[ckan-dev] Recent CKAN development

Sat Sep 24 08:54:32 UTC 2016

Hi Ian,

If I understand these properly, then 1 & 2 are really great news !

With a previous project we had to find non-CKAN processes to cope with
several data flows within institutions because users found the permissions
/ search / list behaviour too limited / confusing and we didn't have enough
project capacity to dive into CKAN and fix/patch the internals.

Keep up the great work !

(P.S. I'm sure others on our team would appreciate a blog post outlining
how these new permissions can be used to enable alternative data flows from
a user perspective.)

Best

David Miller
Open Health Care

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 at 16:37 Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'd like to draw attention to a few features recently added to ckan master.
>
> 1. Private datasets are now included on main /dataset/ search page.
>
> We used to have to go to the organization pages to see private datasets,
> but
> now they are included in the normal search page. The package_search
> API is more complete now too, if you want private datasets returned
> just pass include_private=True. This change will be available in the
> upcoming CKAN 2.6 release. Full details are in
> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/3191
>
> 2. New interface for fine-grained permissions
>
> It used to be very difficult to enforce custom dataset permission
> rules by overriding the package_show auth and overriding the
> package_search controller. Now we have a single simple interface that
> lets us set which users can see which datasets: IPermissionLabels.
> This change will be available in the upcoming CKAN 2.7 release. Full
> details are in https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/3192
>
> 3. New standard for background jobs
>
> CKAN 2.7 will come with a standard way to schedule, query and cancel
> background jobs based on python-rq. This will greatly simplify all
> sorts of extensions that operate on uploaded data or call out to
> external services. Full details are in
> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/3165
>
> There's lots more coming in the next few months, including our first
> controller fully migrated to Flask; extending and improving
> activities; per-plugin extras for users, datasets, groups and orgs.
>
> A big thanks to everyone involved, and if you're coming to CKANCon
> I'll see you in about 10 days!
>
> Ian
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