[ckan-dev] Moving organization

Mon Oct 8 14:56:18 UTC 2012

Agreed ...

On 8 October 2012 15:53, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:

> I guess so. It might be a bit annoying to have to involve a sysadmin
> in the case of community instances. Maybe a user who's in both orgs
> should be able to do the move?
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 8 October 2012 13:50, David Raznick <david.raznick at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This was delt with.  The user story was this:
> >
> > **Sysadmins** can move datasets from one organization to another.
> >
> > This is adequate for most instances like data.gov.uk.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mark Wainwright
> > <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
> >> I've just looked at the user stories etc for orgs and groups. One
> >> vital thing that seems to be missing (though perhaps this is already
> >> being dealt with?) is a method for moving a dataset from one org to
> >> another. This is likely to be wanted in various situations - e.g. (on
> >> a community instance) I create some datasets in the 'default' org but
> >> later realise I want them in a new org that I create, or (on an
> >> official instance) responsibility for some area of government is
> >> shifted from one department to another, and all the datasets
> >> maintained under it have to be moved.
> >>
> >> The restriction that each dataset must belong to exactly one org makes
> >> this a bit tricky, especially if the orgs are different departments
> >> and have no members in common - it would seem to require two different
> >> users to authenticate the change.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
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