psiTurk: An open platform for science on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Published May 14, 2021 | Version v3.2.0

Software Open

Added

Add custom MTurk qualification support (#493)
/dashboard/campaigns and /dashboard/tasks now warn if do_scheduler is False (#502)
amt_services_wrapper's _get_local_hitids no longer queries the Participants table for hitids. Instead, it wholly relies on the Hit table (amt_hits by default). (#498) -- Thanks @evankirkiles!

Experiments that are migrating from psiturk v2 should run the new psiturk migrate db command when migrating to this release.

Fixed

user_utils.PsiTurkAuthorization should not allow empty username or password! (#492)
aws env vars AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY are now preferred over anything set in a config file somewhere (#496, #500)
Dashboard will refuse to start if secret_key is missing or if no valid mturk credentials (#497)
Scheduler is started "paused" if do_scheduler is False, so that tasks can still be created, modified, and destroyed (#502)
Campaigns' "update goal" functionality fixed -- the associated task is updated with the new goal (#502)
example template for thanks-mturksubmit was missing a call to {{ super() }}, leading to no styles being loaded by default (#503)

Changed

Migrate from Travis CI to Github Actions (#500)
API now uses a custom error handler to pass sometimes-gory exception messages back to the api user (#502)
Change the Participant.datastring column to be lazy-loaded, causing the datastring to not be loaded by the sqlalchemy model until explicilty requested. Leads to massive speed increases for any query involving the Participant table for cases where the datastring is large. (Thanks @evankirkiles!)(#504)

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