Creating (a) new frontend(s) for Polis
This post originally appeared at https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/149 and describes the development of the Particiapp/PolisNL project which has since been incorporated into the Voxit project.
The case for a new approach towards customized frontends
Our initial experiences of working with Polis, the effort required to implement more invasive changes and the desire of iterating changes more rapidly ultimately lead to the decision to create a new foundation for frontend development that would be independent of but compatible with the upstream project.