[ckan-dev] Dev Meeting Notes - 2013-12-05

Thu Dec 5 15:27:22 UTC 2013

Thanks Nigel - this is great! Is there an ongoing doc for meeting agendas
and notes we can follow / see the history of? Did you guys decide who is
chairing & making notes next week?

On 5 December 2013 13:18, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a developer's meeting on Tuesdays and Thursday, and as part of
> being more open about CKAN development and involving the community, we've
> started to have a formal Agenda and taking notes at the meeting. The Agenda
> and notes will be shared on the mailing list at the end of the meeting.
>
> Chair - Adrià
> Notes - Nigel
>
> Agenda
> ======
> * Pull Requests.
> * Issues.
> * General Questions:
>    * Awfulness of package_update API - Nigel
>    * Uncaught API exception - Nigel
>    * locating plugin instances - wardi
>    * API design question re accept headers/appended .json on urls - wardi
>    * How to add new Python module requirements:
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/1155#issuecomment-29745988 - seanh
>
>
> Meeting Notes
> ===========
> * Meetings on IRC?
> * #1358 - Make datastore upload less confusing. Agreed to call the tab
> “DataStore”. Hide tab without datapusher. Assigned to John Martin.
> * Log translation - Needs to be in datapusher. Not critical at the moment.
> * Translation for revisions/activity stream that are stored in the db.
> Constant bits of an activity stream in one column and changing bits in a
> different field. Or actual string can be in code and translated in the
> normal way.
> * #1350 - Pretty big update after Tuesday’s meeting. Moved to validator
> function. List of overridable formats. Cleans up the resource format
> guessing in general. Discussion about being late for 2.2 because of the
> extent of changes, yet undecided. Assigned to Ian Ward, also ask David Read
> to take a look as well.
> * #1351 - Sean opposed to merging it in. OKFN Sphinx theme changed to look
> like okfn.org. This pull request came with other changes as well. RTD one
> looks good on mobile, not the OKF one. Common agreement - use one that
> works best on most devices. As long as we can put logo on the header. Theme
> - we can discuss, but other changes left to Sean to decide. Side note: We
> might want to embed docs into ckan.org site.
> * #1359 - Googlebot finds it, but isn’t actually linked. Good to have fix.
> Assigned to David.
> * #1273 - All done, waiting for final testing and by Nigel.
> * #1356 - Already being discussed in another bug, David to link the other
> bug.
>
> * problems with package_update: partial updates
>    * If you sent a dataset dict without resources the resources get
> deleted (previously there was an allow_partial_updates, it was too painful
> to maintain)
>    * Current situation: you are supposed to call package_show and reupload
> this dict
>    * Documentation needs to be improved, create an issue.
> * API exception: uncaught exception in logic function > 500 + html to the
> user
>    * Nigel: maybe something friendlier
>    * Problem: distinguish between 500 caused at the logic level and eg
> Apache
>    * Leave it for now
> * Ian: Is there a nice way to holding state inside a plugin?
>    * Keep it in an instance and iterate to it.
>    * Declare a global variable.
>    * All the options so far are terrible.
>    * Example - Configuration specific to the plugin.
>    * Different behavior based on context hard to test.
> * Is there a reason for moving away from header to url parameters.
>    * David: Prefer to move to using Accept in the next version of the API.
>    * Throw urls instead of IDs
>    * Action function layer still a good idea.
> * No reasonably practically way to add module to requirements in the
> current environment.
>    * Currently we regenerate the requirements.txt which upgrades all the
> modules - dangerous.
>    * Can’t add one dependency or remove a dependency.
>    * Potential: Add new module to requirements.in and then do pip freeze
> and add only the new modules to requirements.txt - May cause issues with
> dependencies.
>    * David to look into another solution in more detail (buildout).
>
> Nigel Babu
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