LibreJS compatability

[heyakyra]

This means that for the website to be fully free software, the JavaScript must also be free. It should be tested with the LibreJS plugin: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

A few steps are required:

• Switch from proprietary Google Maps to free/libre OpenStreetMaps
• Drop or switch from Google Analytics
• Mark javascript as free as directed on http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html

[johana-star]

@tkwidmer To resolve this issue, we'd need to remove our Google dependencies. Will this happen in the next three months? If so, keep the issue open, otherwise I think we should close this issue.

[tkwidmer]

I'd love to see it done in the next three months. So we can leave it open for now? It would be nice to be completely open source / free. My only concern about this is i'm not sure how accurate the OSM geoloating is and if there is a JS way to do it.

Currently we use JS client side to geolocate search strings before passing to our server (so we don't hit API call limits). We would need to maintain this functionality but using OSM for the lookup service.

The other two places we Geolocate is on the new bathrooms page when folks try to guess their current location to auto fill some of the fields. Or upon new bathroom entry with an address. I belive the current location is done is JS on client side and the new bathroom entery is done using geocoder on the server using google, which can be changed to OSM fairly easily.

Google analytics should be fairly easy to replace / delete.

[johana-star]

Ok, we should probably break this into a few separate issues and make LibreJS into a milestone.

• replace Google Maps with Open Street Maps
• remove Google Analytics (what free tools replace this?)

While we are at it, we should get our JS under test… can we use Jasmine as our testing framework? The general rule I'd follow here is no new JS can be committed without some test coverage.

[tkwidmer]

Sounds good to me @strand

[kiesia]

@strand piwik is a drop in replacement for google analytics. You need to install it yourself somewhere though (mysql/php). If there's no other options, I could install it on a server and admin it.

Jasmine would be awesome.

[johana-star]

I think there are a couple of separate projects here… One is defining our distinctive testing strategy, the other is replacing Google products with FLOSS alternatives. I have a good idea of what that first looks like (replace cucumber tests with RSpec/Capybara, audit existing RSpec, establish Jasmine tests, get JS under test) and feel capable of leading that effort. @kiesia I think you are capable and interested in ensuring that we are only using FLOSS tech. Would you lead this effort?

[kiesia]

@strand Sure I can take that on.

Agree about the tests too, would be great to get rid of cucumber and get the js tested. Is there discussion needed about this? If not I'll just write a feature test for the versioning feature I'm writing.

[mathonsunday]

Ahoy seems like a good replacement for Google Analytics https://github.com/ankane/ahoy

[backspace]

Hello, I only used Cucumber because it’s what I knew, and if people want to change it RSpec, works for me, excited to see what it’s like

[kiesia]

I'm assigning myself to this to set up a server with piwik.

[tkwidmer]

👍

[kiesia]

I've forked off this issue to a much more manageable #200.