[ckan-discuss] Spam groups on the Data Hub

Thu Dec 8 12:22:33 GMT 2011

On 7 December 2011 18:59, Richard Cyganiak <richard at cyganiak.de> wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I got the impression you hadn't tried the steps because of the
confusion with the other method. Now I can see there is a bug.

Thinking back, I believe this never got implemented because we simply
purged spammed groups. And the state field got exposed somewhere along
the line, without it working yet.

I've created a ticket and should have an implementation later today.
http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1536

I'll also fix the name of the History group you mentioned.

Many thanks and sorry for the confusion,
David

>
> 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
>