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README.md
CAcert board voting service
This project contains the source code for the CAcert board voting software running on https://motion.cacert.org/.
Ideas
The board voting system is meant to be used by the elected committee members of CAcert Inc. to allow them to do votes on decisions in a distributed way. The system keeps track of the individual decisions and votes. It takes care of authenticating board members using client certificates and performs timekeeping for decisions. The system sends voting requests to all board members and takes care of sending reminders as well es decision results.
There is a concept of proxy votes that mean that one member of the board is allowed to vote in representation of another member of a board.
License
The CAcert board voting software is licensed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Copyright 2017-2022 Jan Dittberner
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this program except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an " AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
History
The CAcert board voting software is a Go reimplementation of the ancient PHP implementation that had been serving the
CAcert board. The Subversion repository at https://svn.cacert.cl/Software does not exist anymore, so the last available
version from http://community.cacert.org/board/ has been taken from the system. The latest file changed was proxy.php
with a change date of 2011-05-15 23:13 UTC. The latest svn revision was:
Path: .
URL: https://svn.cacert.cl/Software/Voting/vote
Repository Root: https://svn.cacert.cl/Software
Repository UUID: d4452222-2f33-11de-9270-010000000000
Revision: 66
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: community.cacert.org
Last Changed Rev: 66
Last Changed Date: 2009-07-12 04:02:38 +0000 (Sun, 12 Jul 2009)
Development requirements
Local development requires
- golang >= 1.19
- sqlite3 and development headers
- GNU make
- nodejs, npm and gulp (only needed if you intend to update the jQuery or Fomantic-UI CSS and JavaScript)
On a Debian 12 (Bookworm) system you can run the following command to get all required dependencies:
sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev golang-go make gulp
Getting started
Clone the code via git:
git clone ssh://git.cacert.org/var/cache/git/cacert-boardvoting.git
To get started copy config.yaml.example
to config.yaml
and customize the parameters. You will also need a set of
X.509 certificates and a private key because the application performs TLS Client certificate authentication. You might
use openssl
to create a self-signed server certificate and retrieve the CAcert class 3 root from the CAcert website:
openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout server.key -x509 -out server.crt -subj '/CN=localhost'
curl -o cacert_class3.pem http://www.cacert.org/certs/class3_X0E.crt
It is advisable to have a local mail setup that intercepts outgoing email or to use email addresses that you control.
You can use the following table to find useful values for the parameters in config.yaml
.
Parameter | Description | How to get a valid value |
---|---|---|
database_file |
a SQLite database file (production value is database.sqlite ) |
keep the default or use something like local.sqlite |
client_ca_certificates |
File containing allowed client certificate CA certificates (production value is cacert_class3.pem ) |
use the shell code above |
server_certificate |
X.509 certificate that is used to identify your server (i.e. server.crt ) |
use the filename used as -out parameter in the openssl invocation above |
server_key |
PEM encoded private key file (i.e. server.key ) |
use the filename used as -keyout parameter in the openssl invocation above |
mail_config.smtp_host |
Mail server host (production value is localhost ) |
localhost |
mail_config.smtp_port |
Mail server TCP port (production value is 25 |
see how to setup a debugging SMTP server below and choose the port of that (default 8025 ) |
mail_config.base_url |
The base URL of your application instance (production value is https://motions.cacert.org) | use https://localhost:8443 |
mail_config.notice_mail_address |
email address where notifications about votes are sent (production value is cacert-board@lists.cacert.org) | be creative but do not spam others (i.e. use user+board@your-domain.org) |
mail_config.vote_notice_mail_address |
email address where notifications about individual votes are sent (production value is cacert-board-votes@lists.cacert.org) | be creative but do not spam others (i.e. use user+votes@your-domain.org) |
mail_config.notification_sender_address |
sender address for all mails sent by the system (production value is returns@cacert.org) | be creative but do not spam others (i.e. use user+returns@your-domain.org) |
timeouts.idle |
idle timeout setting for HTTP and HTTPS (default: 1 minute) | specify a nano second value |
timeouts.read |
read timeout setting for HTTP and HTTPS (default: 5 seconds) | |
timeouts.read_header |
header read timeout setting for HTTP and HTTPS (default: 5 seconds) | |
timeouts.write |
write timeout setting for HTTP and HTTPS (default: 10 seconds) |
Generating random byte values
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null | base64
Debugging SMTP server
You can use aiosmtpd to set up a small testing SMTP server that logs to stdout:
sudo apt install python3-aiosmtpd
python3 -m aiosmtpd -n
Another good local SMTP debugging tool is MailHog which provides a web based user interface and a REST API to inspect received mails.
Build and run
make
./cacert-boardvoting
Build UI resources
Fomantic-UI is used as a CSS framework. Configuration is stored in semantic.json
in the
project root directory.
Building the UI resource requires
- NodeJS >= v8
- NPM >= v5
To install fomantic-ui and build the UI resources do:
npm install
cd node_modules/fomantic-ui
npx gulp build
Code structure
├── cmd
│ └── boardvoting
├── config.yaml.example
├── debian
├── go.mod
├── go.sum
├── internal
│ ├── app
│ ├── forms
│ ├── handlers
│ ├── jobs
│ ├── mailtemplates
│ ├── mailtemplates.go
│ ├── middleware
│ ├── migrations
│ ├── migrations.go
│ ├── models
│ ├── notifications
│ └── validator
├── Jenkinsfile
├── LICENSE
├── Makefile
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── README.md
├── semantic.json
└── ui
├── efs.go
├── html
├── semantic
└── static
The cmd/boardvoting
directory contains the application code.
The internal/migrations
directory contains database migration scripts.
Static assets and Go templates for HTML pages are stored in ui/static
and ui/html
.
Email templates are stored in internal/mailtemplates
.
All Go code besides the main application is stored in subdirectories of internal
.
The ui/semantic
directory contains a download of Fomantic-UI.
The entry point into the application is cmd/boardvoting/main.go
. Makefile
controls the build
Jenkinsfile
contains the pipeline definition for the Continuous Integration Job.
package-lock.json
contains the pinned versions of external JavaScript and CSS assets (use
npm install
to download them into a local node_modules
directory). semantic.json
is the
configuration file for the Fomantic-UI CSS framework.