Integrate Decidim Initiatives into Decidim

[jsperezg]

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Integrate Decidim Initiatives into Decidim

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• Fixes Integrate Decidim Initiatives into Decidim #3118

[mrcasals]

@jsperezg you need to modify the upload-coverage job in the CircleCI config file and change the parts section from 16 to 17, otherwise the build fails!

[josepjaume]

Sorry to pop in so late - I believe we should leave initiatives outside the main gem unless we have a way to toggle initiatives for an organization. Otherwise, we might be introducing a feature some people might not desire.

[xabier]

Sorry to pop in so late - I believe we should leave initiatives outside the main gem unless we have a way to toggle initiatives for an organization. Otherwise, we might be introducing a feature some people might not desire.

Initiatives (also known as "Petitions" in English speaking participatory software) is the most important feature of a participatory democracy platform. Like posting a blog post in a Blog software 😄

[jsperezg]

@josepjaume @xabier What is the final decission regarding initiatives? Should it be included by default or not?

[josepjaume]

@xabier I understand - my concern is purely technical though. I'm worried most organizations will have deployed assuming there's no such feature, and might feel frustrated if there's no way to deactivate the functionality.

Right now the easiest path is to make it optional until we figure out a mechanism to activate / deactivate features like this. This doesn't mean we don't treat initiatives (petitions?) as a first-class citizen: It's still on the repo and tests will run against it. It's just a compromise until we find a better solution.

What do you think @xabier ? @andreslucena maybe you could give your 5 cents?

[andreslucena]

@josepjaume as far as I understand, your proposal (lol) would be to have it commented out on the Gemfile that we have by default (like we did until recently with Assemblies)? And on the future when we have an interface to enable/disable this kind of things?

I don't know how complicated would be to have it as an option on the general administration panel (ie "Enable Initiatives").

Related to this, I think that sooner or later we'll have a plugin manager on Decidim itself (like Discourse or Wordpress).

[xabier]

@josepjaume ok. I agree. I think Decidim should ship with Initiatives but this should not override the existing instalation with a new participatory space.

Following with what @andreslucena is saying I think in the mid term Decidim should ship with a configuration panel where:

• Spaces can be activated and de-activated
• Plugins can be installed.

But I would differentiate plugins from the core-participatory-spaces.

[jsperezg]

@xabier So we leave it as optional until the core implements the plugin control system?

[mrcasals]

@jsperezg yes, please 😄 We talked about it offline yesterday and that's what we agreed on.

[andreslucena]

@jsperezg yes, the consensus was with having it commented on the Gemfile of the generated application (like we used to do with assemblies)

[jsperezg]

@mrcasals @andreslucena @josepjaume Can you check my last changes?

[josepjaume]

@jsperezg nicely done! Turning the controller test into a system one is the only way I could find in the past to solve the very same issue.