Automation · Houston, TX
What is stale
This chapter refreshes itself on a weekly timer: it pulls new agendas and meeting video from Houston's portal, re-checks every external link on the site, and rebuilds the search index. This page reports what actually happened, including when it failed.
A site that quietly rots looks identical to one that is current, right up until somebody relies on it. So the status below is generated by the jobs themselves — it is not maintained by hand and cannot be made to look better than it is.
Status
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What each job is allowed to do
- Agendas and meetings. Fetches only documents Houston has already published, from swagit at https://houstontx.new.swagit.com/views/113. It never logs in, never submits anything, and never touches a page the city has not made public.
- Link check. Re-fetches every external link this chapter publishes. Cities move pages, and a records-request link that 404s fails a reader at the exact moment they were about to act.
- Search index. Rebuilds the site's index from the pages and the extracted agenda text, so a resident can search a phrase and land on the agenda that carried it.
- Nothing writes to a government system. Records requests are sent by a person, deliberately, never by a timer.
If a job has been red for a while
That is a bug, not a policy. Tell us — the whole point of publishing this page is that somebody outside the project can see the failure before we do.