[ckan-dev] Docs draft

Wed Jul 27 10:59:39 UTC 2011

First of all, well done Anna for such a great job!

Few comments below:

2011/7/27 Anna Powell-Smith <annapowellsmith at okfn.org>:
> James & I deleted the stuff about manual installation and loaders on
> the grounds that:
>
> 1. Manual installation: We shouldn't be telling anyone to install
> manually unless they really really want to, in which case they'll
> probably already know how to do it
I strongly disagree with this. Manual installation is the lowest
common denominator and should be always available. I had to install
ckan on windows 7 a while ago! We can put all sort of warning signs,
but I think it should be available.

What about production deployment? Can't we elaborate on this one, at
least with apache + mod_wsgi?
http://docs.ckan.org/install.html#deployment-notes

> 2. Loaders: How you use loaders is entirely dependent on the type of
> data you have, so you should talk to ckan-dev before starting
Of course, loading data will be a different issue each time, but maybe
we could add a couple of examples of the most frequent cases (load via
script from csv or using the API)

Adrià