[ckan-dev] Recent CKAN development

[Adrià Mercader]

Hi all,

We will be able to go through these and other new developments on the
tech track next week at CKANCon. Hopefully we will be able to stream
and/or record it for those not able to attend.

Adrià

On 24 September 2016 at 18:57, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
> Yes, a blog post is a great idea. There's a small example extension of
> a "proposed dataset" workflow included in CKAN now
> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/ckanext/example_ipermissionlabels/plugin.py
>
> Much more complicated workflows can be built in the same way.
> Permission labels are really flexible.
>
> Ian
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 4:54 AM, David Miller
> <david at openhealthcare.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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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