Description

beta

Sets up a liquid democracy tool: LiquidFeedback (http://liquidfeedback.org)

Based on Lua and Postgresql

Requirements

Cookbooks

postgresql and database
mercurial
openssl

Resources

Instance related attributes

liquid_feedback "OurOrganization" do
    email_from "[email protected]"
    area "The Internet"
    action :create
    member_ttl '1 year'

    # software related attributes
    core_version 'v2.1.0'
    webmcp_version 'v2.1.0'
    frontend_version 'v2.1.2'
end

Usage

Via Resource (multi-instance)

Set up one or multiple liquid_feedback resource in your recipe and run it. Your admin invitekey will be written to a template

miminal example script

::Chef::Recipe.send(:include, Opscode::OpenSSL::Password)

node.set_unless['lf']['db_password'] = secure_password
node.set['lf']['db_user'] = "liquid_feedback"

liquid_feedback "org1" do

    email "org1.example.com"
    locale "de_DE.UTF-8"

    db_user node['lf']['db_user']
    db_password node['lf']['db_password']

    action [:create, :start]
end

liquid_feedback "org2" do

    email "[email protected]"
    locale "en_US.UTF-8"

    db_user node['lf']['db_user']
    db_password node['lf']['db_password']

    action [:create, :start]
end

Via Recipe (single-instance)

Set up node attributes Include recipe.

Your admin invitekey will be stored as node attribute

node['lf']['admin_invitecode']

Notes

If you are provisioning postgresql on the same server, you should have pg_hba configured in your node:

    "postgresql": {
        "enable_pgdg_apt": true,
        "version": "9.2",
        "config": { "ssl": false },
        "pg_hba": [
            {"type": "local", "db": "all", "user": "postgres", "addr": null, "method": "ident"},
            {"type": "local", "db": "all", "user": "lf_g0v", "addr": null, "method": "password"},
            {"type": "host", "db": "all", "user": "all", "addr": "127.0.0.1/32", "method": "md5"},
            {"type": "host", "db": "all", "user": "all", "addr": "::1/128", "method": "md5"}
        ]
    }

If you use chef-solo, you must set lf db password and postgresql password in node json directly:

    "lf": {
        "db": {
            "password": "passwordForLQInstanceUser"
        }
    },
    "postgresql": {
        "password": {
            "postgres": "passwordForConncetingToPG"
        }
    }

KNOWN BUGS with using resources:

• Lighttpd currently supports only single-instance (web path)
• Postgresql supports only one db_user and db_password (pg_hba needs to be setup for all users, circumvent with setting db_user and db_password same on all your resources)

Ideas/Todo

• Setup Postfix or exim (or email)

• Send event notifications

• Set up Unix users for postges access

• Set up lighttp to run lua scripts as unix users (and find out which access rights they need)

Contact

see metadata.rb