Our current assumption is that the bleed area has the same population density as the broadcast area. This is particularly naïve when: - the bleed area overlaps the sea – no-one lives in the sea - the broadcast area is a village and the bleed area is the surrounding countryside - the broadcast area is adjacent to a densely populated area like a city We can be smarter about this now that we have a way of determining the number of phones in an arbitrary area, based on the known areas that we have population data about. Calculating the population in an overlap is a slightly more intensive calculation. So we only doing it for areas which are smaller enough that it doesn’t slow things down too much. For larger areas we still use the more naïve algorithm.
notifications-admin
GOV.UK Notify admin application - https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/
- Register and manage users
- Create and manage services
- Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
- Show history of notifications
Setting up
Python version
At the moment we run Python 3.6 in production.
NPM packages
brew install node
NPM is Node's package management tool. n is a tool for managing different versions of Node. The following installs n and uses the long term support (LTS) version of Node.
npm install -g n
n lts
environment.sh
In the root directory of the application, run:
echo "
export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT='development'
export FLASK_APP=application.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
export WERKZEUG_DEBUG_PIN=off
"> environment.sh
AWS credentials
To run parts of the app, such as uploading letters, you will need appropriate AWS credentials. See the Wiki for more details.
To run the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
# run the web app
make run-flask
Then visit localhost:6012.
Any Python code changes you make should be picked up automatically in development. If you're developing JavaScript code, run npm run watch to achieve the same.
To test the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
# run all the tests
make test
# continuously run js tests
npm run test-watch
To run a specific JavaScript test, you'll need to copy the full command from package.json.
To update application dependencies
requirements.txt is generated from the requirements.in in order to pin versions of all nested dependencies. If requirements.in has been changed, run make freeze-requirements to regenerate it.