Change Log¶
1.3.1¶
Release date: 26 May 2017
- Fixed bug that allowed duplicate emoji to be occasionally generated
1.3.0 (Genetta)¶
Release date: 9 May 2017
- Added the ability to mark speeches as duplicates when entering ballots so that they will not show in speaker tabs, intended for use with ‘iron-man’ speeches and swing speakers
- Reworked venue constraints and venue display options by streamlining “venue groups” and “venue constraint categories” into a single “venue category” type, with options for how they are used and displayed
- Relocated the Random (now renamed ‘Private’) URL pages to the Setup section and added pages for printing/emailing out the ballot submission URLs
- Reworked the simple data importer (formerly the visual importer) to improve its robustness
- Improved guards against having no current round set, and added a new page for manually overriding the current round (under Configuration).
- Added a preference for controlling whether assistant users have access to pages that can reveal draw or motions information ahead of their public release
- Added the ability to limit tab releases to a given number of ranks (i.e. only show the top 10 speakers)
- Added the ability to redact individual person’s identifying details from speaker tabs
- Added the ability for user passwords to be easily reset
- Added a minimal set of default feedback questions to newly created Tournaments.
- When a tournament’s current round is set, redirect to a page where it can be set, rather than crashing
- A number of other minor bug fixes and enhancements
1.2.3¶
Release date: 17 March 2017
- Improved the display of the admin ballot entry form on mobile devices
- A number of other minor bug fixes
1.2.2¶
Release date: 4 March 2017
- Protected debate-team objects from cascaded deletion, and added warning messages with guidance when users would otherwise do this
- A number of other minor bug fixes
1.2.1¶
Release date: 25 February 2017
- Printable feedback forms will now display the default rating scale, any configured introduction text, and better prompt you to add additional questions
- A number of other minor bug fixes
1.2.0 (Foldex)¶
Release date: 15 February 2017
- Changed the core workflow by splitting display- and motion- related activities into separate pages to simplify each stage of running a round
- Added support for Docker-based installations to make local/offline installations much more simple
- Added a “Tabbykitten” version of Tabbycat that can be deployed to Heroku without a needing a credit/debit card
- Added button to load a demo tournament on the ‘New Tournament’ page so it is easier to test-run Tabbycat
- Changed venue groups to be separate to venue constraint categories
- Modified the licence to clarify that donations are required for some tournaments and added a more explicit donations link and explanation page
- Added information about autosave status to the adjudicator allocations page
- Added configurable side names so that tournaments can use labels like “Proposition”/”Opposition” instead of “Affirmative”/”Negative”
- Started work on basic infrastructure for translations
1.1.7¶
Release date: 31 January 2017
- Yet more minor bug fixes
- The auto-allocation UI will now detail your minimum rating setting better
- Added guidance on database backups to documentation
1.1.6¶
Release date: 19 January 2017
- A number of minor bug fixes
- Added basic infrastructure for creating tabbycat translations
1.1.4¶
Release date: 25 November 2016
- Redesigned the footer area to better describe Tabbycat and to promote donations and related projects
- Slight tweaks to the site homepage and main menus to better accomodate the login/log out links
- A few minor bug fixes and improvements to error reporting
1.1.3¶
Release date: 15 September 2016
- Fixed bug affecting some migrations from earlier versions
- Made latest results show question mark rather than crash if a team is missing
- Fixed bug affecting the ability to save motions
- Fixed bug preventing draw flags from being displayed
1.1.2¶
Release date: 14 September 2016
- Allow panels with even number of adjudicators (with warnings), by giving chair the casting vote
- Removed defunct person check-in, which hasn’t been used since 2010
- Collapsed availability database models into a single model with Django content types
- Collapsed optional fields in action log entries into a single generic field using Django content types
- Added better warnings when attempting to create an elimination round draw with fewer than two teams
- Added warnings in Edit Database view when editing debate teams
- Renamed “AIDA pre-2015” break rule to “AIDA 1996”
1.1.1¶
Release date: 8 September 2016
- Fixed a bug where the team standings and team tab would crash when some emoji were not set
1.1.0 (Egyptian Mau)¶
Release date: 3 September 2016
- Added support for the United Asian Debating Championships style
- Added support for the World Schools Debating Championships style
- Made Windows 8+ Emoji more colourful
- Fixed an incompatability between Vue and IE 10-11 which caused tables to not render
- Minor bug fixes and dependency updates
1.0.1¶
Release date: 19 August 2016
- Fixed a minor bug with the visual importer affecting similarly named institutions
- Fixed error message when user tries to auto-allocate adjudicators on unconfirmed or released draw
- Minor docs edits
1.0.0 (Devon Rex)¶
Release date: 16 August 2016
- Redesigned and redeveloped adjudicator allocation page
- Redesigned interface, featuring clearer displays of conflict and diversity information
- Changes to importances and panels are now automatically saved
- Added debate “liveness” to help identify critical rooms—many thanks to Thevesh Theva
- Panel score calculations performed live to show strength of voting majorities
- New features
- Added record pages for teams and adjudicators
- Added a diversity tab to display demographic information about participants and scoring
- Significant general improvements
- Shifted most table rendering to Vue.js to improve performance and design
- Drastically reduced number of SQL queries in large tables, e.g. draw, results, tab
- Break round management
- Completed support for break round draws
- Simplified procedure for adding remarks to teams and updating break
- Reworked break generation code to be class-based, to improve future extensibility
- Added support for break qualification rules: AIDA Australs, AIDA Easters, WADL
- Feedback
- Changed Boolean fields in AdjudicatorFeedbackQuestion to reflect what they actually do
- Changed “panellist feedback enabled” option to “feedback paths”, a choice of three options
- Dropped “/t/” from tournament URLs and moved “/admin/” to “/database/”, with 301 redirects
- Added basic code linting to the continuous integration tests
- Many other small bug fixes, refactors, optimisations, and documentation updates
0.9.0 (Chartreux)¶
Release date: 13 June 2016
- Added a beta implementation of the break rounds workflow
- Added venue constraints, to allow participants or divisions to preferentially be given venues from predefined groups
- Added a button to regenerate draws
- Refactored speaker standings implementation to match team standings implementation
- New standings metrics, draw methods, and interface settings for running small tournaments and division-based tournaments
- Improved support for multiple tournaments
- Improved user-facing error messages in some scenarios
- Most frontend dependencies now handled by Bower
- Static file compilation now handled by Gulp
- Various bug fixes, optimisations, and documentation edits
0.8.3¶
Release date: 4 April 2016
- Restored and reworking printing functionality for scoresheets/feedback
- Restored Edit Venues and Edit Matchups on the draw pages
- Reworked tournament data importers to use csv.DictReader, so that column order in files doesn’t matter
- Improved dashboard and feedback graphs
- Add separate pro speakers tab
- Various bug fixes, optimisations, and documentation edits
0.8.2¶
Release date: 20 March 2016
- Fixed issue where scores from individual ballots would be deleted when any other panel in the round was edited
- Fixed issue where page crashes for URLs with “tab” in it but that aren’t recognized tab pages
0.8.1¶
Release date: 15 March 2016
- Fixed a bug where editing a Team in the admin section could cause an error
- Added instructions on how to account for speakers speaking twice to docs
- Venues Importer wont show VenueGroup import info unless that option is enabled
0.8.0 (Bengal)¶
Release date: 29 February 2016
- Upgraded to Python 3.4, dropped support for Python 2
- Restructured directories and, as a consequence, changed database schema
- Added Django migrations to the release (they were previously generated by the user)
- Migrated documentation to Read The Docs
- New user interface design and workflow
- Overhauled tournament preferences to use django-dynamic-preferences
- Added new visual data importer
- Improved flexibility of team standings rules
- Moved data utility scripts to Django management commands
- Changed emoji to Unicode characters
- Various other fixes and refinements
0.7.0 (Abyssinian)¶
Release date: 31 July 2015
- Support for multiple tournaments
- Improved and extensible tournament data importer
- Display gender, region, and break category in adjudicator allocation
- New views for online adjudicator feedback
- Customisable adjudicator feedback forms
- Randomised URLs for public submission
- Customisable break categories
- Computerised break generation (break round draws not supported)
- Lots of fixes, interface touch-ups and performance enhancements
- Now requires Django 1.8 (and other package upgrades)