mysociety/fixmystreet
Jul 2024 – Jul 2026
21 Months active
Languages Used
PerlHTMLSCSSJavaScriptShellYAMLJSONXML
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationTestingBackend DevelopmentCSV ExportFront End Development
Chris Mytton
PROFILE
Chris Mytton
Over 21 months, contributed to mysociety/fixmystreet by delivering 53 features and resolving 12 bugs, focusing on robust backend and frontend development. Work included building regional enhancements, optimizing API integrations, and improving payment workflows, with a strong emphasis on data integrity and user experience. Leveraged Perl, JavaScript, and HTML to implement features such as Direct Debit lifecycle management, CSV export improvements, and dynamic UI updates. Applied automated testing and configuration management to ensure reliability and maintainability. Addressed complex integration challenges, streamlined reporting and cancellation flows, and enhanced privacy controls, resulting in a more resilient and user-focused platform.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
82%Features
Repository Contributions
90Total
Bugs
12
Commits
90
Features
53
Lines of code
752,782
Activity Months21
Your Network
15 peopleWork History
July 2026
1 Commits
Jul 1, 2026July 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on data integrity and cross-district consistency. Delivered a bug fix to Sutton's garden sack ID to align with the new ID structure, ensuring consistent waste management records across districts. The change references prior alignment performed for Merton (3f7c579b9) and FD-6858, implemented via commit 7bdb4e8879c39b16e41f46ba5b15d88d7f5575ed. This strengthens data quality, supports reliable analytics, and reduces reconciliation effort for audits and reporting.
1 Commits
Jul 1, 2026July 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on data integrity and cross-district consistency. Delivered a bug fix to Sutton's garden sack ID to align with the new ID structure, ensuring consistent waste management records across districts. The change references prior alignment performed for Merton (3f7c579b9) and FD-6858, implemented via commit 7bdb4e8879c39b16e41f46ba5b15d88d7f5575ed. This strengthens data quality, supports reliable analytics, and reduces reconciliation effort for audits and reporting.
July 2026
June 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2026June 2026 monthly performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on reliability improvements in the Echo reporting flow. Delivered a unified image-size normalization feature that ensures all Echo report photos are resized to meet submission limits. Expanded the size constraint from Bulky Waste reports to all Echo reports, significantly reducing submission failures due to oversized images and improving reporter experience. The change was implemented with minimal risk through a targeted backend adjustment and a single, well-documented commit. This work strengthens the end-to-end Echo reporting pipeline and demonstrates practical backend image processing and careful change propagation.
June 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2026June 2026 monthly performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on reliability improvements in the Echo reporting flow. Delivered a unified image-size normalization feature that ensures all Echo report photos are resized to meet submission limits. Expanded the size constraint from Bulky Waste reports to all Echo reports, significantly reducing submission failures due to oversized images and improving reporter experience. The change was implemented with minimal risk through a targeted backend adjustment and a single, well-documented commit. This work strengthens the end-to-end Echo reporting pipeline and demonstrates practical backend image processing and careful change propagation.
April 2026
11 Commits • 5 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a set of business-critical features across reporting, testing, payments, privacy, and UI consistency. The work improved enforcement response times, data reliability, and privacy controls, while expanding automated test coverage and maintaining UX consistency. Notable outcomes include the introduction of CCTV zone-aware fly-tipping notifications, expanded geographic testing fixtures with Cypress integration, enhancements to Direct Debit cancellation workflows with Agile-based matching and richer error handling, Westminster data anonymization (with a dry-run option), and alignment of UI terminology from 'Banner' to 'Banners' across steps.
11 Commits • 5 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a set of business-critical features across reporting, testing, payments, privacy, and UI consistency. The work improved enforcement response times, data reliability, and privacy controls, while expanding automated test coverage and maintaining UX consistency. Notable outcomes include the introduction of CCTV zone-aware fly-tipping notifications, expanded geographic testing fixtures with Cypress integration, enhancements to Direct Debit cancellation workflows with Agile-based matching and richer error handling, Westminster data anonymization (with a dry-run option), and alignment of UI terminology from 'Banner' to 'Banners' across steps.
April 2026
March 2026
10 Commits • 7 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026: Delivered flexible reporting categories, improved resilience against GIS outages, stabilized map interactions, enabled admin-level report search, and refreshed geographic data and validation rules. These changes improved user experience, data integrity, and operational reliability, while enabling governance and admin oversight with minimal risk.
March 2026
10 Commits • 7 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026: Delivered flexible reporting categories, improved resilience against GIS outages, stabilized map interactions, enabled admin-level report search, and refreshed geographic data and validation rules. These changes improved user experience, data integrity, and operational reliability, while enabling governance and admin oversight with minimal risk.
February 2026
6 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on business value, user impact, and technical excellence. Delivered four feature updates across waste management, privacy controls, and user guidance, with changes designed to improve collection accuracy, privacy, and user experience while aligning policy with regional requirements.
6 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on business value, user impact, and technical excellence. Delivered four feature updates across waste management, privacy controls, and user guidance, with changes designed to improve collection accuracy, privacy, and user experience while aligning policy with regional requirements.
February 2026
January 2026
7 Commits • 5 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered foundational work for a digital licensing workflow, enhanced cobrand transparency and privacy controls, improved user input UX, and strengthened reliability by addressing third-party integration constraints. The team shipped cross-cobrand features with a focus on business value: reducing manual processing, improving data quality, and delivering clearer pricing and inspection information.
January 2026
7 Commits • 5 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered foundational work for a digital licensing workflow, enhanced cobrand transparency and privacy controls, improved user input UX, and strengthened reliability by addressing third-party integration constraints. The team shipped cross-cobrand features with a focus on business value: reducing manual processing, improving data quality, and delivering clearer pricing and inspection information.
December 2025
1 Commits
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on stabilizing the Garden Direct Debit cancellation flow and tightening legacy contract integration. Delivered a reliability fix for DD cancellations by validating the existence of the original subscription and auto-confirming cancellations when orig_sub is missing. Updated the legacy contract ID retrieval to use the new problem object, improving cross-system consistency and reducing manual follow-up in cancellation workflows.
1 Commits
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on stabilizing the Garden Direct Debit cancellation flow and tightening legacy contract integration. Delivered a reliability fix for DD cancellations by validating the existence of the original subscription and auto-confirming cancellations when orig_sub is missing. Updated the legacy contract ID retrieval to use the new problem object, improving cross-system consistency and reducing manual follow-up in cancellation workflows.
December 2025
November 2025
4 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered key features enhancing legacy garden waste cancellations, improved Chinbrook Meadows asset layer UX, and refined garden waste renewal flow. Strengthened data integrity with UPRN-to-contract-ID lookups and direct debit override for legacy contracts; added new asset layer handlers; enabled renewal with disabled bins_wanted field. These efforts improved business value by increasing cancellation success rates, reducing customer friction, and lowering support overhead while expanding cross-brand robustness.
November 2025
4 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered key features enhancing legacy garden waste cancellations, improved Chinbrook Meadows asset layer UX, and refined garden waste renewal flow. Strengthened data integrity with UPRN-to-contract-ID lookups and direct debit override for legacy contracts; added new asset layer handlers; enabled renewal with disabled bins_wanted field. These efforts improved business value by increasing cancellation success rates, reducing customer friction, and lowering support overhead while expanding cross-brand robustness.
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: focused UI and maintainability improvements around garden waste subscriptions. Key features delivered: refactored the garden waste modification summary to use a shared payment method template, aligning with the new subscription template to improve consistency and maintainability. Major bugs fixed: corrected a spelling error ('calender' -> 'calendar') on the garden waste amend confirmation page across templates to ensure accurate user messaging regarding subscription changes. Overall impact and accomplishments: improved user messaging accuracy and UI consistency across subscription flows, reduced technical debt by removing an unused Echo module method, and laid groundwork for future template-driven enhancements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: template-driven UI refactors, cross-module refactor, commit-level traceability, and code cleanup.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: focused UI and maintainability improvements around garden waste subscriptions. Key features delivered: refactored the garden waste modification summary to use a shared payment method template, aligning with the new subscription template to improve consistency and maintainability. Major bugs fixed: corrected a spelling error ('calender' -> 'calendar') on the garden waste amend confirmation page across templates to ensure accurate user messaging regarding subscription changes. Overall impact and accomplishments: improved user messaging accuracy and UI consistency across subscription flows, reduced technical debt by removing an unused Echo module method, and laid groundwork for future template-driven enhancements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: template-driven UI refactors, cross-module refactor, commit-level traceability, and code cleanup.
October 2025
September 2025
6 Commits • 5 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered several targeted features across Northumberland export, Merton/Sutton cobrand UX, and admin capabilities, plus a critical data integrity fix. These changes improve data accuracy, user experience, and brand governance, while enabling Echo-assisted workflows.
September 2025
6 Commits • 5 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered several targeted features across Northumberland export, Merton/Sutton cobrand UX, and admin capabilities, plus a critical data integrity fix. These changes improve data accuracy, user experience, and brand governance, while enabling Echo-assisted workflows.
August 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focused on key features delivered, major fixes, and business impact for mysociety/fixmystreet.
2 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focused on key features delivered, major fixes, and business impact for mysociety/fixmystreet.
August 2025
July 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025: Delivered Garden Waste Subscriptions Cancellation in Bexley via Agile system integration for mysociety/fixmystreet. Implemented user-facing checks and cancellation capability for garden waste subscriptions in the Bexley area, with cancellations based on recent activity and updates to Direct Debit handling.
July 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025: Delivered Garden Waste Subscriptions Cancellation in Bexley via Agile system integration for mysociety/fixmystreet. Implemented user-facing checks and cancellation capability for garden waste subscriptions in the Bexley area, with cancellations based on recent activity and updates to Direct Debit handling.
June 2025
4 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering regional features, reliability improvements, and consistent user messaging across Gloucester, Peterborough, and Merton. The work emphasizes business value through data quality, user guidance, and Open311 readiness.
4 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering regional features, reliability improvements, and consistent user messaging across Gloucester, Peterborough, and Merton. The work emphasizes business value through data quality, user guidance, and Open311 readiness.
June 2025
May 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered critical access control for report updates and Gloucester cobrand regional enhancements, increasing security, regional capability, and user experience. Implemented configurable 'open/staff' option to control updates on reports by state and role, enabling granular control over report status modifications. Activated Gloucester regional features with flags and validations, added disambiguation support via admin display_name, and improved initial map view to enhance usability. These changes drive security, operational flexibility for regional deployments, and a smoother user experience for volunteers and staff.
May 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered critical access control for report updates and Gloucester cobrand regional enhancements, increasing security, regional capability, and user experience. Implemented configurable 'open/staff' option to control updates on reports by state and role, enabling granular control over report status modifications. Activated Gloucester regional features with flags and validations, added disambiguation support via admin display_name, and improved initial map view to enhance usability. These changes drive security, operational flexibility for regional deployments, and a smoother user experience for volunteers and staff.
April 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on targeted data integrity improvements, UX alignment with local contexts, and Echo-system compatibility across Bexley, Hart, and Sutton areas. Delivered concise changes with strong traceability to commits, enhancing service relevance and maintainability.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on targeted data integrity improvements, UX alignment with local contexts, and Echo-system compatibility across Bexley, Hart, and Sutton areas. Delivered concise changes with strong traceability to commits, enhancing service relevance and maintainability.
April 2025
March 2025
8 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly delivery focused on stabilizing and enhancing the Bexley Garden Waste Direct Debit flow and PaySuite integration in mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered robust Direct Debit lifecycle enhancements, improved transaction clarity via narrative customization, fixed critical HTTP header handling and idempotency issues, and strengthened data integrity with duplicate submission prevention. Together these changes deliver smoother onboarding, more reliable payments, and clearer transaction records for Bexley Garden Waste.
March 2025
8 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly delivery focused on stabilizing and enhancing the Bexley Garden Waste Direct Debit flow and PaySuite integration in mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered robust Direct Debit lifecycle enhancements, improved transaction clarity via narrative customization, fixed critical HTTP header handling and idempotency issues, and strengthened data integrity with duplicate submission prevention. Together these changes deliver smoother onboarding, more reliable payments, and clearer transaction records for Bexley Garden Waste.
February 2025
7 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (mysociety/fixmystreet) – Key features delivered, bugs fixed, and ongoing improvements that strengthen reporting, data quality, and payment workflows. The work demonstrates robust test coverage, configuration management for cobranding, and UX refinements that improve stakeholder-facing accuracy and usability. Sections: 1) Key features delivered 2) Major bugs fixed 3) Overall impact and accomplishments 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated
7 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (mysociety/fixmystreet) – Key features delivered, bugs fixed, and ongoing improvements that strengthen reporting, data quality, and payment workflows. The work demonstrates robust test coverage, configuration management for cobranding, and UX refinements that improve stakeholder-facing accuracy and usability. Sections: 1) Key features delivered 2) Major bugs fixed 3) Overall impact and accomplishments 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated
February 2025
January 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on key achievements for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered three primary items that enhance configurability, data quality, and user clarity. Key features and fixes implemented in January 2025: - Echo integration enhancement: Introduced address_types attribute and refactored FindPoints to use the new attribute, enabling address type filtering to be configured without passing the entire configuration object. This improves code organization, flexibility, and runtime behavior. - Waste bin policy and guidance content updates: Added user-facing content explaining the council's authority to charge for general waste bins and clarified related policies to improve user understanding and reduce potential support inquiries. - Waste collection log deduplication: Fixed issue where duplicate waste collection logs (same reason, round code, and date) could be presented; now only unique logs are processed and displayed. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved configurability and maintainability of the Echo integration by isolating address-type filtering logic. - Enhanced user comprehension through updated policy content, reducing ambiguity and potential inquiries. - Strengthened data integrity in waste collection processing by eliminating duplicates. - Demonstrated end-to-end delivery from design/refactor through UX content to data hygiene, aligning with product quality and user value. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Python refactoring and integration design (Echo integration, FindPoints refactor) - UX/content update for policy guidance - Data hygiene and deduplication logic - Commit-driven development and maintainable code structure
January 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on key achievements for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered three primary items that enhance configurability, data quality, and user clarity. Key features and fixes implemented in January 2025: - Echo integration enhancement: Introduced address_types attribute and refactored FindPoints to use the new attribute, enabling address type filtering to be configured without passing the entire configuration object. This improves code organization, flexibility, and runtime behavior. - Waste bin policy and guidance content updates: Added user-facing content explaining the council's authority to charge for general waste bins and clarified related policies to improve user understanding and reduce potential support inquiries. - Waste collection log deduplication: Fixed issue where duplicate waste collection logs (same reason, round code, and date) could be presented; now only unique logs are processed and displayed. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved configurability and maintainability of the Echo integration by isolating address-type filtering logic. - Enhanced user comprehension through updated policy content, reducing ambiguity and potential inquiries. - Strengthened data integrity in waste collection processing by eliminating duplicates. - Demonstrated end-to-end delivery from design/refactor through UX content to data hygiene, aligning with product quality and user value. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Python refactoring and integration design (Echo integration, FindPoints refactor) - UX/content update for policy guidance - Data hygiene and deduplication logic - Commit-driven development and maintainable code structure
December 2024
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements. Delivered a bug fix and three features across mysociety/fixmystreet: corrected the assisted collections flag for Bexley using property.has_assisted; added garden waste image support for Sutton cobranding with SVG mapping for container type 28 and associated tests; standardized Public Rights of Way naming in Central Beds cobranding and updated road-selection logic. These changes improve data accuracy, branding consistency, and user experience across brands, supported by targeted tests validating imagery and behavior. Technologies demonstrated include data-driven flag evaluation, SVG asset handling, unit testing, and cross-branding alignment.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements. Delivered a bug fix and three features across mysociety/fixmystreet: corrected the assisted collections flag for Bexley using property.has_assisted; added garden waste image support for Sutton cobranding with SVG mapping for container type 28 and associated tests; standardized Public Rights of Way naming in Central Beds cobranding and updated road-selection logic. These changes improve data accuracy, branding consistency, and user experience across brands, supported by targeted tests validating imagery and behavior. Technologies demonstrated include data-driven flag evaluation, SVG asset handling, unit testing, and cross-branding alignment.
December 2024
November 2024
3 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — FixMyStreet (mysociety/fixmystreet): Delivered Surrey cobrand enhancements to improve regional branding, clarity, and data export interoperability. Key work included a Surrey-specific header logo template linked to Surrey County Council, clarified explanatory text for the happy-or-not data usage section, and an enhanced CSV export to include External ID, with updated tests. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature delivery and quality assurance to support better user experience and data interoperability.
November 2024
3 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — FixMyStreet (mysociety/fixmystreet): Delivered Surrey cobrand enhancements to improve regional branding, clarity, and data export interoperability. Key work included a Surrey-specific header logo template linked to Surrey County Council, clarified explanatory text for the happy-or-not data usage section, and an enhanced CSV export to include External ID, with updated tests. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature delivery and quality assurance to support better user experience and data interoperability.
July 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2024In July 2024, delivered a performance optimization for the Bin Days page in the mysociety/fixmystreet repository by enabling parallel API calls to the Whitespace service. This change reduced page load times and enhanced the end-user experience, particularly for pages dependent on multiple external data sources. The work aligns with our focus on responsive interfaces and operational efficiency.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2024In July 2024, delivered a performance optimization for the Bin Days page in the mysociety/fixmystreet repository by enabling parallel API calls to the Whitespace service. This change reduced page load times and enhanced the end-user experience, particularly for pages dependent on multiple external data sources. The work aligns with our focus on responsive interfaces and operational efficiency.
July 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness95.0%
Maintainability90.2%
Architecture89.4%
Performance88.6%
AI Usage20.2%
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