aBot engine

• Make voting questions in simple text files

• single choice, multiple choice and open text questions supported

  • read more from example questions sets

• Preview form online

• Get tokens for voting in command line

• Send unique URLs to your voters (mailing example script included)

• Summarize results in the command line

• Online part runs with python3 + flask + gunicorn

• Command line tools python3

Basic usage instructions

• Install requirements ./install.me
• Start server ./start.me
• Create questions in questions/my_poll.txt
• Have draft: true in the questions, and view the poll at preview
• Change to draft: false to enable voting
• Add tokens for the vote: ./manager my_poll token --prefix http://localhost:8041
• Open the link to vote
• Get summary of votes: ./manager my_poll summary

Additional usage

During the poll, you can observe the vote counts:

• Add an observer token: ./manager my_poll token --prefix http://localhost:8041 --role observer
• Open the link to see vote counts
• If the question se allows voters to see results after casting their vote show_results: true, then observer can also see the results.

Example installation on debian

Install web server as root

apt install nginx virtualenv python3 git
# edit the config of /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default to have your host name
systemctl enable nginx
systemctl start nginx
virtualenv -p python3 certbot
. cerbot/bin/activate
pip install certbot-nginx
certbot --nginx

• In /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/defaut: replace the "location /" with a proxy:

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8041/;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
  }

• Restart server, systemctl restart nginx
• At this point your browser should error with a bad gateway

Install aBot as a normal user

git clone https://bitbucket.org/MoonQ/abot
cd abot
./install.me

• You can run the ./start.me to test your installation
• It's recommended to run service as a daemon for more robustness, to survive reboots etc.. You can do it for example with runit.

Installing runit

• Run these commands as root:

apt install runit runit-systemd
systemctl enable runit
systemctl start runit
mkdir -p /etc/sv/abot/log

• Edit file /etc/sv/abot/run, with correct values

#!/bin/sh

exec 2>&1
cd /[PATH-TO-ABOT-INSTALLATION]
exec chpst -u [NORMAL-USER-NAME] ./start.me

• Edit file /etc/sv/abot/log/run, with correct values

#!/bin/sh
exec chpst -u [NORMAL-USER-NAME] svlogd -tt /[PATH-TO-ABOT-INSTALLATION]/log

• Enable service:

ln -s /etc/sv/abot /etc/service/abot

• Finally, as the normal user, create the log folder, mkdir [PATH-TO-ABOT-INSTALLATION]/log
• The log folder should be populated with file current which has the log of the process.