[Getthedata-discuss] CKAN API

[Rufus Pollock]

On 2 November 2011 16:36, Chris Wallace <kit.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rufus
>
> Sorry to be slow to reply - I seem to have got rather busy, partly with Tim
> Davies on the IATI project.  I'm willing to be more involved in getthedata
> but I'm a bit discouraged by the state of the site.  User pages still dont

That would be great.

> paginate and when I tried it just now, search doesnt work either . Whats the
> current plan?

Current plan is to keep improving. Just yesterday I switched the site
to gunicorn which seemed to significantly improve performance (though
it is still too slow!). We also plan to move servers at some point
soon to improve performance.

Pagination and search both work for m. Can you give more info about
how is it broken if it does not work for you?

Rufus

> Chris
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 October 2011 07:54, Chris Wallace <kit.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > On another matter, I noticed a problem with getthedata (paging through
>> > the
>> > users)  and posted to the mailing list but nothing happened and its
>> > still a
>> > fault.  What are your plans for this site?  I have had a couple of chats
>>
>> Sorry we haven't got to that. We did a big upgrade of OSQA a few weeks
>> ago and it seems to have broken some things. We also are trying to
>> improve performance (we switched to fastcgi but this actually seems to
>> have made the front page slower (though other pages are faster!).
>>
>> > with Lucy about getting involved as an editor.
>>
>> Our plans are:
>>
>> a) to continue and improve the site
>> b) integrate it more closely with thedatahub.org
>>
>> We do need help to do this though :-) Would you be interested in
>> becoming not just an editor but an "admin" for the getthedata. We'd be
>> happy to provide relevant access, etc?
>>
>> Rufus
>
>



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