[ckan-dev] Moderation

Mon Aug 5 13:44:30 UTC 2013

It's also possible that there may be errors in the user guide, which
would be helpful to know so that I can correct them.

It would be good if it could be added to the docs rather than sit on
the wiki as at present, so that it will get versioned with the
software.

Mark

On 05/08/2013, Aaron McGlinchy <McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
> Thanks Adri
>
> Ok - so have remove the moderation config setting.  The CKAN User guide
> says:
> " An Organization's administrators can add add individual users to the
> Organization, with different roles depending on the level of authorisation
> needed. A user in an Organization can create a dataset owned by that
> Organization. In the default setup, this dataset is initially private, and
> visible only to other users in the Organization. When it is ready for
> publication, it can be published at the press of a button. This may require
> a higher authorisation level within the Organization."
>
> Our install is vanilla  CKAN 2.0, so by default it should have a dataset as
> Private - however when we add new datasets it is set to Public by default -
> this might have changed since we tweaked the Config file, I think it used to
> default as Private (not 100% sure).  What settings might have affected
> this?
>
> In terms of workflow/authorisation, a user with Editor authorisation creates
> a dataset, sets it to Private (though they are being allowed to set it to
> public if they wish).  Editor shouldn't according to User guide be able to
> set to Public - but they can?  "...published at the press of a button" -
> where should I find this (publish) button.  If logged in as an Admin of the
> Organisation, I can see the private dataset listed but there is no button to
> simply switch it to Public - I have to go into the dataset, edit it, change
> the Visibility field to Public, Update the Dataset?  Is there somewhere else
> I should be looking?
>
> Is there something weird with our installation that authorisation is not
> working as described in the user guide/CKAN documentation?  In the CKAN Beta
> 2.1 I can administer an organisation, look at its datasets and I do see a
> "Make Public" button, but in CKAN 2.0 under Organisation Admin I only get a
> tab to admin Members.
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
>
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> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:15:48 +0100
> From: Adri? Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] Moderation
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> Hi Aaron,
>
> The moderated configuration option is deprecated and should be removed from
> the docs (there is an issue regarding this that should obviously be
> prioritized [1]) I suggest you remove this option from your configuration
> file as it causes problems with datasets not being updated.
>
> Starting with CKAN 2.0, the dataset moderation is done only via the
> Public/Private field, which you are already using. Users with admin
> permissions over the dataset should be able to make it public / private.
> This will most likely work as expected if you remove the moderated setting
> from the ini file.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Adri?
>
> [1] https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/1139
>
> On 2 August 2013 06:07, Aaron McGlinchy
> <McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
>> Hi ? we are experimenting with setting the Config file option
>> moderated = True.
>>
>>
>>
>> This has had the result of an Editor Level user uploading a file,
>> setting it to be Public, but the dataset shows as private (lock ?logo?
>> appears beside it even though visibility set to Public).  This was sort of
>> expected.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, how does the dataset get moderated?  There was no flag to me
>> as Sysadmin that the datset needed moderating (maybe a message did go
>> to the organisation Admin (they are away today)?).  Either way ? as
>> Sysadmin I went in and edited the dataset, for a start just clicked
>> update (to confirm the existing setting of public visibility) but that
>> did not change anything.  I then changed the visibility back to
>> Private, updated, then changed it back to Public and updated ? still the
>> file is flagged as Private.
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I not seeing something and not being able to ?release? the dataset
>> to the public because I am not the Organisation Admin?  If so then
>> Sysadmin might or might not not want to get notifications, but should
>> be able to release a dataset.
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I missing something? Who/how do we approve release of datasets if
>> moderate=true?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Aaron
>>
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> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:02:25 +0100
> From: David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
> Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] Is there a sample CKAN Deployment Diagram, in
>         UML?
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> Marco,
>
> >From a quick look at this diagram I think all you'd need to change is
> the CKAN version number. The related components and their version numbers
> look fine to me.
>
> Of course, you will probably have to change lots of your customized
> templates to do the upgrade, and testing everything, but most things about
> CKAN's integration haven't changed.
>
> David
>
>
> On 1 August 2013 12:17, Marco Combetto <marcomb at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Adria
>>
>> It takes a while but we we did the diagram for version 1.8 Not sure
>> how different is the CKAN 2.0x We are using the 1.8, but we are
>> planning to migrate to 2.0x asap, so we will have to update it very
>> soon.
>>
>> Could you give some feedback/review?  (e.g we are not sure how we
>> describde
>> Duplicity)
>> Could be useful for anybody else to add this kind of schema to the
>> CKAN documentation?
>>
>> Any feedback is welcome.
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Marco Combetto
>> marcomb at hotmail.com
>> Mobile: +39 3316329971
>> www.linkedin.com/in/marcomb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:51:55 +0100
>>> From: adria.mercader at okfn.org
>>> To: ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
>>> Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] Is there a sample CKAN Deployment Diagram, in
>>> UML?
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Marco,
>>>
>>> Such a diagram does not exist as far as I know.
>>>
>>> Adri?
>>>
>>> On 25 June 2013 11:44, Marco Combetto <marcomb at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hallo
>>> >
>>> > We are working to setting up our CKAN production environment based
>>> > on CKAN
>>> > (http://dati.trentino.it)
>>> > I have an internal requirement to provide the CKAN description
>>> > through its deployment diagram.
>>> > I didn't find one in the official documentation.
>>> >
>>> > Is there anyone that would like to share it? Any pointing link?
>>> > Apologize if it is already available somewhere, I didn't find it
>>> >
>>> > Thanks a lot
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Marco Combetto
>>> > marcomb at hotmail.com
>>> > Mobile: +39 3316329971
>>> > www.linkedin.com/in/marcomb
>>> >
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> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:08:21 +0100
> From: Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ckan-dev] broken master fix
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> master was broken yesterday due to a clash between the auth audit branch and
> some work on the datastore
>
> a fix is here https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/1151
>
> basically because the datastore resource_show wraps the ckan resource_show
> and the auth audit just cared about names this failed.
> The fix also cares about the id of the function so it can tell the two
> resource shows apart
>
> It would be good to get master fixed :) can someone review this?
>
> @kindly as you merged the auth audit you may be the best placed.
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