Fedora Elections

What is fedora-election?

fedora-elections is a web application written in python and based on flask. It implements the Range Voting system (http://rangevoting.org).

This project was developed using fedoraproject requests, but, can be easily adapted to other projects. Fedora-elections is integrated with the Fedora Account System (FAS).

Running from a checkout:

Install Prerequisites

Before launching fedora-elections, the following packages should be installed:

httpd
libxslt
python
python-backports-ssl_match_hostname
python-bunch
python-chardet
python-fedora
python-fedora-flask
python-flask
python-flask-sqlalchemy
python-flask-wtf
python-jinja2
python-kitchen
python-lxml
python-openid
python-ordereddict
python-ordereddict
python-setuptools
python-simplejson
python-six
python-sqlalchemy0.7
python-urllib3
python-wtforms

Get the source code

The project is hosted on https://fedorahosted.org/

More precisely at: https://fedorahosted.org/elections

You can obtain the code via:

git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/elections.git

For commodity reason, a clone is available on github: https://github.com/fedora-infra/elections

Configure the application

An example configuration file is provided at: files/fedora-elections.cfg

Create a database

Run:

python createdb.py

Starting the Application

There are 2 ways to start the application:

without apache
with apache

How to start without apache on http://127.0.0.1:5000 (useful for development):
```
./runserver
```
How to start with http

Next copy the file fedora-elections.conf file to your apache conf.d directory:
```
sudo cp files/fedora-elections.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/.
```
Place the file fedora-elections.wsgi for example in /var/www
```
sudo cp files/fedora-elections.wsgi /var/www
```
Adjust the apache configuration file to point to it

Adjust the wsgi file installed in /var/www to point to fedora_elections

Place the fedora-elections configuration file in /etc/fedora-elections/fedora-elections.cfg
```
sudo mkdir -p /etc/fedora-elections/
sudo cp files/fedora-elections.cfg /etc/fedora-elections/
```
Restart apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
How to contribute

If you find bug or want to propose ideas or stuff to be implemented or if you are interested to became a developer for this project just ask on #fedora-admin irc channel on irc.freenode.net or use our web site https://fedorahosted.org/elections.

Licence

fedora-elections is licenced under GPL v2.