crowdlaw 1.0.0

Create and edit law collaboratively

Crowd Law

Preamble

What if citizens were to create laws for themselves? If from mass of people, experts and lawyers would participate in this process in a transparent way. Welcome to Crowd Law.

https://crowdlaw-app.org

Introduction

What is this?

Tool to collaboratively create law, so anybody can do it. You can write new and edit existing documents, and you can use it for any other purpose. In other words - Git addon.

Why ?

In 2021 there is no good tool, to write documents by many people. Google Docs and Wiki does not provide good mechanisms for tracking and approving changes, which is crucial when creating transparent law. Computer programmers for a long time know benefits which come with Git system, but it is too complicated for non-technical person. This is why UI was made as easy as possible, to allow everybody use power of Git.

How ?

You edit all documents locally, and when you are ready you send changes to one of public servers. As they have tools, allowing to review, discuss and accept proposed changes, all review process is done on public server.

Installation

Download one of install packages for your system

Install and start using - app should be self-explanatory. If it is not, there is always room for improvement.

Example project

https://gitlab.com/gladykov/example-project-for-crowd-law

PyPi

PyPi module is intended only for preview / development purpose, as main channel of distribution should be provided installer. pip install crowdlaw

I found an issue!

Great, please let me know: Fill Gitlab issue or drop me an email: gladykov gmail com

Documentation

Does not exist (yet)

Your projects live in HOME_DIRECTORY/.crowdlaw/

Contribution

There is still so much work to be done. From testing, translations, code review, refactoring, through building packages to adding new Git providers and developing new functionalities.

Packages preparation

Win:

• pyinstaller main.spec --noconfirm --noconsole
• then use inno setup

Translations

Right now supported languages are English and Polish. PLan is to allow translation of project in Crowdin

Roadmap ?

More like a wish list, as it depends on future needs of users and involvement of Open Source community:

• testing, testing, testing
• refactoring and review as this is initial work
• store credentials in more secure way
• Github adapter (right now only Gitlab is supported)
• utilising Markdown and WYSIWYM to create more rich text, which would still be easy to review by non-technical person

Underlying technology

Python + PySimpleGUI + GitPython + Gitlab API packages.

Debugging

Logs live in : HOME_DIR/.crowdlaw/crowdlaw.log

Code style

Blackd formatter and isort are your friends. Line-length 88. PRs are validated against them and finally by pycodestyle

License

GPLv3