Just like we display download counts we should display view counts.

Translate all areas of metatdata to selected language. This includes finding datasets in all languages.

Multilingal Metadata: Tasks:

• Add translation table. 2d
• Api to add translation 3d
• Add extention point to dataset view. 3d
• Add extension point to search index to add translations. 2d.
• Add all eurovoc data to translations. 1d.
• Make multilingual solr schema 2d #1715

Many actions in the Action API require parameters. What params are needed should be listed and checked. Because currently, if you get them wrong you simply get a useless 500 error.

Currently they are listed in the docs, extracted from the code manually.

So you could GET /action/api/package_list to receive not only the help text, but a list of arguments.

And if you send an extra or missing argument then an intelligent error message can be returned.

implementation

How about some sort of decorator on the action function:

@logic_params(id, offset, limit)
def get_package_list(context, data_dict):
    ...

This would do the param checking, and is there a way to extract these params from the function? Or do a registration of the logic function?

I'd certainly like to keep the list of the list of params for the function with the function, for ease of reading the code.

Another good thing would be to pass in the params named as themselves, rather than having them contained in the data_dict.

Super #1669

Analysis of all permissions for users given their publishers to ensure that we have covered all of the bases and haven't missed any use-cases.

Group edit dataset add form needs some work

• Dataset name is not cleared when you add
• No way to remove item from list of datasets to be added if I make a mistake
• (2nd Apr 2012) It now seems that option to add multiple datasets at once has disappeared (perhaps during the CSS/HTML refactor ...)

I minified bootstrap and apparently downgraded the version. This breaks things in Recline, and creates weird discrepancies (DGU uses 2.0.2 and had some problems importing HTML from TheDataHub? core, for example.)

• Switch to the latest minifed CSS + JS
• QA-sweep the site, especially dataset/edit

• Make sure that the extension works as it should and isn't broken on current releases [3d]

• Make it work with the EC schema, including extras [2d]

A simple way for geocoding place names would be very useful, e.g in the spatial search, defining a geometry for a dataset (on the form or bulk)

• Get rid of jquery UI
  • Requires switching to bootstrap lookahead plus a small bit of coding for ajax part (see ​https://gist.github.com/2007241)
• Remove modernizr (what do we use it for?)
• Convert jquery.tmpl to jquery mustache (?)
• Remove ckanjs moving core parts of it directly into our code.

Compress everything for releases and add minified version to build (with switch to enable use of this?)

• Add Ascii folding filter to text fields.
• Add capacity field for public, private access.
• Add title_string so you can sort alphabetically on title.
• Fields related to analytics, access and view counts.
• Add data_dict field for the whole package_dict.

Actual implementation of data_dict adding will be added later.

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!)

Changes:

• tidy up activity feed on home page or replace with search results (by modified date)
• move ckan menu to a left sidebar (see Sam's template) (not doing this now)
• update templates with changes from master
• use local image in language dropdown (ecportal.js)
• update dataset read template

To discuss:

• should we rename 'organization' to 'publisher'? Requires updating all templates and the url mapping.

All writes to the API are captured and you are returned an error explaining the reason.

Possible errors:

• 503 temporary maintenance
• 403 forbidden (if server if permanently read-only)

Admin configures entering read-only mode in one of two places:

• CKAN config file (e.g. ckan.ini)
• environment variable from Apache config

Once enabled, no writes can occur to the database (including user ratings and other usage stats).

When a customer logs in as a sysadmin then he/she see all packages, including deleted and pending ones. These are hidden to the average user, but the sysadmin has no idea of this until he clicks on the package and sees at the bottom 'state: deleted'.

It should be more obvious than that on the search view - an icon, message or crossed-out name to packages are deleted.

When a package's name is changed, references to the old name (in the WUI and REST) are redirected to the new name (assuming the old name is not being reused by another package).

Broken out from ticket:216

We should try and move register_pluggable_behaviour into environment and out of routing as it is causing import issues when using simple search.

These functions already take a map and so they should be fine any time after the call to make_map

Provide configuration for reverse proxying that will correctly handle the mapping of a URL to a sub-folder (using X-SCRIPT-NAME)

• Analysis of the best solution [1d]

• Implement reverse proxying in tandem with #1653 [2d]

• Document and store the configuration files. [1d]

TD look at issues and then email ckan-dev

meeting notes from 21-3-2012 general ideas non specific

Problem:

• We want to remove the Transformer usage due to performance and its close tie to genshi
• Want a standard way for core code and extensions to put code into the templates where *templates request it* (templates control insertion rather than extensions ...)
• Stacking versus overwriting on entry points
  • Relationship to h.requires('jquery', version) - ​http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script

Options:

• placeholders or helper methods
• {{user _info}} {{sub_menu}} is this equivalent to <span class="insert-user-info"></span>
  • [xyz arguments] -> h.load_snippet('xyz', ...)
• ${h.snipit()}

The .ini file needs cleaning up in assorted ways which Toby will expand upon.

We should allow full text search within databases for individual databases, although we may want to wait for any pending ports to postgres.

• Do an analysis of why upgrades are problematic
• What can we do better
• Decide what to implement

Datasets listed in search results have not gone through schema validation (but on the user page they do), so package_list snippet currently has to display both 'notes' and 'description'.

We want a new way of working with trac tickets and milestones etc:

• We will have a single queue of tickets, ordered by priority, that we all work on

• Tickets only get into the queue after triaging (which the devs do at regular intervals), so we and others can use new trac tickets as a dumping ground for any and all CKAN bugs and ideas without messing up the priority queue. Therefore the priority queue needs to be a special CKAN milestone or something. The devs need to regularly go through the inbox of untriaged tickets and triage them all, moving them all out of the inbox.

• Will we also assign tickets from the priority queue to individual devs in sprint planning meetings like we currently do?

• the facet tags should only show free (non-vocab) tags
• decide on what fields to include in search facet list

Core CKAN currently has a dependency on LXML and it would be nice if we could remove it (although this *may* be indirectly through genshi).

Quite a few of the current test dataset resources have their format incorrectly specified as text/html. Attempting to preview these results in the browser trying to automatically download the resource, so for now we will not preview this format.

The following pages are missing complete breadcrumbs.

Add related page:

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/adur_district_spending/related/new

Needs to look like.

Dataset > {dataset_title} > Related > Create Related

Template here: ​https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/feature-2375-demo-theme/ckan/templates/related/pages/form_page.html#L6

Same deal with Edit related.

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/adur_district_spending/related/edit/5f9e665b-3e3c-428f-88b1-8554189cf14a

Needs to look like.

Dataset > {dataset_title} > Related > Edit Related

​https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/feature-2375-demo-theme/ckan/templates/related/edit.html#L5

See: ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/adur_district_spending/related/new

Submit the form to see broken formatting.

eg. [u'Missing value']

Percieved benefits of switching to Jinja 2

• Block inheritance for base templates which is much simpler to understand.
• Large number of developers (and designers) are familiar with it due to its similarities with the Django templates.
• Should be much faster at parsing and rendering templates.
• Has localisation support.
• Good documentation both on it's website and on sites like Stack Overflow.

We should convert a couple of existing templates to test the switchover and then get peoples feedback.

Discussion:

​https://okfn.basecamphq.com/projects/9558659-demo-ckan-front-end/posts/62998362/comments

Implementation:

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/en/user/register

Check that lists of strings are being correctly translated. See ​https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commit/f1d68c3d2d4d25a0c0f8a89a68940643fc19b156

Find all places where date, times and time periods are rendered as strings in CKAN. Make them all go through the same code path (e.g. the helper function in helpers.py) with localization support.

For example, on the user index page right now there are time period strings like "less than 1 month" that currently do not get translated (and the way they're implemented doesn't look i18n-friendly).

ISO date format everywhere might be a good idea.

Need to consider local timezone issues.

Python standard library and Babel may have useful helpers for this.

Should the local timezone displayed be a global setting per CKAN instance? Or should it change depending on the location of the user who is viewing the page?

There are a couple of strings on the authorization group add/edit form that are not being translated:

"Name: Please enter a value" (error message when you try to add an auth group with no name)

"User name"

"Save" button

The form seems to be built using FormBuilder?. See ckan/forms/authorizationgroup.py, builder.set_displayed_fields()

stacktrace

if not logged in then go to add dataset url the language is lost

check if this is a ckan 1.7 issue

Most important is {% snippet %} but {% url_for %} would be great too.

On the group read page ​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/group/nhs the add dataset button goes to the edit group page instead of the add dataset url.

It still contains the old build_search_index_synchronously which no longer works

If you change the language to one where the word for 'Search' is longer than the English word (e.g. fr) then the search button wraps onto the next line, below the text field, which looks bad.

Discussion:

​https://okfn.basecamphq.com/projects/9558659-demo-ckan-front-end/posts/61911712/comments

Implementation:

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/group

Discussion:

​https://okfn.basecamphq.com/projects/9558659-demo-ckan-front-end/posts/62935295/comments

Implementation:

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/en/user/reset

Discussion:

​https://okfn.basecamphq.com/projects/9558659-demo-ckan-front-end/posts/62821386/comments

Implementation:

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/adur_district_spending/related

Discussion:

​https://okfn.basecamphq.com/projects/9558659-demo-ckan-front-end/posts/61752357/comments

Implementation:

​http://s031.okserver.org:2375/dataset/adur_district_spending

See '### Task 2' in this etherpad: ​http://ckan.okfnpad.org/notifications

I have no idea yet about how to do this or how long it might take me.