Bug SAFeSEA#34, added Uptime controller; error-handling to CHANGELONG

* [iet:10301360][ci skip]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,29 +5,31 @@
 ## [Version 3.0.0](https://github.com/IET-OU/openEssayist-slim/releases/tag/3.0.0-beta)
 
  * Date:  ~6 February 2018 _(Development: 10 Jan - 6 Feb.)_
- * Tag:   _3.0.0-beta_  (Describe: `v2.6-102-ga272bfe`)
+ * Tag:   _3.0.0-beta_  (Describe: `v2.6-104-g9c0b3c5`)
  * Notes: [Google Docs][]
  * Built on:  PHP 7.0 / Slim framework v 2.2.0 / MySQL
 
-Below are the _headline_ items. More details are in [Google Docs][].
+Below are the __headline__ items. More details are in [Google Docs][].
 
 ### PHP
 
- * Added _OU-SAMS_-based authentication and account creation - via separate library (Bug #27)
+ * Added _OU-SAMS_-based authentication and account creation — via separate library (Bug #27)
  * Fix PHP dependencies - upgrade from `dev-master` to released versions, in `composer.json` and `composer.lock` (Bug #20)
- * Configuration - rename `app/config.php` to `app/config.DIST.php`,
- * Configuration - make `rd_save_path`, `analyser_url` etc. configurable (Bug #23)
+ * Configuration — rename `app/config.php` to `app/config.DIST.php`,
+ * Configuration — make `rd_save_path`, `analyser_url` etc. configurable (Bug #23)
  * Added [Travis-CI][] continuous integration, with PHP linting [QA] (maintainability) (Bug #20)
  * Moved core _EssayAnalyser_ wrapper code to separate class (maintainability) (Bug #32)
  * Moved a lot of `require` and `Twig` configuration from front controller (`index.php`) to separate PHP files (maintainability) (Bug #31)
  * Moved database connection code from `app/config.php` to separate class (Bug #31)
  * Broke model classes into separate files (find-ability),
- * Added missing logging (debugging aid, analytics),
+ * Added missing logging; improved error-handling (debugging aid, analytics),
+ * Added _status_ / _uptime_ controller — shows status of backend analyser service (as well as front),
  * Eased and documented installation and setup, via [README][], Composer `scripts`.
 
 ### User-interface
 
- * Added configurable `maxlength` character limit to the draft-essay submission form - prevent analyser errors, load (Bug #30)
+ * Added configurable `maxlength` character limit to the draft-essay submission form - prevent analyser errors; server-load (Bug #30)
+ * Made error messages to user more user-friendly - for example, prefixed them with "_Sorry. ..._".
 
 ### Database
 
@@ -50,11 +52,12 @@ Below are the _headline_ items. More details are in [Google Docs][].
 
 ### Miscellaneous
 
- * Add missing Open University copyright statements - in PHP, Javascript, user-interface, `composer.json` (Bug #20)
+ * Add missing Open University copyright statements — in PHP, Javascript, user-interface, `composer.json` (Bug #20)
  * Added _Nicolas Van Labeke_ (`vanch3d`) to `composer.json`
- * Remove `./composer.phar` binary from Git,
- * Remove `./openessayist.sql.zip` (2.6 MB)
+ * Removed legacy `composer.phar` binary from Git; removed `./openessayist.sql.zip` (2.6 MB)
  * Moved unused Javascript from Twig templates to separate JS file(s),
+ * Added test data — sourced from [Project Gutenberg][pg] and [ORO][]
+
 
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 ## [Version 2.7](https://github.com/IET-OU/openEssayist-slim/releases/tag/v2.7)
@@ -75,7 +78,7 @@ Below are the _headline_ items. More details are in [Google Docs][].
 
 ## Previous versions
 
-* v2.4, v2.3, v2.2, v2_user_testing - 15 May to 16 August 2013.
+* v2.4, v2.3, v2.2, v2_user_testing — 15 May to 16 August 2013.
 * See:  [releases][]
 * Original developer:  [vanch3d][].
 
@@ -92,6 +95,8 @@ Below are the _headline_ items. More details are in [Google Docs][].
 [travis-ci]: https://travis-ci.org/IET-OU/openEssayist-slim "Travis-CI continuous integration"
 [Google Docs]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6T2zJ1FMifHGEniYyU_V2d0F8WOHWb_JPRqEWCyR2Y/# "Release notes"
 [vanch3d]: https://github.com/vanch3d "Original developer: Nicolas Van Labeke (vanch3d)"
+[oro]: http://oro.open.ac.uk/cgi/search/simple?meta=OpenEssayist&
+[pg]: https://www.gutenberg.org/
 
 [travis]: https://travis-ci.org/IET-OU/openEssayist-slim "IET-OU / openEsasyist-slim"
 [travis-icon]: https://travis-ci.org/IET-OU/openEssayist-slim.svg