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

[Toby Dacre]

On 16 November 2012 11:36, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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 saying that it has been replaced by a builtin feature in 2.0, but the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?
>
>
I suspect we have no docs for the built-in it may be worth a quick review
too as it was just created for the demo and may not have had much
non-visual testing.

As far as ckanext-social it would works with 2.0 (it just creates a helper
function) even though it uses genshi templates so will not work when they
get dropped.

It would be good to decide exactly how we handle the change to 2.0 for
extensions in general

the options I see are

1) create new ckanext-social2 type extensions in own git repo
2) have shared code to work with both 1.x and 2.x - more work but possible
need dual templates etc
3) just move all extensions to 2.0
4) create a 1.0 and 2.0 branch and publish to pypi as ext==1, ext==2
5) something else I haven't thought of
6) ignore the issue and hope it goes away ;p

I think option 4 would be the best option but need some co-ordination

Toby

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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