For instance when a vote is taken on bill X, the text can be someone saying something like, "Let's vote on bill Y now". Clearly this isn't helpful in the context of a vote on bill X.
Also on https://github.com/openaustralia/ukraine_verkhovna_rada_votes/issues/5#issuecomment-142559417 we discussed the possibility of using all the text in the lead up to the vote. Because there's no structured debate data available from the parliament this would be very difficult. The different scenarios of what's available mean our code would be complex and brittle. The usefulness of what we'd get would also be questionable - sometimes the text is quite helpful but other times it's quite concise and confusing.
Until we can work out a way to add useful motion text I'm proposing we leave it blank.
The motion text is usually what's said in parliament immediately before a vote. In the UK that text is displayed:
In Australia the parliament doesn't provide useful text so instead we display a notice:
In https://github.com/openaustralia/ukraine_verkhovna_rada_votes/issues/5#issuecomment-145191106 we scraped what was said at the timestamp of the vote in parliament for the motion text. This is wrong because it's what's being said immediately after the vote.
For instance when a vote is taken on bill
X, the text can be someone saying something like, "Let's vote on billYnow". Clearly this isn't helpful in the context of a vote on billX.Also on https://github.com/openaustralia/ukraine_verkhovna_rada_votes/issues/5#issuecomment-142559417 we discussed the possibility of using all the text in the lead up to the vote. Because there's no structured debate data available from the parliament this would be very difficult. The different scenarios of what's available mean our code would be complex and brittle. The usefulness of what we'd get would also be questionable - sometimes the text is quite helpful but other times it's quite concise and confusing.
Until we can work out a way to add useful motion text I'm proposing we leave it blank.