads these anyway

v0.08

• Logs

v0.07

• Events able to have a pre-set title for descriptiveness before the prompt overwrites it
• Submission pages requiring logins made more guest-friendly
• BBCode parser put where it belongs
• Configurable footer addendum added
• FAQ made clearer
• Prompt submission-limit bug fixed
• Register form mailme bug fixed
• Added counter measures to login-attempt spam
• Site's font chain made super long so I look like I know what I'm doing

v0.06

• Rules added
• FAQ mostly completed
• Stories and images given a seed for randomised listing order
• Form validation solidified
• DB Schema (mostly) finalised
• URLs on items made descriptive
• Soul-barter clause added to Terms of Service
• Placeholders for votes and galleries in place
  • Will be complete before planned minific event starts
• Let's do this

v0.05

• Per-event blurb added
  • Editable with markdown (should only use links in lists, mostly)
• Prompt submission/voting logic ironed out
  • Submit/vote pages made to look similar to others for consistency
  • Prompt submit page lets users know how many prompt submissions they have left
• Submission count added to submission pages (in lieu of providing every bit of submission data)
• Event archive added with proper nav. in place
• General refractoring (good stuff that nobody else care about...)

Added table for event-user association. Possibly going to use this for adding organisers to events, such that they can delete/modify/view entries in given events (i.e., so they can organise it).

Considering doing accolades as purely numerical, following the formula m - 2p + 1, where m is the count of entries and p is the position of the scored item. This way, player scores can be tallied together in one scoresheet without winners in a contest of 5 entries being scored equally to a winner in a contest of 50 entries.

It'd also be easier to implement.

Made vote records more generalised, such that the addition of a private judging round can happen. Also considering the possibility of using votes on artworks, though how that ties in to event flow... I'm not sure. Something to ponder, but not a top priority in any case.

v0.04

• FAQ added
• Word limits now on per-event basis
• Interim set to global 1 hour
• Scheduler table and cron tasks added
• Row logic in row classes
• Generalised some resultset logic
• Added TODO

v0.03

• Added CSRF counter-measures
• Business rules on submissions
• Prompts
  • Submission
  • Deletion
  • Voting (uses Elo comparison)

v0.02

• Changed paths on item manipulation to (fic|art)/*/(view|edit|delete)

v0.01

##Implemented

###Users

• Register
• Verify
• Settings
• View and manipulate own submissions (of implemented types)
• Access controls (e.g., restricting admin tasks to the admin)

###Events

• Create
• Event flow
• List
• Submission time logic

###Stories

• Submit
• View (parsed BBCode and plaintext)
• Edit
• Delete

###Images

• Submit
• Thumbnailing
• View
• Delete

##To Be Implemented

###Events

• Results

###Prompts

• Submit
• View
• Delete
• Comparison logic (ELO Ranking)

###Heats

• Request
• Vote

###Vote Records

• Distribution for participants
• Distribution for volunteers
• Relative voting (for prelims)
• Scaled voting (for finals)
• Prelim → Finals flow
• Results

###Documentation

• Everything
• FAQ
• Flow-chart of event operation

Fic submissions require a login. Art submissions don't, but you won't be able to manipulate your submissions without one. Art rounds and prelim rounds are both optional on a per-event basis.

I suspect that dealing with the vote distribution will take longer than other components, since a nice interface to the voting will take a bit of javascript magic. That said, the main algorithm for participant distributions is already written from earlier; it just needs a little wrapping to be more modular.

The only thing that isn't trivial is the volunteer distribution. I'm still thinking about how I should handle that. Suggestions are welcome.