[ckan-dev] [ckan-discuss] Requiring login to edit / create stuff on thedatahub.org (ckan.net)

[David Read]

On 29 August 2011 18:29, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 22 August 2011 13:23, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Rufus,
>>
>>> Done. From now on you will need to sign up to edit / create data packages.
>>
>> The first of these works, but visitors can still edit data packages.
>
> Yes. That's true.
>
>> To achieve this, we need to do a 'chmod -R' style command to change
>> the permissions for the existing packages:
>>
>> paster rights make visitor reader package:all
>> paster rights remove visitor editor package:all
>>
>> and change the permissions that new packages receive:
>>
>> ckan.default_roles.Package = {“visitor”: [“reader”], “logged_in”: [“editor”]}
>>
>> Are you happy for me to do these? (I'll also add these details to the docs)
>
> No, let's not do this yet as we may revert to open-editing once we
> have spam better sorted out and after some further discussion (quite a
> few people have indicated on e.g. irc that they like open editing and
> we may want to think about distinction between e.g. needing to sign up
> to create versus signup to edit).

I've just discussed this with Rufus and have now made it so that
log-in is necessary to edit packages on thedatahub.org. (We've had
this rule for creating packages for some time.)

David

>
> Rufus