[ckan-dev] Feature: new system checkin / status API

Mon May 9 09:08:14 UTC 2011

I think this is way too complicated.

Just take some contact information from the config, perhaps
distinguishing between site owner and site maintainer, and implement
an API call that makes this information, together with software
version, available.

There is already a ticket for this.

-w

* [2011-05-09 10:02:08 +0100] Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at okfn.org> écrit:

] Hi,
] 
] For various reasons it's useful and/or important to have a list of
] installed CKANs and preferably an admin contact for it too.
] 
] I propose a new config flag "report_existence" which when enabled,
] pings a central CKAN server to register itself.  It should have some
] kind of privacy text associated with it to clearly state what is
] reported if set.  The basic registration process would register the
] site admin email address, the site name, the site domain name, and the
] reporting IP address (in case they've set up the site domain name
] wrongly).
] 
] An API call would allow us to check the health of the system, update
] site name, domain, and admin contact at regular intervals.
] 
] We would also write a simple central registry which lists all systems,
] and perhaps adds some interesting stats about the systems taken from
] their APIs.  When the registry can't contact a site, it should email
] the administrator and ask them to either click on a link to remove the
] site from the registry, or update the site config file to correct it.
] 
] We will need to think what to do for existing systems when they are
] upgraded, w.r.t. privacy implications.  Perhaps fire off an email to
] the administrator telling them that their site has checked in with the
] registry, and telling them how to opt out if they like.
] 
] Finally, the central registry should probably have a way of manually
] adding extra systems that aren't checking in because they've not been
] upgraded.
] 
] How does that sound?  Pending full agreement about CEPs, I will write
] up a seb-CEP as a test, if we think this is a good idea :)
] 
] Seb
] 
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