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Reported by dread, 3 years ago.

Data importers should use API instead of object model directly:

• saves load on server
• much better error checking and authentication
• eating our own dogfood (tests the API well)

Reported by dread, 3 years ago.

It's not good to have ckanext doing lots of different things with different dependencies. Split it off into:

• ckanext-importlib

etc.

And then deprecate the ckanext repo itself.

Reported by dread, 2 years ago.

We want to make email announcements to users of thedatahub.org.

The most simple way to do this is to get a dump of the email addresses and subscribe/invite them to a mailman list.

Different ways to do it:

• 'paster dump-users-csv' creates a CSV file. Apache serves up the directory using password protection. Is this secure enough?
• CKAN admin pages provides a button to produce the CSV and download it. A config option may be necessary to enable this (disabled by default).

Something more advanced in the future could be:

• CKAN tells mailman about new subscribers using the mailman web interface. Could be brittle.
• Mailman doesn't have an Internet API, but it does have a python interface. So CKAN could tell mailman about new subscribers using a python proxy. There may be one out there, or maybe easy to do. But annoying to have to maintain another process running on machine.
• CKAN sends out the emails itself. A sysadmin is given a form. Users have an opt in/out option in their account. But receiving emails is a sensitive thing so it would need to be right first time, and there are several risks to this approach.