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

1.1.5

Release date: 12 January 2017

  • A number of minor bug fixes and improvements to documentation

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)