[ckan-dev] Dev Meeting Notes - 2013-12-10

Tue Dec 10 13:24:05 UTC 2013

2013-12-10


Chair - Joe
Notes - Adrià
Apologies - David Read


Agenda
* Pull Requests.
   * Priorities (strings):
      * https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/607 (johnmartin)
      * https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/1358 (johnmartin)
      * https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/1258 (kindly)
   * https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/1350 (Remove string for the
time being in separare PR?)
* Issues.
* General Questions:
   * Sean needs ideas for javascript examples
   * Add new agenda items.


Meeting Notes:
* PRs:
* #1358: John to review and merge today
* #1258: kindly to review and merge today
* #1350: Ian wants a way of migrating the data. command (plus related
revisions) vs db migration.
   * Do we need the migration? Yes, it will be a paster command that
cleans up the formats for you.
   * We need to document that you need a reindex. Ian to test whether
this breaks things with custom schemas
   * ACTION: Separate PR for removing the current string under the Format field
* #1038: orgs. merge soonish
* #1208:
   * returning the whole package dict now, backwards compatible and
consistent with other functions
   * ACTION: new param for not returning the list, add tests for it
* Issues:
* openSuse: might be interesting, will be probably complicated. Good
for contribution
* #1378: could be added to the predefined homepage layouts. It’s the
same that is done on Sean’s tutorial.
* #1374: datastore eats up DB connections. Need to check what versions
it affects
* #1372: we won’t prefill the name field, just the display_name with
the file name.
* #1366: we have the creator_user_id now on the table. Removing them
will be a pain, maybe we can hide them from the form.
* #1362: related, maybe deprecate paster db dump/restore? We don’t
seem to use it ourselves anyway. They have auth issues and it’s much
easier to use pg_dump/pg_restore directly, we can document how to do
that.
* #1361: people use master, how can we improve it in the docs?
* #1360: we are not changing the API behaviour with partial updates
* JS examples:
   * Popover on dataset listing
   * Integrate external widget/library:
      * Map: https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial/blob/master/ckanext/spatial/public/js/dataset_map.js
      * Preview:
https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial/blob/master/ckanext/spatial/public/js/geojson_preview.js
      * TableSorter:
https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-iati/blob/master/ckanext/iati/theme/fanstatic_library/scripts/tablesorter.js
* Frontend testing: currently Mocha + PhantomJS