CKAN: Ticket Query

#2699: workflow for associating datasets with groups

shevski — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:02:56 GMT

needs review & speccing out e.g. datasets created by a user who belongs to a certain publisher (group) get auto added to this group

#2780: way for admins to undelete datasets

shevski — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:20:48 GMT

Since admins can see deleted datasets - there should be a way for them a) to know they are currently deleted & not viewable by normal users - ticket: #2779 b) way to undelete such datasets - this ticket

I suggest a button on the edit form instead of the delete button i.e. remove normal delete button with 'deleted dataset, only admins can view' with undelete button next to the message?

#2869: user profile not linked on disqus until page refresh

shevski — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:58:34 GMT

Reported by Daniel:

Problem: DISQUS comments don't appear with profile details (inc. username). How to reproduce: 1) Go to a dataset, e.g. I went to http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/ff 2) I logged into DISQUS using the Google Authentication, e.g. in my case that is okfn.daniel.lewis@… 3) I made a comment and submitted 4) It comes up with the comment, but no linked profile until the page gets refreshed

#2644: user dashboard for demo theme

toby — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:00:21 GMT

we now have a user dashboard that needs theming not sure if we need sam to look at it

http://localhost:5000/user/dashboard

#1414: track user log-ins on thedatahub.org

shevski — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:13:02 GMT

Set up tracking for user logins so that we have stats about how many active users of thedatahub exist want to be able to see who logged in the the last x months

#2762: test_related.py crashes

seanh — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:55:53 GMT

/home/seanh/Projects/ckan/ckan/ckan/tests/functional/test_related.py

ImportError? (cannot import name assert_regexp_matches)

#2786: target blank HTML downloads

shevski — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:16:54 GMT

e.g. if I click on download here: http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/example-dataset/resource/d8797e51-b497-46ca-a274-8675533d110b can it take me to a new tab instead of navigating away from ckan?

#3027: solr for 2.0

kindly — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:22:09 GMT

change mm support solr 3 and 4 add *_date field

#2900: snippets/package_list.html template crashes on dataset that has no 'notes'

seanh — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:00:07 GMT

Sometimes a dataset dict comes through package_show() with 'notes': None and then the 'notes' key gets stripped from the dict when validation happens (validation only happens if there's an IDatasetForm plugin with a db_to_form_schema() method) and then package_list.html template crashes, e.g. on user profile pages.

Fix in the template? Or in the schema?

The template also crashes on packages with no tags (empty list gets stripped from dict) and probably other empty fields as well

#2673: simplify set of options for resources

rgrp — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:15:59 GMT

Far too many resource options. Lets restrict back to data file and API. Visualizations etc can either get linked in description or in the Related items.

#1201: seperate out logic in atom feeds to logic layer.

kindly — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:21:32 GMT

Simplify the logic in the atom feed an make all feeds use logic layer to return lists.

#2729: searching for tags:[tag] works but tag:[tag] doesn't

shevski — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:58:29 GMT

which is confusing since you can only search for one tag like this at a time. I.e. tags:economics,cvs or tags:economics, csv or tags:economics+CSV doesn't work for example; therefore tag:economics, should also work!

http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset?q=tags%3Aeconomics&sort=relevance+asc

#2896: resource_create crashes on ValidationErrors with KeyError: 'resources'

seanh — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:29:14 GMT

ckan/logic/action/create.py:resource_create():

try:

pkg_dict = _get_action('package_update')(context, pkg_dict)

except ValidationError?, e:

errors = e.error_dictresources?[-1] raise ValidationError?(errors)

This assumes that package_update always returns an error dict with 'resources' in it. This assumption doesn't hold.

#2823: resource additional info title order

toby — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:32:53 GMT

Order the items so that none user fields are first from ticket #2707

#1668: repoze version discrepency

dread — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:02:26 GMT

There's a discrepency in repoze.who versions between the source and package installs:

repoze.who - package 1.0.18 vs source 1.0.19
repoze.who-friendlyform - package 1.0b3 vs source 1.0.8

We get a test failure [1] with the 1.0b3 version (from the ubuntu 10.04 python-repoze.who-plugins package). But we've not noticed any problems on s057 instances (br, no, ie etc) which have the package versions of repoze.who.

The reason the package install uses the earlier packaged versions rather than the ones we'd like is that repoze uses all sorts of horrendous import hacks, making it too difficult to put into our 'ckan-conflict' source package.

James suggests we 'do something horrible like dynamically patch repoze on CKAN import'.

[1] http://buildbot.okfn.org/builders/builder-ckan/builds/1371/steps/shell/logs/stdio ERROR: ckan.tests.functional.test_user.TestUserController?.test_user_create_unicode

#2766: prevent draft datasets making it to activity stream

shevski — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:06:35 GMT

The new ckan creates datasets as part of a 3 phase process. To allow for this partially created datasets can have a state that is 'draft' or 'draft-complete'. These datasets should not be seen as active by the activity stream.

If we click 'add dataset' and then complete the first phase of adding a dataset then we end up having a activity stream created. When we add a resource in the next phase (add data) again an activity stream item xxx added resource to dataset is created

We do not want these adding. Essentially if a dataset has a state.startswith('draft') then we want the activity stream to ignore all actions involving it.

finally when the state is changed form state.startswith('draft') to state=='active' we want a xxx has created dataset ... to be added to the stream.

The best way to do this would be to branch from 2375-demo-theme-stable and get it to work there.

Let me know if you need any help with this ticket or a better explanation of the problem.

#2395: paster db clean/init don't work when spatial extension enabled

dread — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:16:33 GMT

If you have a spatial enabled database then if you don't disable the spatial extension in the CKAN config temporarily then you get errors when you run paster db clean and paster db init.

Can't you just modify the clean and init functions to run without extensions enabled?

The wider problem is that extensions do their own inits every time you do load_environment, which seems crazy and inefficient to me, since this occurs every time a request comes into CKAN. But that is another problem/ticket.

#1317: password reset - improve user search

dread — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:12:19 GMT

In password reset, it gets confused if you have two similar users. This is because with the string the user provides, it searches several fields, not just name but also fullname and email address, allowing you to search for these. But only name is unique.

Specific problem: Ira searches for "Irina" then it finds both: <User name=irina fullname=Irina email=irina.bolychevsky@okfn.org ] and <User name=shevski fullname=Ira email=> (I think)

Maybe need to choose which field it searches?

#2573: package_search does not allow solr's per-field facet parameters

icmurray — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:27:19 GMT

Solr allows its facet parameters to be specified on a per-field basis, eg. facet.limit applies to all facet fields, but solr allows it to be overriden for a specific field, eg. facet.tags.limit.

We don't support this at the moment because we have a whitelist of valid solr query parameters that we accept. See ckan.lib.search.query.VALID_SOLR_PARAMETERS.

#2768: normalise excel to xls

shevski — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:16:22 GMT

so that data proxy works

#2863: non-admin users can edit other's draft datasets

shevski — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:54:39 GMT

edit button shows up for daniel lewis for http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/ff

#2854: no way to see which dataset an app is related to on /apps page

shevski — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:38:48 GMT

e.g. from http://s031.okserver.org:2375/apps?page=1 you cannot edit a related item as an admin or view what dataset the item is related to

#2857: no UI to follow another user although option on dashboard

shevski — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:59:43 GMT

e.g. second option in left hand sidebar is follow another user' http://s031.okserver.org:2375/user/dashboard but if you click on that and then any user, there's no follow button

to me the dashboard user stuff is highly unfinished and probably should not be included unless someone is very keen for it

#2579: move sort_by functions into lib.helpers

toby — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:29:58 GMT

make these more available but keep existing functionality so not to break any users

remove_field()

drill_down_url()

etc

#2784: model dictize sensitive data

icmurray — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:51:25 GMT

The model dictize layer doesn't consistently remove sensitive data from the dictized models. It should use the current context to decide whether to include sensitive data or not.

#1606: metadata license config option

dread — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:45:30 GMT

Add a config option to choose the metadata licence. Set default to Open Database License.

Currently the dataset edit form says "Important: By submitting content, you agree to release your contributions under the Open Database License." This is hard-coded, but not suitable for when DGU uses the CKAN form - they use the OGL.

#2698: markdown preview

shevski — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:01:25 GMT

for description / other fields with markdown support

#2583: make sure that we implement authentication where needed

toby — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:04:38 GMT

in development many auth checks may have been lost we need to check they are still working etc

#2790: logic.action.user_show is slow

toby — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:21:23 GMT

This is a very slow call it would benefit from the sort of speed-ups that package-search received

for me locally this is taking 6 seconds for rufus using the datahub data I have. I think a lot of this is the dataset retrival/dictization

can we just grab json blobs from solr?

also is it possible to specify a sort order/paging?

I've put this as a demo-theme ticket as it is an big issue on the demo we are at 25 second page loads - which i can get down to about 8.8 secs so this is the main pain point now

#2282: log api calls for users

toby — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:18:45 GMT

This was part of #2251 but is now it's own ticket.

we need clarity on this. The use cases so far have been possible limiting api calls for users.

so we want to monitor the user or ip address

what about the api calls?

do we want to record all calls or just some? do we want to record the type of call and to what level of detail?

recording the url just seems to specific to me.

#2708: limit extra data for package/group show

toby — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:40:20 GMT

contextpackage_limits? = { 'tags': 5, <- get first 5

'extras': 0, <- get all

}

only get what you ask for have to be explicit

contextgroup_limits? = {} only main item

start with datasets/groups expand if we like it

#2952: incorporate javascriopt translations into translations workflow

icmurray — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:15:45 GMT

There are now javascript translations. There's a paster command, trans js. This is a ticket to ensure that using trans js is documented in the normal ckan translation workflow (which is followed after a feature freeze, prior to release). And to see if there's any need for further incorporation into the current translation process.

#2810: heroku ckan support

kindly — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:40:58 GMT

Get ckan working on heroku

#2663: h.resource_display_name needs love

toby — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:42:26 GMT

This function is shit and needs cleaning up and a doc string

description is markdown and should be treated properly

either we should truncate all or leave it to the templates but work universally

url if no name / desc this is in demo-theme branch

#2902: genshi is used in Group controller

ross — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:10:30 GMT

The Group controller uses the genshi module where it may be better for it to use Markup() in the template.

See https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/117/files#r1524863

#2758: file storage gives error if config not available but no useful user information

toby — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:28:29 GMT

We get an error which should be improved the actual problem is this but not passed to user

⇝ KeyError?: 'ofs.impl'

View as: Interactive (full) | Text (full) | XML (full) Module ckan.controllers.storage:2 in auth_form view Module ckan.lib.jsonp:26 in jsonpify view

data = func(*args, kwargs)

Module ckan.controllers.storage:407 in auth_form view

authorize(method, bucket, label, c.userobj, self.ofs)

Module ckan.controllers.storage:200 in ofs view

StorageAPIController._ofs_impl = get_ofs()

Module ckan.controllers.storage:71 in get_ofs view

storage_backend = configofs.impl?

Module paste.registry:146 in getitem view

return self._current_obj()[key]

KeyError?: 'ofs.impl'

#2543: facet.sort is not available in the package_search action

icmurray — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:55:35 GMT

Not all solr facet parameters are available through the pcakage_search action. In particular, facet.sort has been asked for; but this ticket should check to see if there are other parameters that would be easy to add too.

See: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters#facet.sort

#2686: enabling datastore & data API breaks recline

shevski — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:06:51 GMT

First I noticed that the gold prices dataset preview was not displaying & has data API enabled Secondly I tried enabling datastore for http://datahub.io/dataset/adur_district_spending/resource/281dffa6-ea9b-4446-be41-05dced06591f and after I saved the preview no longer worked. Unticking the datastore & data api checkbox brought it back

Is this a known issue?

#1447: disk space leakage

dread — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:54:03 GMT

Periodically we see some CKAN servers fall over because they run out of disk space. We need to find out if there is a common cause and fix it.

One problem in the past has been file handles running out when creating lots of tiny files in the data directory.

Another problem has been several enourmous backups being created every day - pdeu on eu25.

#2721: deleted groups should not show on 'Add to Groups' dropdown

shevski — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:17:12 GMT

Groups previously deleted still show up in the add dataset process in step 3 'Additional info'

http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/new_metadata/ff

#2728: deleted group shows on search index - for admins

shevski — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:53:04 GMT

'test-group', which has been deleted,shows up on main search page under groups - and can be filtered by - see http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset?groups=test-group

#1544: delete old git branches

dread — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:10:10 GMT

We have 150 odd branches (git branch -a) - most of them old - we should prune them. At very least, branches that have been merged in should be deleted. Look at old branches that haven't been merged in and wonder why.

May be of some use:

git branch --merged
git branch --no-merged

#2815: db_to_form_package_schema() strips tracking summary, isopen

seanh — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:47:07 GMT

If an IDatasetForm plugin with a db_to_form_schema() based on db_to_form_package_schema() (which is in turn based on default_package_schema()) is in use then the 'tracking_summary' dict and the 'isopen' bool get stripped from package dicts during validation, e.g. during package_show(), and these values are then not available to templates.

#2897: db_to_form_package_schema() crashes historical dataset page

seanh — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:41:35 GMT

If there's an IDatasetForm plugin active with a db_to_form_schema() method based on db_to_form_package_schema(), then viewing historical versions of datasets (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:5000/dataset/dasd%402012-08-30T12%3A26%3A18.524191) crashes.

Reason is that revison_id and revision_timestamp need to be added to db_to_form_package_schema(), something like:

schema.update({'revision_id': [validators.ignore_missing, unicode]}) schema.update({'revision_timestamp':

[validators.ignore_missing, unicode]})

#1832: dataset purge API

dread — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:02:25 GMT

Purging datasets (deleting them fully, not just changing the state to 'deleted') is important for users testing dataset creation over the API on a test CKAN instance.

Without this, they need to resort to more difficult methods such as:

cleaning and reloading the database
setting the test datasets to state 'deleted' and also appending a suffix '_00' and incrementing the number until there is no clash of names.

Requested for NHSIC.

Implementation

This could slot into the Action API.
Of course we would need to ensure the user's had been given the specific right to purge.
I suggest we log the full details of the dataset being purged.

#2326: dataset permalinks

toby — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:39:06 GMT

create permalinks

eg \dataset\~a5-DQ\nice-name

~XXXXX defines the permalink the nice-name is ignored

packages table needs a new field for this data

existing datasets need updating

new datasets need the identifier creating

routing needs updating

needs to work for all urls like edit

Once this is implemented we can decide when we will use permalinks vs the normal urls.

#3012: data.gov auth

toby — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:50:09 GMT

#2697: create dataset validation

shevski — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:00:35 GMT

Includes: missing fields, existing field checks (i.e. whether a name/dataset already exists with that name) during input (i.e. no need to submit form to check)

#2726: confusing logic on data preview formats

shevski — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:38:47 GMT

If a user enters the wrong format on a file that can be previewed - it simply won't be previewed (e.g. a CSV or XML file that can be filled in with JSON in format will just not work or check this

If I incorrectly edit format to one that data preview will try to preview it will work even for a format that it doesn't accept (sometimes) e.g. this PDF file I changed the metadata to HTML http://s031.okserver.org:2375/en/dataset/test-dataset/resource/9d27a9d9-36ec-460e-9edb-6dff7ba4fc28

#3013: common-error-messages is unreadable

dominik — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:18:25 GMT

Since the update of the doc theme, the page became unreadable.

http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/common-error-messages.html

#2257: cleanup template vars

toby — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:35:07 GMT

look at reducing what is pulled into templates eg ckan.lib.helpers ensure that these changes don't break existing extensions etc

#2572: clean up stats plugin

toby — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:24:14 GMT

attempt to disengage the stats plugin from core as much as possible

#3030: clean up helper functions

toby — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:33:58 GMT

#2244: clean up auth

toby — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:22:51 GMT

cache admins etc
aim to move check_access so independent of logic function
general spruce up

#2912: ckanext/organizations: Neither public or private initially selected when adding dataset

seanh — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:57:56 GMT

When adding a dataset with the organizations extension on, neither the Public or the Private radio button is initially selected. Public should be selected.

#2751: check translations for full demo site

toby — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:40:43 GMT

need to check everything gets translated - sean did this before so will have info

#2718: can't add dataset to more than one group

shevski — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:35:50 GMT

trying to add a dataset to another group means it's no longer part of the first group

http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/edit/afterfibre

#2777: bug: user attributes

icmurray — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:19:23 GMT

#1647: add links to ckan discuss & dev to thedatahub

shevski — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:30:52 GMT

In the footer as well as more clearly & directly on the About page

#2748: add 'add new resource' button to sidebar

shevski — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:41:18 GMT

When editing a resource you see the current and any other existing resources in sidebar

(e.g. see http://s031.okserver.org:2375/en/dataset/format-error-test/resource_edit/d1eac556-c16f-44af-8148-5e3467b57cf8?inner_span=True)

Would be good to have a pretty 'add new' slightly transparent resource folder/pointer undearneath - letting you add resources from the end resource page

#1343: [super] User related improvements (login, user pages etc)

rgrp — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:18:18 GMT

Disallow account creation via openid - #1386
Require email field - #1319
- Require email confirmation to be activated (?)
Improvements to user page (e.g. show activity and more info about user) - #1396
Modal user login - #1311

#1717: [super] Search UX improvements

shevski — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:53:01 GMT

Make it possible to search by tag (e.g. by typing tag:csv into the search bar and clicking enter, it should add the 'csv' tag facet to the search)

Rename and standardise the list of format tags, on search page this should also be called 'Format' instead of 'res_format' (in the right hand side bar on search page).

Make it possible to view full list of tags, formats and groups by clicking on the name. From here you should be table to click on a classification and go back to a search page faceted by that classification. E.g. from search page, click on 'tags', on tag page click on 'london' or whatever, and be navigated back to search page with search within 'london' tag only. Or y'know, a better way of doing it.

More standard classifications, such as 'Location' and 'Theme' - like on publicdata.eu

Blue search button should be displayed in line with the search bar, not underneath

Datasets should be displayed in order of most viewed or downloaded instead of alphabetically. For alphabetic search we could consider adding a way to facet by first letter of dataset name

#1235: [super] Search Improvements

thejimmyg — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:24:01 GMT

Child tickets:

#234 UI Review - Autocomplete package names & tags in search
#193 Searching by time-related field
#191 Searching by modification date
#905 Unable to search with accented characters in package names
#906 Ability to search without accents for accented words
#924 Search box has no search button

Broadly speaking though we need to choose PostgreSQL, Solr or something else. We don't want to invest our time maintaining two search backends with a limited abstraction layer between the two.

#1578: [super] Re-enable and refactor ratings

rgrp — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:20:43 GMT

#1571: [super] Issues Extension

jilly mathews — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:30:25 GMT

"Proper" issues extension.

Etherpad: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/issues
Code: https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-issues

Overview

This would be an extension and improvement of existing todo extension - #842 (https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-issues)
- Current extension does work but lacks polish
- Should we polish or do significant improvements?
Functionality - see etherpad

Steps

~~(Rename todo(s) -> issue(s) in existing extension)~~

#1232: [super] Interface improvements

thejimmyg — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:11:36 GMT

Child tickets:

#1194 "Welcome back" message for newly registered user
#1202 Links to datapkg utility don't lead to info about it
#925 Change the search box icon to remove the down arrow
#923 Search box doesn't work in leaderboard page in stats extension
#1034 Flash message cached
#737 Markdown syntax summary page
#811 Extra field editing form layout breaks when there are long field names

#1233: [super] Improve wiki-style functionality for history

thejimmyg — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:29:52 GMT

At the moment we have a good revisioning system but a poor history interface. We need to improve this in a number of areas:

#191 Searching by modification date
#193 Searching by time-related field
#301 Package discussion pages
#1236 Package history page should provide links to pages at particular revisions, similar to the wikipedia pages
#1236 Viewing old revisions or unmoderated changes should have a message at the top of the package page
Other improvements as per my word doc.

#1787: [super] Improve RESTful API

dread — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:54:42 GMT

Lists of entities should be full URLs, rather than just the names
Discoverability - /api/v3/rest should list the entity types that can be listed

This could be v3 of the RESTful interface.

#1432: [super] Data processing system for CKAN and Webstore

rgrp — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:19:07 GMT

Super ticket: #1190

A data processing system which utilizes the Webstore. One could get a long way with simple javascript running in the browser for development with this javascript then run offline using something like nodejs. Alternatively one could allow one to specify a url to e.g. a python file which would then be run in a sandbox (with access to some specified set of python modules)

#1096: [super] CKAN Hosted

pudo — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:44:22 GMT

Many users of CKAN want to have their own instance without much effort. Setting these up in separate places is a maintenance nightmare, we should much rather have some tenant separation in core CKAN. Some ideas:

introduce model.Site and c.site
- site has: custom CSS, extra_template_path, title, languages list, package_form, group_form (all configured via web UI)
Subdomain detector to activate sites.
use site in Authorizer instead of System, have a NullSite? for global things
allow cross-site search
packages are in a list of sites, m:n rather than 1:n
- list of sites is string-based, can contain sites not in site table to express harvested external material which is not editable locally.

#1240: [super] API v4

rgrp — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:41:00 GMT

(Just creating this ticket as somewhere to keep notes)

Decide on REST api versus action API
- Do we want to support both?
Tidying
- Unify on /api/v{version num}/... structure (do we want a default option that points to current default? e.g. /api/default/ ...)
- extras merged into normal field list in package
- Get rid of /rest/ so just have api/v1/package
- Get rid of separation of search api from 'rest' api
  - Propose that GET on REST index is search e.g. /package/?q=...
    - This is also resolves issue whereby GET at root returns whole package set (a *bad* idea) as this would now become the matchall search query (with a default limit on items returned)
Resource read/write in API (separate from package)
- Does this need authorization work?
user/account API - read/write
Remove autocomplete -- can just use search
- Do not worry about backwards compat as should only be used in our js (if others using it too bad!)

#2906: Wrong flags in language dropdown

dominik — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:05:44 GMT

The flags in the dropdown on details pages are not right.

You can see the error on http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/malawi-aid-projects/resource/b717c20e-2006-4ad4-82d2-59b57ebc1ab0.

#1661: Wrong Routes version installed by CKAN package

dread — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:47:41 GMT

Jaakko Louhio reported that the wrong Routes version got installed during CKAN's package install.

He is using Ubuntu 10.04 and he believes it install Routes 1.12.3 instead of what we use which is 1.11.

#2279: Write tutorial for our DataStore API / Data Explorer

rgrp — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:44:23 GMT

Unfortunately ES is a little bit complex / opaque to newcomers. Need to write a simple tutorial walking through this.

This is documentation / example only (no code!)

#1326: Write a set of auth plugin functions to integrate with Druapl

thejimmyg — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:51:24 GMT

Ticket #787 described join auth between CKAN and Drupal. The authentication part is live and implemented. This ticket is a placeholder for work that will be needed in the new auth system to link authorization functions to Drupal. It is dependent on the groups refactor.

#2234: Write a CKAN extension for pulling items from RSS/Atom feeds into CKAN templates

seanh — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:59:15 GMT

You configure the extension with some RSS and/or Atom feeds, it automatically reads items from these feeds and makes them available in the template context, you write a custom template to e.g. display 'news' items from a Wordpress blog on your front page.

This extension might be simpler and less fragile than ckanext-wordpresser, and also more generally useful.

Details

Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser might be useful for reading the feeds

Feed items should probably be cached somewhere

Suggested

The news item 'widget' should be wrapped in a known class so that it can be styled easily regardless of the format of any HTML entry.

For non-HTML formatted items (Atom should tell you the content type of the entry) maybe we should have a template for rendering each item along with any enclosures that it might reference

Caching is pretty crucial and should probably obey the ttl of the feed.

#1569: Wordpressser

jilly mathews — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:27:36 GMT

How much effort will this be to be ready to use?

#2934: Webtests for CKAN

Dominik — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:10:47 GMT

The tests in CKAN only test single pages (functional tests) or single methods (unit tests). In order to make sure that the whole system still works as expected, we need tests that cover whole processes.

An example user story to be tested would be: "As a user with create permissions I want to be able to log in, create a new resource, save it and then make sure that it is in the system." or: "As a user I want to use the search functionality and open a resource from the search page."

These user stories require a different testing system with interaction and processes.

#2550: User types

ross — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:06:30 GMT

Requirements

In the data hub plugin we require the ability to differentiate users between those that have paid for a service, and those that haven't. The distinction isn't boolean as there may be levels of service for paid users, so it may be that we need a 'type' of user where there are various grades of 'paid' which are likely to be strings (specific to the data hub).

Required interface

Once changes have been made to the user schema, for a given user we want to be able to:

determine if they have a paid or a free account, and
get a string name of the type of paid account.

Care should be taken to ensure that the 'paid' status of the user cannot be set through the API and only by the datahub plugin.

User Stories

User stories related to the management, setting and changing of a user's payment level, as well as historical information on payments should be done as part of the work that includes actually allowing purchases. For now it is adequate that we can manually control these things through paster commands.

Payments types should be linear as I don't believe for this type of service a pick-and-mix modular model would work well. Organizations will inherit the payment level of their owner, so currently there is no requirement for it to affect organizations at all.

As a sysadmin I would like to be able to use a paster command to manually set a user's payment level, or remove it entirely.

As a sysadmin I would like to be able to run a paster command to view a list of users who have a payment plan, grouped by the plan that they have.

As a sysadmin I would like to be able to use the API to change the payment status of a specific user through user_create and user_update. This shouldn't be available to anybody else.

As a user, and only if I have one, I'd like to see my current payment level on my user profile page.

Tasks

[x] Tests

[x] Plugin based migration

[x] Code

[x] Model

[x] API

[x] Documentation

Estimates

#2909: User profile headers are a bit weird

johnmartin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:35:48 GMT

They seem to be not exactly well thought out. Needs some thought on better display of the information that they contain.

#2910: User listings are not very compelling

johnmartin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:39:47 GMT

They are currently are just a small image / name. They should be: Larger image, Full name (username), description, edits/dataset

#2321: Use resource names/titles in URLs

rgrp — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:00:12 GMT

Would make them much nicer but requires:

Ensure uniqueness (or deal with ambiguity)
(?) Slug/names versus titles
- Aside: what is currently called name should probably be title

#1352: Use logic functions instead of as_dict when indexing entities

amercader — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:29:57 GMT

The current search implementation uses the output of the the as_dict method of the domain Package object to update the index

https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/src/56c79e3fc44c/ckan/lib/search/index.py#cl-48

It also uses package_to_api1 in the SynchronousSearch? plugin:

https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/src/f9dfb0506594/ckan/lib/search/__init__.py#cl-93

This prevents extensions from being able to index custom properties (e.g. faceting by custom extras not included in the model).

The search should use the logic function to get the package properties:

get_action('package_show')(context,data_dict)

#370: Use better email encryption for author_email and maintainer_email

shudson@… — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:03:39 GMT

The JavaScript? email encryption used is not very reassuring. Google's MailHide? is a much better solution that is easily implemented.

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/

Check on the Mailhide API where there are even some Python libraries already built.

#2958: Uploading files with unicode characters in filename fails in CKAN 1.7 and 1.8

seanh — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:29:36 GMT

e.g. 2012_08(주요국가).xls

I tested in CKAN 2.0 and it seemed to work fine there.

#2475: Upgrade trac.ckan.org to trac 0.12.3

seanh — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:46:16 GMT

This is not trivial, requires a database upgrade. But 0.12.3 has some nice new features (multiple vcs repository support, ticket comment editing and nicer preview) and the latest spam filter plugin requires 0.12.

http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/ChangeLog

#2936: Updating a group via the API clears its packages

seanh — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:47:46 GMT

If the group dict that you post to the API does not have any 'packages' key then all the group's packages get removed. I think it would be better if you could just update e.g. the group's description without having to also post the list of packages, and apparently this is how other update API actions work.

Might be worth checking all the update API actions for this behaviour, and making sure they're all consistent

#3006: Update translations from Transifex

seanh — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:22:24 GMT

There are some new translations already on the CKAN 1.8 resource on Transifex already (e.g. 100% Norwegian translation I think). We should at least pull these from Transifex for 1.8.1, and may as well do a call for translations too.

#2933: Update theming docs

seanh — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:21:12 GMT

There's quite a lot of custom stuff going on, with all the custom jinja extensions, and the use of Fanstatic plus custom fanstatic extensions. People who are new to CKAN wanting to write CKAN themes are likely to be confused. I think the whole lot could do with documentation, maybe in the Theming and Customizing chapter in the sphinx docs.

I suggest completely replacing the contents of doc/theming.rst, and putting a 'legacy theming' link at the bottom linking to a doc/legacy_theming.rst file with the old contents.

#2891: Update or remove DataStore google presentation

seanh — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:23:43 GMT

Currently this page:

http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.8/datastore.html

has an embedded Google docs presentation about data store which contains some outdated information, e.g. links to datastoreclient which was merged into ckanclient.

Suggest moving the google presentation into the documentation proper, so it works with grep etc.

#3020: Update CKAN coding standards

seanh — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:11:51 GMT

#2335: Unicode characters don't work in CKAN ini files

seanh — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:42:06 GMT

You get a UnicodeDecodeError?, looks like it tries to decode the ini file as ascii. This is a problem because someone might try to set their site description to something with an umlaut in it, for example.

#1328: Unicode & paster commands

minspamboks@… — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:25:10 GMT

A possible bug in CKAN when I tried deleting users using "paster --plugin=ckan user delete" command.

To reproduce the bug do the following:

Create a user with an ID (which in my case was a user's full name)

that contains non-unicode caracters like Norwegian "æ", "ø", or "å".

Make sure that you can see something like the example below:

(pyenv) rm@mycomputer:$ paster --plugin=ckan user Users: name=Rustæm

Then try deleting the user with following command:

(pyenv) rm@mycomputer:$ paster --plugin=ckan user delete "Rustæm"

You should now get a python encoding error. I know that this is quite rare case, but in our case it caused some trouble. Could you guys have a look at this bug?

CKAN ver. 1.3.3.

#2294: Unauthorized action on Data API gets 302 rather than 401 or similar

rgrp — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:35:04 GMT

Well known issue that 401 *in API* end up with 302 redirect to login page (which makes no sense and is very confusing for clients).

Fix this by ensuring that error messsages on API get passed through correctly.

Minor because affect is annoying but not terminal

#2268: UKLP Use same schema as form for harvested records

amercader — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:56:46 GMT

Datasets created via the harvesting (UKLP ones) and the ones created via the form use a different schema. That could lead to problems. We need to discuss the best approach.

#2654: UI support for ordering groups on group_read page

ross — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:11:31 GMT

The group_index page has no support in WUI for ordering the groups displayed. Should allow sorting by name

Add support for this for datahub now, and discuss for new 1.9 UI

#2988: UI functional tests for CKAN 2.0

seanh — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:02:15 GMT

Afaik the new CKAN 2.0 frontend has no functional tests

#653: Trackback links for packages

dread — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:40:25 GMT

When people link to a package, a track-back link is auto-created. (Similar system as for blogs).

As suggested by Tim Davies:

Allowing some form of ‘track back’ against datasets When a non-technical user comes to look at a dataset it would be really useful for them to be able to see if anyone has created an interface interpretation of it already.

I found quite a few cases in research of end-users struggling to make sense of a dataset when good interfaces to that data had already been built and blogged about, but without there being any link from the dataset listing to those data uses. Accepting track backs could also make it easier for technical users to find blog posts / shared code etc. relating to a given dataset.

#2431: Trac git integration

seanh — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:58:48 GMT

#1561: To do extension

jilly mathews — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:52:52 GMT

Can we finish this ready for release on data hub and CKAN Hosted.