[ckan-dev] Blog post write up of new follower extension

[John Glover]

Hi Adrià,

Not at the moment, we're currently just listing users following packages and packages that a user follows on the appropriate pages, but plan to add that sort of functionality in the near future.

Cheers,
John



On 20 May 2011, at 20:17, Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> Great stuff. There's only one thing that is not very clear, at least
> for me. What does "following" a package mean for the user?
> Does he/she get an email when the package is updated?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Adrià
> 
> 2011/5/20 John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A brief post on this is now online at
>> http://ckan.org/2011/05/20/follower-extension-for-ckan/. Let me know
>> if anyone has any suggestions.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> John
>> 
>> On 20 May 2011 10:06, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>> 
>>> I have made you an author on the ckan.org blog - so that for now and
>>> future you should be able to add posts. Please let me know if you have
>>> any issues accessing the account and I will play with the permissions!
>>> 
>>> Would be great to get a blog post written on this - so please let me
>>> know if you are keen!
>>> 
>>> Lucy
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> On 19 May 2011 18:42, John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Rufus,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sure that sounds like a good idea. Markdown or RST is fine.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I had been talking to James and David Raznick about how to go about
>>>>> updating extensions on ckan.net because I thought there may be issues
>>>>> if you had deployed an older version of the extension (that had a
>>>>> slightly different model). David said that he would update it with me
>>>>> so I could sort out any problems. Sorry, we should have said this to
>>>>> you as well, I didn't realise that you were going to update it in the
>>>>> meantime.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes :-) -- let's have this stuff on the list if at all possible.
>>>> 
>>>> Issue: when i did upgrade because of model changes it broke. I blew
>>>> away follower table and all was good but this question of extension
>>>> upgrades is something to think about going forward ...
>>>> 
>>>> rufus
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Lucy Chambers
>>> Community Coordinator
>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>>> http://okfn.org/
>>> Skype: lucyfediachambers
>>> 
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