[ckan-discuss] Spam groups on the Data Hub

Thu Dec 8 14:16:59 GMT 2011

That's great! Thanks for sorting this out David.

Richard

On 8 Dec 2011, at 12:22, David Read wrote:

> 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
>> 