[ckan-discuss] Spam groups on the Data Hub

Wed Dec 7 18:59:23 GMT 2011

David,

I still don't understand.

I'm doing the following steps:

1. http://thedatahub.org/group/boxing
2. Click “Edit”
3. Set “State” to “deleted”
4. “Save Changes”

Now I'm back at the group page.

Clicking on “Edit” again shows that “State” is still “active”. This makes me believe that my change to “deleted” was not saved.

The group page is still visible even if I log out or change browsers.

Can you confirm that this is the expected behaviour?

I don't understand the semantics of deletion because it seems to have no effect whatsoever as far as I can tell.

Best,
Richard

On 7 Dec 2011, at 17:57, David Read wrote:

>>> Yes, a sysadmin account can still 'see' 'deleted' packages - see
>>> http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1283 which is aimed at making this
>>> clearer. You could fire up another browser or go into 'private
>>> browsing' mode (so as you're not logged in) and confirm it has gone
>>> for other users.
>> 
>> I don't think that's the problem. The one you deleted (cool-gadget, see link above) shows as 404 for me, while the one I tried to delete (boxing, see link above) is still there. Changing browsers or logging out doesn't change anything.
> 
> Yes, that's because cool-gadget was purged, and I showed you the less
> convoluted way - deletion.
> 
> The delete and purge features are not really visible to average users,
> so in general are not very slick, I'm afraid, but do work if you
> follow the docs:
> http://wiki.ckan.org/Managing_Datasets#What.27s_the_Difference_Between_Deletion_and_Purging_.3F
> 
> David