[ckan-dev] HRI Lockdown

Thu Mar 10 11:10:36 UTC 2011

Hi David,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> BTW obviously your requirement goes a bit further than this, but we've
> also done some work on authorization as well this week that might be
> of interest - configuring the default permissions for new packages
> etc. and extending your authztool to do operations on all packages. So
> with this you can change visitor and logged-in edit permissions to
> read-only, requiring all changes to be done by sysadmins only.
> http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1025

thanks for the pointer - I'd seen the commits yesterday and I think
they're a great improvement. Unfortunately the lockdown branch is from
Monday, so some degree of merges will be involved but I'll do that.

- Friedrich