mysociety/fixmystreet
Oct 2024 – Apr 2026
19 Months active
Languages Used
HTMLJavaScriptPerlYAMLCSSSCSSTextMarkdown
Technical Skills
CypressHTMLJavaScriptPerl programmingfront end developmenttesting
Dave Arter
PROFILE
Dave Arter
Dave worked extensively on the mysociety/fixmystreet repository, delivering over 60 features and numerous bug fixes across 19 months. He engineered robust backend and frontend solutions using Perl, JavaScript, and HTML, focusing on API integration, authentication, and data management. His work included enhancing regional cobrands, optimizing data ingestion and export pipelines, and refining user experience through UI/UX improvements and privacy compliance. Dave implemented automated workflows, improved analytics tracking, and strengthened configuration management, ensuring scalable, maintainable code. His technical depth is evident in his approach to testing, validation, and traceability, consistently addressing operational needs and regulatory requirements through thoughtful engineering.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
82%Features
Repository Contributions
124Total
Bugs
14
Commits
124
Features
63
Lines of code
8,609
Activity Months19
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13 peopleWork History
April 2026
3 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on clarifying guidance for issue reporting and ensuring accurate analytics tracking, delivering measurable improvements with minimal risk. Key features delivered: - Enhanced User Guidance for Reporting Issues: Combined front page wording improvements with FAQ updates to provide clearer, more comprehensive guidance for reporting issues on the site. Implemented via two commits to ensure content accuracy and a cohesive user journey (6a5491e6798efd460b15974a8500c92421ebf923; 1c72f77ef340609efe9e3322bcabe0a80eb71243). Major bugs fixed: - Fix Clarity tracking code ID: Updated the Clarity tracking code ID to ensure accurate tracking of user interactions and data collection (53a8bc8183904051f110e9875a73aa6d46ac31aa). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved user guidance reduces reporting friction and supports higher-quality issue submissions. - Analytics data quality is improved through correct Clarity configuration, enabling better product decisions. - Changes are small, well-scoped, and traceable, minimizing risk while delivering customer value. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Front-end copy/content updates and FAQ/content-driven UX improvements. - Analytics/tracking configuration and validation. - Clear commit hygiene and traceability across features/bug fixes. - Quick-turnaround collaboration within the Dumfries-related context and deployment readiness.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on clarifying guidance for issue reporting and ensuring accurate analytics tracking, delivering measurable improvements with minimal risk. Key features delivered: - Enhanced User Guidance for Reporting Issues: Combined front page wording improvements with FAQ updates to provide clearer, more comprehensive guidance for reporting issues on the site. Implemented via two commits to ensure content accuracy and a cohesive user journey (6a5491e6798efd460b15974a8500c92421ebf923; 1c72f77ef340609efe9e3322bcabe0a80eb71243). Major bugs fixed: - Fix Clarity tracking code ID: Updated the Clarity tracking code ID to ensure accurate tracking of user interactions and data collection (53a8bc8183904051f110e9875a73aa6d46ac31aa). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved user guidance reduces reporting friction and supports higher-quality issue submissions. - Analytics data quality is improved through correct Clarity configuration, enabling better product decisions. - Changes are small, well-scoped, and traceable, minimizing risk while delivering customer value. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Front-end copy/content updates and FAQ/content-driven UX improvements. - Analytics/tracking configuration and validation. - Clear commit hygiene and traceability across features/bug fixes. - Quick-turnaround collaboration within the Dumfries-related context and deployment readiness.
April 2026
March 2026
13 Commits • 4 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 focused on strengthening data integrity, user experience, and operational efficiency in fixmystreet. Key deliverables include Open311 data ingestion and external status handling enhancements (wildcard matching, admin UI, support for fetching by specific report IDs, skip-existing optimization), standardized multipart photo filename pattern with auto-orientation, and improvements to user-visible data and notifications (ward/parish suffixes, visibility cut-offs, and external references in Lincolnshire emails). Also fixed a misnamed category in the auto-close flow (Parking enforcement), and added privacy/analytics improvements and PWA visuals to support compliance and user engagement.
March 2026
13 Commits • 4 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 focused on strengthening data integrity, user experience, and operational efficiency in fixmystreet. Key deliverables include Open311 data ingestion and external status handling enhancements (wildcard matching, admin UI, support for fetching by specific report IDs, skip-existing optimization), standardized multipart photo filename pattern with auto-orientation, and improvements to user-visible data and notifications (ward/parish suffixes, visibility cut-offs, and external references in Lincolnshire emails). Also fixed a misnamed category in the auto-close flow (Parking enforcement), and added privacy/analytics improvements and PWA visuals to support compliance and user engagement.
February 2026
3 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered three major features aimed at improving data quality, privacy, and operational efficiency. Implemented mobile number capture from MyGovScot OIDC during login and persistence to user records, added EXIF metadata stripping for photos imported via media_url to align with the existing user-upload processing pipeline, and introduced an automated script to auto-close outdated 'Parking illegally' reports. These changes include tests and are designed to reduce manual workload while improving compliance and data integrity.
3 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered three major features aimed at improving data quality, privacy, and operational efficiency. Implemented mobile number capture from MyGovScot OIDC during login and persistence to user records, added EXIF metadata stripping for photos imported via media_url to align with the existing user-upload processing pipeline, and introduced an automated script to auto-close outdated 'Parking illegally' reports. These changes include tests and are designed to reduce manual workload while improving compliance and data integrity.
February 2026
January 2026
6 Commits • 5 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 — Focused on data integrity, user permissions, and admin configurability across mysociety/fixmystreet. Key accomplishments include implementing Report Update Restriction by Latest Inspection Date to ensure updates are gated by permission, inspection timing, and report state; Dumfries cobrand improvements with default map zoom and privacy controls to stop unsolicited questionnaires; Scotland-specific bank holidays recognition to refine out-of-hours messaging; introduction of a 'planned' state for response templates to improve workflow; and Admin Interface enhancement enabling superusers to add database config entries with validation for duplicates and JSON syntax. These changes strengthen data quality, user experience, privacy compliance, and operational governance.
January 2026
6 Commits • 5 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 — Focused on data integrity, user permissions, and admin configurability across mysociety/fixmystreet. Key accomplishments include implementing Report Update Restriction by Latest Inspection Date to ensure updates are gated by permission, inspection timing, and report state; Dumfries cobrand improvements with default map zoom and privacy controls to stop unsolicited questionnaires; Scotland-specific bank holidays recognition to refine out-of-hours messaging; introduction of a 'planned' state for response templates to improve workflow; and Admin Interface enhancement enabling superusers to add database config entries with validation for duplicates and JSON syntax. These changes strengthen data quality, user experience, privacy compliance, and operational governance.
December 2025
9 Commits • 6 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025: Delivered targeted features and reliability improvements across mysociety/fixmystreet, driving faster page loads, improved admin controls, better defect capture, and cross-cobrands SSO groundwork. Key outcomes include Cobrand-specific UI enhancements, static stat data optimization, enhanced defect reporting UI, extended media upload support, and SSO integration across cobrands, underpinning scalable multi-brand operations.
9 Commits • 6 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025: Delivered targeted features and reliability improvements across mysociety/fixmystreet, driving faster page loads, improved admin controls, better defect capture, and cross-cobrands SSO groundwork. Key outcomes include Cobrand-specific UI enhancements, static stat data optimization, enhanced defect reporting UI, extended media upload support, and SSO integration across cobrands, underpinning scalable multi-brand operations.
December 2025
November 2025
5 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025Month 2025-11 summary: Delivered targeted region-specific improvements for mysociety/fixmystreet in Dumfries, enhanced UI reliability, and improved media rendering. Implemented privacy policy URL, refined geocoder results, and Open311 configuration with site code lookup to improve regulatory compliance, data quality, and reporting to the Alloy backend. Implemented Admin UI cleanup to hide the Updates tab when there are no updates, reducing UI clutter. Resolved thumbnail loading issues by removing the lazy-loading polyfill and relying on native browser support, ensuring thumbnails render correctly in duplicate suggestions. These changes reduce support overhead, improve data accuracy, and bolster performance and maintainability.
November 2025
5 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025Month 2025-11 summary: Delivered targeted region-specific improvements for mysociety/fixmystreet in Dumfries, enhanced UI reliability, and improved media rendering. Implemented privacy policy URL, refined geocoder results, and Open311 configuration with site code lookup to improve regulatory compliance, data quality, and reporting to the Alloy backend. Implemented Admin UI cleanup to hide the Updates tab when there are no updates, reducing UI clutter. Resolved thumbnail loading issues by removing the lazy-loading polyfill and relying on native browser support, ensuring thumbnails render correctly in duplicate suggestions. These changes reduce support overhead, improve data accuracy, and bolster performance and maintainability.
October 2025
7 Commits • 3 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025: Delivered critical data integrity fixes and cobrands enhancements in mysociety/fixmystreet. Key outcomes include: overriding ignored USRNs before sending to Alloy to prevent bad mappings; improving downtime messaging in Echo (distinguishing planned vs unplanned); preserving existing contacts with send_method from service list updates; advancing Aberdeenshire cobrand date handling and jobStartDate parsing; expanding river category filtering for Merton and Camden cobrands with accompanying tests. These changes were supported by targeted tests and config-driven date formatting.
7 Commits • 3 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025: Delivered critical data integrity fixes and cobrands enhancements in mysociety/fixmystreet. Key outcomes include: overriding ignored USRNs before sending to Alloy to prevent bad mappings; improving downtime messaging in Echo (distinguishing planned vs unplanned); preserving existing contacts with send_method from service list updates; advancing Aberdeenshire cobrand date handling and jobStartDate parsing; expanding river category filtering for Merton and Camden cobrands with accompanying tests. These changes were supported by targeted tests and config-driven date formatting.
October 2025
September 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered automated data processing and lifecycle improvements in mysociety/fixmystreet, strengthening data integrity across cobranded deployments and reducing manual intervention. Key outcomes include an automated TfL bus-station report import, configurable per-category inactivity timespans, and defects handling improvements, plus a data normalization fix and a Zurich FAQ update. These changes drive faster issue resolution, better cross-brand data consistency, and improved user support.
September 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered automated data processing and lifecycle improvements in mysociety/fixmystreet, strengthening data integrity across cobranded deployments and reducing manual intervention. Key outcomes include an automated TfL bus-station report import, configurable per-category inactivity timespans, and defects handling improvements, plus a data normalization fix and a Zurich FAQ update. These changes drive faster issue resolution, better cross-brand data consistency, and improved user support.
August 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 update for mysociety/fixmystreet: Highlights include Waste Web App PWA enhancements with property-aware branding and URL, integration of PWA flow on the property page, and improved messaging when councils do not accept reports. These changes improve onboarding, reduce user friction, and strengthen cross-team alignment around property-context UX and branding.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 update for mysociety/fixmystreet: Highlights include Waste Web App PWA enhancements with property-aware branding and URL, integration of PWA flow on the property page, and improved messaging when councils do not accept reports. These changes improve onboarding, reduce user friction, and strengthen cross-team alignment around property-context UX and branding.
August 2025
July 2025
10 Commits • 4 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered key features across cobrand enhancements for Aberdeenshire and Bristol, strengthened data ingestion tooling, and improved input validation—driving reliability, consistency, and efficiency in user support flows and Open311 integrations. The month included tangible business value: clearer user communications, better default map views, more accurate category handling in Open311 with audit trails, safer and more predictable data ingestion, and standardized zero-cost formatting for Adelante items. These changes reduce operational risk, improve data quality, and enable faster adaptation for future integrations.
July 2025
10 Commits • 4 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered key features across cobrand enhancements for Aberdeenshire and Bristol, strengthened data ingestion tooling, and improved input validation—driving reliability, consistency, and efficiency in user support flows and Open311 integrations. The month included tangible business value: clearer user communications, better default map views, more accurate category handling in Open311 with audit trails, safer and more predictable data ingestion, and standardized zero-cost formatting for Adelante items. These changes reduce operational risk, improve data quality, and enable faster adaptation for future integrations.
June 2025
19 Commits • 5 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered region-focused Cobrand enhancements for Aberdeenshire, improved Open311 data handling and exports, refined geocoder/Traffic Scotland integration, strengthened authentication UX with OpenID Connect, and privacy/compliance via cookie banner analytics. Implemented targeted bug fixes around report visibility and default attributes. These efforts deliver more accurate regional data, improved user experience, stronger regulatory alignment, and scalable data export capabilities for local authority workflows.
19 Commits • 5 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered region-focused Cobrand enhancements for Aberdeenshire, improved Open311 data handling and exports, refined geocoder/Traffic Scotland integration, strengthened authentication UX with OpenID Connect, and privacy/compliance via cookie banner analytics. Implemented targeted bug fixes around report visibility and default attributes. These efforts deliver more accurate regional data, improved user experience, stronger regulatory alignment, and scalable data export capabilities for local authority workflows.
June 2025
May 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on delivering Aberdeenshire cobranding enhancements, including a site_code lookup during report submission to improve data accuracy and integration, and enabling multi-photo uploads to Open311 to enrich user-submitted reports. No major bugs fixed this month; efforts were concentrated on feature delivery, data quality, and cobranding workflow improvements. Business impact includes more accurate data, faster downstream processing, and a better user experience for Aberdeenshire cobranding flows. Technologies demonstrated include API integration with Open311, data validation/mapping in the report pipeline, and Git-driven feature delivery in a Rails-like web application environment.
May 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on delivering Aberdeenshire cobranding enhancements, including a site_code lookup during report submission to improve data accuracy and integration, and enabling multi-photo uploads to Open311 to enrich user-submitted reports. No major bugs fixed this month; efforts were concentrated on feature delivery, data quality, and cobranding workflow improvements. Business impact includes more accurate data, faster downstream processing, and a better user experience for Aberdeenshire cobranding flows. Technologies demonstrated include API integration with Open311, data validation/mapping in the report pipeline, and Git-driven feature delivery in a Rails-like web application environment.
April 2025
5 Commits • 3 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary: Delivered Cobrand-specific feature work, strengthened authentication and visibility controls, and fixed routing gaps across fixmystreet. These changes improve user experience, reduce triage time, and strengthen security and data integrity across Cobrand deployments.
5 Commits • 3 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary: Delivered Cobrand-specific feature work, strengthened authentication and visibility controls, and fixed routing gaps across fixmystreet. These changes improve user experience, reduce triage time, and strengthen security and data integrity across Cobrand deployments.
April 2025
March 2025
7 Commits • 7 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 (2025-03) performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. The month centered on delivering key features, improving data accuracy for payments, enhancing cobrand-specific UX, expanding admin controls, and strengthening reporting UX. These efforts jointly increased user trust, operational clarity, and maintainability while delivering measurable business value.
March 2025
7 Commits • 7 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 (2025-03) performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. The month centered on delivering key features, improving data accuracy for payments, enhancing cobrand-specific UX, expanding admin controls, and strengthening reporting UX. These efforts jointly increased user trust, operational clarity, and maintainability while delivering measurable business value.
February 2025
14 Commits • 6 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: delivered new user-facing features across Surrey and Bexley cobrands, improved data integration and validation, and tightened email routing to support scalable, accurate operations. Key features delivered include Surrey Email Footer CTA; Garden Waste Cancellation UX Improvements; Garden Waste Subscription Data Integration; Bexley payment display and content/eligibility enhancements. Critical fixes include Symology email handling exclusion for Agile reports and Direct Debit bank details validation before API submission. Overall, these efforts boost engagement, ensure data integrity, reinforce compliance, and reduce operational risk.
14 Commits • 6 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: delivered new user-facing features across Surrey and Bexley cobrands, improved data integration and validation, and tightened email routing to support scalable, accurate operations. Key features delivered include Surrey Email Footer CTA; Garden Waste Cancellation UX Improvements; Garden Waste Subscription Data Integration; Bexley payment display and content/eligibility enhancements. Critical fixes include Symology email handling exclusion for Agile reports and Direct Debit bank details validation before API submission. Overall, these efforts boost engagement, ensure data integrity, reinforce compliance, and reduce operational risk.
February 2025
January 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on performance optimization and data accuracy improvements that deliver business value to municipalities and end users. Implemented Roadworks Layer Activation Optimization to minimize unnecessary Street Manager API calls and boost map responsiveness. Refactored garden waste subscription retrieval for Bexley Council to correctly associate service details (including bin counts) and updated frontend templates to consistently display current subscriptions, renewal dates, and management options. These changes reduce API load, improve data correctness, and enhance user experience across maps and subscription dashboards.
January 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Focused on performance optimization and data accuracy improvements that deliver business value to municipalities and end users. Implemented Roadworks Layer Activation Optimization to minimize unnecessary Street Manager API calls and boost map responsiveness. Refactored garden waste subscription retrieval for Bexley Council to correctly associate service details (including bin counts) and updated frontend templates to consistently display current subscriptions, renewal dates, and management options. These changes reduce API load, improve data correctness, and enhance user experience across maps and subscription dashboards.
December 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered Surrey Cobrand ReCAPTCHA bypass with a requires_recaptcha function returning false for Surrey cobrand, reducing user friction while preserving business rules. Added targeted tests to verify that ReCAPTCHA is not shown for the Surrey cobrand under varying conditions. All changes were implemented within the mysociety/fixmystreet repository and linked to a single commit, ensuring traceability and maintainability of the feature.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered Surrey Cobrand ReCAPTCHA bypass with a requires_recaptcha function returning false for Surrey cobrand, reducing user friction while preserving business rules. Added targeted tests to verify that ReCAPTCHA is not shown for the Surrey cobrand under varying conditions. All changes were implemented within the mysociety/fixmystreet repository and linked to a single commit, ensuring traceability and maintainability of the feature.
December 2024
November 2024
6 Commits • 5 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered targeted feature enhancements, permission controls, UI improvements, and improved observability across the platform. Key outcomes include enabling Street Manager for Shropshire with visual pin customizations; introducing Nottinghamshire Police 'manage_states' permission; reducing admin sidebar width to improve content area; revamping bulky items editing interface for a cleaner full-width layout with conditional per-item pricing; and enhancing error logging and error reporting to improve triage and diagnostics. These changes provide immediate business value by improving frontline workflow, strengthening access controls, and reducing support time through better diagnostic data.
November 2024
6 Commits • 5 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered targeted feature enhancements, permission controls, UI improvements, and improved observability across the platform. Key outcomes include enabling Street Manager for Shropshire with visual pin customizations; introducing Nottinghamshire Police 'manage_states' permission; reducing admin sidebar width to improve content area; revamping bulky items editing interface for a cleaner full-width layout with conditional per-item pricing; and enhancing error logging and error reporting to improve triage and diagnostics. These changes provide immediate business value by improving frontline workflow, strengthening access controls, and reducing support time through better diagnostic data.
October 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 — Focused on Graffiti Reporting System Enhancements in mysociety/fixmystreet to improve reporting UX and streamline creation flow; implemented prefill of category/description from the front page into the report creation path and added guidance for reporting on private land with legal notes. This work aligns with UX improvement, regulatory clarity, and reducing friction in citizen reporting.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 — Focused on Graffiti Reporting System Enhancements in mysociety/fixmystreet to improve reporting UX and streamline creation flow; implemented prefill of category/description from the front page into the report creation path and added guidance for reporting on private land with legal notes. This work aligns with UX improvement, regulatory clarity, and reducing friction in citizen reporting.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness93.4%
Maintainability89.8%
Architecture86.4%
Performance89.0%
AI Usage20.2%
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