Hi @oferw
The code for that site is here: https://github.com/openbudgets/openbudgets
and the technical documentation is here: http://docs.openbudgets.io/en/latest/
There are problems in this section of the quickstart: http://docs.openbudgets.io/en/latest/guide/quickstart.html#interacting-with-the-project
Because of trickery I did with fab
to wrap various commands.
But they are all things that can be worked around if you are familiar with Python web development:
Note: In many cases, our fab tasks simply wrap CLI commands for:
git
python manage.py
redis-server
psql and associated CLIs like createdb and dropdb.
You can always use the original CLIs - nothing is hidden.
As for reviving it: The code is quite well documented, and augmented by the above linked docs. There is a painful difficulty for new developers in using the data importer. That is probably the only code that actually needs a refactor/rewrite.
Our team has divided forces for now. Ido, who is the manager of the project in HaSadna, is working on a new codebase with people in Jerusalem.
I’m taking a completely different data-driven approach and building an open dataset and API for data we have from every muni in Israel, and focusing only on javascript visualisations on that.
If you are confident in Python I’d invite you to fork the code above, or, work with the team in Jerusalem.