Billy

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**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

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**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

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**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

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**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

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**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

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**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