Launch the site

[Changaco]

• replace "gratipay" with "liberapay" in the code
• clean up the DB schema (id as primary key everywhere, etc)
• implement mandatory email+password auth
• rework the UI including its theme (let's use Bootstrap)
• modify the code to use MangoPay instead of Balanced (and € instead of $)
• implement identity info collection (https://docs.mangopay.com/api-references/kyc-rules/)
• reimplement teams
• design a logo
• widgets
• protect ourselves from chargebacks (Cover our asses wrt chargebacks #2)
• read https://www.mangopay.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MANGOPAY_Contract-02_JAN_2015.pdf
• write terms of service (Write terms of service liberapay.org#4)
• register for a MangoPay account (Register for a MangoPay account liberapay.org#5)
• complete the /about pages
• figure out i18n infrastructure (done: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/liberapay/)
• i18n of the account closing page
• get a certificate for TLS
• figure out infrastructure for hosting & error logging & metrics & email (we'll use Mandrill for now)
• 100% french translation

[MartinDelille]

I will ask a friend if he can propose a logo.

[Changaco]

Password auth done in #5, now working on the UI.

[chadwhitacre]

Best of luck, @Changaco, et al. :-)

I have started recommending Liberapay to teams that aren't a good fit for Gratipay.

[Changaco]

Took longer than I'd hoped, but it's done: Liberapay has its own UI. \o/

[Changaco]

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/liberapay/ is now synced, the project is less than 50% translated.

[Changaco]

After a rather lengthy pause (a month), I'm working on this again.

[Changaco]

Wooohooooo 🎉 🍸 🍰

There's still work to do, but that last PR brought us a lot closer to launch readiness.

[Changaco]

Also, the tests are finally passing on master and the fixtures are a lot smaller! \o/

[Changaco]

Now that the giant pull requests are done I'm dumping my local todo list into github issues so that other people (i.e. you) can see what still needs to be done and start contributing.

[Changaco]

The list of things missing before the site can be launched is getting short. :-)

[Changaco]

Relevant news: Let's Encrypt is Entering Public Beta.

[Changaco]

By the way, I'm currently hoping and aiming to launch early next year (i.e. in less than 3 months).

[Changaco]

I've created separate issues in the org repo for the legal tasks: liberapay/liberapay.org#4 and liberapay/liberapay.org#5.

[Changaco]

I've also improved the temporary homepage of Liberapay at https://liberapay.com/ so people who land there can better understand what the project is.

[Changaco]

I've been looking deeper into hosting since we're on schedule for launch so far. My original thought was Clever Cloud, however after looking into other Heroku alternatives I've found OpenShift (Red Hat).

Advantages over Clever Cloud:

• They have a free plan, with pay-per-use for extra resources.
• They have grants for non-profits and open source projects.
• They're more open source and have better documentation and more add-ons.

Drawbacks of OpenShift I've found so far:

• They don't provide stable IP addresses to point to, so we have to either:
  • use a CNAME, which means using www.liberapay.com as the canonical name instead of the shorter liberapay.com
  • switch to a costlier registrar that implements a non-standard record (ALIAS/ANAME)
  • use CloudFlare's DNS, apparently it's free and it would bypass the issue entirely, that seems like an acceptable solution
• Their free plan doesn't allow us to host in Europe.

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco You gonna launch at OuiShare Fest? :)

[Changaco]

@whit537 I'm not currently planning to attend OuiShare Fest, but I did notice that you're going this year, so maybe we can finally meet. I watched your call with OuiShare last night, it was pretty good. :-)

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks! You got a mention, if I remember right ... here it is. :-)

And I'd love to finally meet in person. :-) Reticketed as gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#464.

[Changaco]

I've created a salon for the discussions that don't belong elsewhere, and kicked it off with a monthly "what's up?" thread: liberapay/salon#1. I've posted a report on the status of the project in there.

[Changaco]

liberapay/liberapay.org#5 is done, if the app was ready we could start processing payments right now! \o/ \o/ \o/ :tada: :birthday:

[chadwhitacre]

!m @Changaco

[Changaco]

We've started using Git LFS in #69, but OpenShift doesn't have builtin support for that, and I couldn't find a script to download the files, so I made one.

[Changaco]

There's one more thing I want to get done before launching: 100% french translation.

I'd also like to close as many high priority issues as possible.

If there's anyone lurking around here who was waiting to see if the site would really launch before contributing: well we are definitely launching, so you can start now.

[finkiki]

I start translating some strings. Tell me if I do it well.

[Changaco]

@finkiki You're doing it fine. I've corrected/improved a few of your translations (see recent changes).

[finkiki]

How do you want to translate "team" ? "Équipe" is maybe not the good word.

[Changaco]

@finkiki "Équipe" is fine, I haven't found a better translation.

[finkiki]

And for "wallet" ?

[Changaco]

"porte-monnaie" or "portefeuille", whichever you prefer. Can also be "compte" depending on the context.

[Changaco]

We should talk about this somewhere else, let's go in the salon: liberapay/salon#2.

[Changaco]

Sentry's hosting pricing seems a bit high to me, so I've set up an instance on my personal server (as often, ArchLinux has a package for it that came in handy).

[Changaco]

The About pages are done, and @finkiki is working on the french translation, so I'm going to focus on getting Liberapay running on OpenShift.

[Changaco]

We're almost done with the French translation, mostly thanks to @finkiki, and I've acquired an understanding of the OpenShift platform.

The plan is: this week we finish the fr translation and the adaptation to OpenShift, we also get rid of a few high priority issues, and next week we launch!

[Changaco]

Done! \o/ liberapay.com is up and running! The thread to coordinate spreading the word is liberapay/salon#3. :-)

[Changaco]

@finkiki Tell me when you've created your account so I can add you to the Liberapay team.

[chadwhitacre]

!m @Changaco :-)

[MartinDelille]

Well done @Changaco ! I follow the project from the beginning and regret not having contribute to it... At least I'm now the main founder for liberapay now! :-) (but it won't last for long I'm sure)

[Changaco]

Thanks @MartinDelille :-) It's never too late to start contributing, there's still plenty to do. Note: the /giving/ page is private, only you (and me, as an admin) can see it.

[finkiki]

Well done ! But I do very little for the launch.

[Changaco]

@finkiki I've sent you an invite, you did a big chunk of the French translation, it must have taken you hours, and we want and need our translators to share in the income of the team.

[finkiki]

Thanks!