[ckan-dev] Help shape the CKAN roadmap

[Irina Bolychevsky]

Also, oops, different Ross commenting to roadmap - all my thanks are being
redirected to Ross Jones ;)

You can have it back, if you go vote too!

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On 25 June 2013 10:20, Irina Bolychevsky <irina.bolychevsky at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey Ross,
>
> Thank you for this! And I see you're adding things to the roadmap (
> https://trello.com/board/ckan-roadmap-ideas-requests/50b4ef4201d86a1603002077)
> too - awesome.
>
> Just to reply quickly:
> 1. Better multilingualism: Be good to get more detail on this, ideally
> here:
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/Ideas:-new-feature-requests-&-ideas
> 2. Performance: I think there's been some performance fixes already that
> need to be merged in, but will look into this / add a card.
> 3. Accessibility: Can you add this to:
> https://trello.com/card/accessibility-make-ckan-wcag-2-0-aa-compliant/50b4ef4201d86a1603002077/56
>
> Thanks!
> Ira
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> On 24 June 2013 16:58, Ross Thompson <ross.thompson.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> in implementing data,gc.ca with CKAN 2.0, there were three areas we had
>> to work around. These were:
>>
>> 1. True support for multilingualism is missing in CKAN. Multilingualism
>> to us means much more than string translation, it means support for
>> separate language entities such as English tags and French tags, and
>> English and French values for fields in the dataset.
>> 2. Performance issues when dealing with 180000+ datasets. Loading and
>> updating larges numbers of datasets through the API can take a weekend.
>> 3. Accessibility issues were identified with the user interface and
>> especially with search. We can certainly feed some of these back to OKFN
>> that were identified by our accessibility team.
>>
>> These seem a little bigger than just feature requests, so I thought this
>> might be a better forum to raise these points than just adding them to the
>> road map.
>>
>> In general though, the reaction to the new implementation of our new open
>> data portal with CKAN 2.0 has been really positive, so please don't take
>> these as complaints! We're really looking forward to doing even more with
>> it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ross
>> Statistics Canada
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 June 2013 10:51, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Now that CKAN 2.0 is out, what should the next direction be for CKAN?
>>> We've created a public roadmap and wiki page to help everyone shape
>>> the direction of CKAN by voting and commenting, contributing,
>>> supporting and suggesting new features.
>>>
>>> For full details, see Ira's blog post here:
>>>
>>> http://ckan.org/2013/06/24/ckan-roadmap-goes-public/
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
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