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What we know isn't working yet on Kildarestreet.com

This entry's for those of you testing the beta. I know that the following things are currently problematic or missing and will need repairing or implementing, respectively:

1. The search engine, which we inherited from the UK, is currently having character set issues which manifest themselves on people and items using characters which appear in the Irish language.
2. 'Numerology' on TD info pages is currently devoid of information despite the software's ability to generate many statistics calculated from members' contributions.
3. Speeches which contain inline quotes from external sources should show those quotes as indented paragraphs; they don't yet.
4. Written answers to questions from the record are not here yet. We'll be adding them as soon as we can.
5. Currently nothing at all very little is in the Seanad database.
6. If the answer to a question contains a table of data, that table is omitted, and any text from the answer which should appear after that missing table is also absent.
7. Brian Cowen, for example, is not only one of the local TDs from Laois-Offaly. We have the ability to display offices and opposition spokesperson roles but haven't yet imported that data. Ministers are in, opposition parties not.
8. I remain on an ongoing seek-and-destroy mission looking for the seemingly endless references dotted around the place to the Commons, Lords, Hansard and MPs.
9. The API needs reworking accordingly before it can be used by anybody, and in any case is currently still lacking its geographic functions.

A number of these future fixes will require me to re-import the whole day's proceedings. If by bad luck you happen upon a day which is in the process of being regenerated, it will look very odd for up to fifteen minutes. So please hold off on reporting that unless it stays broken for more than 20 minutes.

If you find an issue which is not contained in this list, please file a bug report!

Thanks for helping.

John Handelaar

Posted on 14 April 2009 at 20:34:24 | Link to this