[ckan-dev] Hiding groups on CKAN sites

Ian Ward ian at excess.org
Thu Apr 18 14:39:28 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 18 April 2013 13:04, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> > The groups functionality is intended to facilitate this so I suggest
>> > renaming that!
>>
>> Renaming the groups feature at this point would be quite a pain though,
>> easier to just use it with the name it has even if it's not a very good
>> name anymore
>>
>
> Renaming things is generally really problematic.
>
> The lesson here is that we should think about the name much, much more than
> we do before adding a new feature.

I'd be happy if the package -> dataset rename was a little further along.

In the API if dataset_show, _create, _update existed and were aliases
for package_*, wouldn't there be no more "packages" for end users to
care about?

Ian




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