[ckan-dev] Moving organization

David Raznick david.raznick at okfn.org
Mon Oct 8 16:26:11 UTC 2012


This is beyond scope of the original work so not sure how we will find
time to do this.

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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
>>
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>> 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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