Politeia is a system for storing off-chain data that is both versioned and timestamped, essentially “git, a popular revision control system, plus timestamping”. Instead of attempting to store all the data related to Decred’s governance on-chain, we have opted to create an off-chain store of data that is anchored into Decred’s blockchain, minimizing its on-chain footprint.

The politeia stack is as follows:

~~~~~~~~ Internet ~~~~~~~~~
            |
+-------------------------+
|      politeiawww        |
+-------------------------+
            |
+-------------------------+
|        politeiad        |
+-------------------------+
            |
~~~~~~~~ Internet ~~~~~~~~~
            |
+-------------------------+
|        dcrtimed         |
+-------------------------+

Core software:

• politeiad - Reference server daemon. Data layer.
• politeiawww - Web backend server; depends on politeiad. User layer.

The politeiawww APIs and politeiawww client can be treated as stable. All other APIs and libraries should be treated as unstable and subject to breaking changes.

See the politeiad README for instructions on building and running politeiad.

See the politeiawww README for instructions on building and running politeiawww.