[ckan-dev] Mark ckanext-social as deprecated>

Fri Nov 16 11:36:08 UTC 2012

I'm guessing ckanext-social doesn't work with CKAN 2.0 and there's no
plan to upgrade it?  I'd like to add a note to the top of the README
saying that it has been replaced by a builtin feature in 2.0, but the
extension can still be used in 1.x. Any docs for the builtin social
sharing buttons in 2.0, or shall I add some?

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:34:15AM +0000, Toby Dacre wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 23:55, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>wrote:
> 
> > sharethis can show how many people Tweeted about a dataset, which we
> > like at DGU and continue to use ckanext-social. I assume it is not
> > trivial to do this with the social snippet?
> >
> 
> Good point David, even if it is not very accurate, the 'built in' social
> uses no JavaScript as it is just links and so cannot give counts. Trying to
> actually get numbers from twitter etc would be a maintenance nightmare.  I
> think this may be why ShareThis gives wrong numbers as it just uses it's
> own counters not the real ones.
> 
> 
> > Dave
> >
> > On 13 November 2012 12:11, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
> > > The core social snippet should be easy to extend with your own sharing
> > > needs anyway and I don't like sharethis either, so I'm +1 on
> > > deprecating ckanext-social.
> > >
> > > Adrià
> > >
> > > On 13 November 2012 11:41, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 13 November 2012 10:57, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hey, since CKAN 2.0 seems to have Twitter, Facebook etc. buttons on
> > >>> dataset pages in core now, does that mean that ckanext-social should be
> > >>> deprecated? (or at least say it's not necessary with CKAN 2.0)
> > >>>
> > >>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-social
> > >>>
> > >> The functionality is slightly different ckanext-social uses ShareThis
> > which
> > >> allows potentially many more sharing options share via email etc but
> > >> essentially feels like web bug spyware in my paranoid mindset :)
> > >>
> > >> I'd be happy for it to die even if it is my bastard love child
> > >>
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