[ckan-discuss] Moderation on datacatalogs.org?

Tue Aug 2 19:11:12 BST 2011

Hi,

> 1) Introduce a config flag on whether a user should become admin of
> their packages by default.
> 2) Allow defining the default initial package state via a config flag.

Something along those lines is what we'd like going forward certainly,
the main problem with doing it straight away though is that there are
definitely edge cases that haven't been tested in terms of how that
would work with the new revision system. For example, if a user
creates a package/catalog which has a pending state and they aren't
automatically an admin for it, then I don't think they could even view
it afterwards. We'd also have to create a way for admins to be
(automatically?) notified about pending packages. But if you want to
test it out somewhere then great, we'll see how it goes, I don't think
it should be a big problem in terms of auth.

> Yes please. Then I can invite people listed as curators to become
> administrators in the coming weeks! :-D

Ok I'll make the change tomorrow.

Cheers,
John

On 2 August 2011 18:21, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:56 PM, John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org> wrote:
>>  for now we could prevent normal users from creating catalog entries
>> altogether and just leave it to admins?
>
> Yes please. Then I can invite people listed as curators to become
> administrators in the coming weeks! :-D
>
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