0. DATABASE SETUP

To use Liquid Feedback you have to follow these
simple steps, which have to be done as the postgres system user (or
which ever is the database superuser):

$ createuser liquid_feedback
and answer the following
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n
Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n

$ psql 
postgres=# ALTER USER liquid_feedback WITH PASSWORD 'the_new_password';

$ createdb -U liquid_feedback liquid_feedback
$ psql -U liquid_feedback liquid_feedback
liquid_feedback=# \i ${MY_INSTALLDIR}/liquid_feedback_core/core.sql
liquid_feedback=# \i ${MY_INSTALLDIR}/liquid_feedback_core/init.sql
INSERT INTO system_setting (member_ttl) VALUES ('1 year');
INSERT INTO contingent (polling, time_frame, text_entry_limit, initiative_limit) VALUES (false, '1 hour', 20, 6);
INSERT INTO contingent (polling, time_frame, text_entry_limit, initiative_limit) VALUES (false, '1 day', 80, 12);
INSERT INTO contingent (polling, time_frame, text_entry_limit, initiative_limit) VALUES (true, '1 hour', 200, 60);
INSERT INTO contingent (polling, time_frame, text_entry_limit, initiative_limit) VALUES (true, '1 day', 800, 120);
INSERT INTO policy (index, name, admission_time, discussion_time, verification_time, voting_time, issue_quorum_num, issue_quorum_den, initiative_quorum_num, initiative_quorum_den) VALUES (1, 'Default policy', '8 days', '15 days', '8 days', '15 days', 10, 100, 10, 100);

cd /var/lib/liquid_feedback_frontend
/usr/lib/webmcp/framework/bin/webmcp_shell myconfig
Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> member = Member:by_id(1)
> member:set_password("type-password-here")
> member:save()
> os.exit()

Ensure that "lf_update dbname=liquid_feedback" and
"lf_update_suggestion_order dbname=liquid_feedback" are called
regularly! It is required to run these commands regularly
(i.e. every 5 minutes via cron) to update cached supporter counts,
to change the state of issues when neccessary, to calculate the
result of votings, etc.  If you wish, copy the created lf_update
and lf_update_suggestion_order files to /usr/local/bin or a
similar directory.

It is possible to run these two commands in parallel, if a setup
requires splitting the load to multiple processor cores. In other
cases it is recommended to run "lf_update" first, and then
"lf_update_suggestion_order".

To create an export file, which is containing all but private data,
you may use the lf_export shell-script:
$ lf_export liquid_feedback export.sql.gz