To reproduce:

1. paster db init
2. paster create-test-data
3. In Web UI: create new group 'tilo', which includes package 'annakarenina'
4. curl http://localhost:5000/api/search/package?groups=tilo results in 0 results (WRONG)
5. paster search-index rebuild
6. curl http://localhost:5000/api/search/package?groups=tilo results in 1 result

DSPL, the Dataset Publishing Language, is being promoted by Google for its "Google Public Data Explorer" system. It is an XML format with metadata.

The format is described on the ​developer docs ofthe Google Code site.

Google provides a ​Python script which reads CSV data and generates DSPL

Sample from ​http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/docs/dspl_sample.html:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dspl xmlns="http://schemas.google.com/dspl/2010"
    xmlns:geo="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/geo"
    xmlns:geo_usa="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/geo/us"
    xmlns:time="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/time"
    xmlns:quantity="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/quantity"
    xmlns:entity="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/entity">

  <import namespace="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/time"/>
  <import namespace="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/quantity"/>
  <import namespace="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/entity"/>
  <import namespace="http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/geo"/>
  
  <info>
    <name>
      <value>My statistics</value>
    </name>
    <description>
      <value>Some very interesting statistics about countries</value>
    </description>
    <url>
      <value>http://www.stats-bureau.com/mystats/info.html</value>
    </url>
  </info>

  <provider>
    <name>
      <value>Bureau of Statistics</value>
    </name>
    <url>
      <value>http://www.stats-bureau.com</value>
    </url>
  </provider>

  <topics>
    <topic id="geography">
      <info>
        <name><value>Geography</value></name>
      </info>
    </topic>
    <topic id="social_indicators">
      <info>
        <name><value>Social indicators</value></name>
      </info>
      <topic id="population_indicators">
        <info>
          <name><value>Population indicators</value></name>
        </info>
      </topic>
      <topic id="poverty_and_income">
        <info>
          <name><value>Poverty & income</value></name>
        </info>
      </topic>
      <topic id="health">
        <info>
          <name><value>Health</value></name>
        </info>
      </topic>
    </topic>
  </topics>

  <concepts>
    <!-- As noted in the tutorial, this concept should extend quantity:amount.-->
    <concept id="population">
      <info>
        <name>
          <value>Population</value>
        </name>
        <description>
          <value>Size of the resident population.</value>
        </description>
      </info>
      <topic ref="population_indicators"/>
      <type ref="integer"/>
    </concept>

    <!-- This country concept is defined for educational purposes only. A country
    concept exists in the Google geo dataset. See:

    http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/docs/canonical/geo.html --> 
    <concept id="country" extends="geo:location">
      <info>
        <name>
          <value>Country</value>
        </name>
        <description>
          <value>My list of countries</value>
        </description>
      </info>
      <type ref="string"/>
      <property id="name">
        <info>
          <name><value xml:lang="en">Country name</value></name>
          <description>
            <value xml:lang="en">The official name of the country</value>
          </description>
        </info>
        <type ref="string"/>
      </property>
      <table ref="countries_table"/>
    </concept>

    <!-- This US state concept is defined for educational purposes only. A US state
      concept exists in the Google geo US dataset. See:

      http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/docs/canonical/geo.us.html --> 
    <concept id="state" extends="geo:location">
      <info>
        <name>
          <value>State</value>
        </name>
        <description>
          <value>US states</value>
        </description>
      </info>
      <type ref="string"/>
      <property concept="country" isParent="true"/>
      <table ref="states_table"/>
    </concept>

    <concept id="gender" extends="entity:entity">
      <info>
          <name>
          <value>Gender</value>
        </name>
        <description>
          <value>Gender, Male or Female</value>
        </description>
        <pluralName><value>Genders</value></pluralName>
        <totalName><value>Both genders</value></totalName>
      </info>
      <type ref="string"/>
      <table ref="genders_table"/>
    </concept>

    <concept id="unemployment_rate" extends="quantity:rate">
      <info>
        <name>
          <value>unemployment rate</value>
        </name>
        <description>
          <value>The percent of the labor force that is unemployed, not seasonally
            adjusted.</value>
        </description>
        <url><value>http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm</value></url>
      </info>
      <topic ref="social_indicators"/>
      <type ref="float"/>
      <attribute id="is_percentage">
        <type ref="boolean"/>
        <value>true</value>
      </attribute>
    </concept>

  </concepts>

  <slices>
    <slice id="countries_slice">
      <dimension concept="country"/>
      <dimension concept="time:year"/>
      <metric concept="population"/>
      <table ref="countries_slice_table"/>
    </slice>

    <slice id="states_slice">
      <dimension concept="state"/>
      <dimension concept="time:year"/>
      <metric concept="population"/>
      <metric concept="unemployment_rate"/>
      <table ref="states_slice_table"/>
    </slice>

    <slice id="countries_gender_slice">
      <dimension concept="country"/>
      <dimension concept="gender"/>
      <dimension concept="time:year"/>
      <metric concept="population"/>
      <table ref="countries_gender_slice_table"/>
    </slice>

  </slices>

  <tables>
    <table id="countries_table">
      <column id="country" type="string"/>
      <column id="name" type="string"/>
      <column id="latitude" type="float"/>
      <column id="longitude" type="float"/>
      <data>
        <file format="csv" encoding="utf-8">countries.csv</file>
      </data>
    </table>

    <table id="countries_slice_table">
      <column id="country" type="string"/>
      <column id="year" type="date" format="yyyy"/>
      <column id="population" type="integer"/>
      <data>
        <file format="csv" encoding="utf-8">country_slice.csv</file>
      </data>
    </table>

    <table id="states_table">
      <column id="state" type="string"/>
      <column id="name" type="string"/>
      <column id="country" type="string">
        <value>US</value>
      </column>
      <column id="latitude" type="float"/>
      <column id="longitude" type="float"/>
      <data>
        <file format="csv" encoding="utf-8">states.csv</file>
      </data>
    </table>

    <table id="states_slice_table">
      <column id="state" type="string"/>
      <column id="year" type="date" format="yyyy"/>
      <column id="population" type="integer"/>
      <column id="unemployment_rate" type="float"/>
      <data>
        <file format="csv" encoding="utf-8">state_slice.csv</file>
      </data>
    </table>

    <table id="genders_table">
      <column id="gender" type="string"/>
      <column id="name" type="string"/>
      <data>
        <file format="csv" encoding="utf-8">genders.csv</file>
      </data>
    </table>

    <table id="countries_gender_slice_table">
      <column id="country" type="string"/>
      <column id="gender" type="string"/>
      <column id="year" type="date" format="yyyy"/>
      <column id="population" type="integer"/>
      <data>
        <file format="csv" encoding="utf-8">gender_country_slice.csv</file>
      </data>
    </table>
  </tables>

</dspl>

Currently, each ckan site needs its own ckan wsgi process. That eats a lot of resources where many ckan sites are served from one machine (e.g. eu3).

That would dramatically change if a ckan process could behave like multiple ckans (e.g. like Apache's "<VirtualHost?>", or tracd). Depending on the "Host:" header in the HTTP1.1 request, it would choose which local ckan ini file to obey.

I see two ways to constitute the map hostname-to-ini-file map:

• ckan reads a set of ini files, and each ini file declares which servers names it is responsible for
• In a global ini file, there are directives mapping servernames to ini files.

In either case there should be a global ckan ini having the default settings for all local ckan sites. Each site ini could be very short then, just having e.g. title, name, database credentials, active plugins etc.

Hello,

I have done a recent update to mu ckan install, and I am now getting this error for all my packages:

URL: http://ckan.emap.fgv.br/package/dengue-net
Module weberror.errormiddleware:162 in __call__
<<              __traceback_supplement__ = Supplement, self, environ
                   sr_checker = ResponseStartChecker(start_response)
                   app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
                   return self.make_catching_iter(app_iter, environ, sr_checker)
               except:
>>  app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
Module beaker.middleware:73 in __call__
<<                                                     self.cache_manager)
               environ[self.environ_key] = self.cache_manager
               return self.app(environ, start_response)
>>  return self.app(environ, start_response)
Module beaker.middleware:152 in __call__
<<                          headers.append(('Set-cookie', cookie))
                   return start_response(status, headers, exc_info)
               return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
          
           def _get_session(self):
>>  return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
Module routes.middleware:130 in __call__
<<                  environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'][:-1]
              
               response = self.app(environ, start_response)
              
               # Wrapped in try as in rare cases the attribute will be gone already
>>  response = self.app(environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:125 in __call__
<<         
               controller = self.resolve(environ, start_response)
               response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
              
               if 'paste.testing_variables' in environ and hasattr(response,
>>  response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:324 in dispatch
<<          if log_debug:
                   log.debug("Calling controller class with WSGI interface")
               return controller(environ, start_response)
          
           def load_test_env(self, environ):
>>  return controller(environ, start_response)
Module ckan.lib.base:118 in __call__
<<          # available in environ['pylons.routes_dict']   
               try:
                   return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
               finally:
                   model.Session.remove()
>>  return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.controllers.core:221 in __call__
<<                  return response(environ, self.start_response)
              
               response = self._dispatch_call()
               if not start_response_called:
                   self.start_response = start_response
>>  response = self._dispatch_call()
Module pylons.controllers.core:172 in _dispatch_call
<<              req.environ['pylons.action_method'] = func
                  
                   response = self._inspect_call(func)
               else:
                   if log_debug:
>>  response = self._inspect_call(func)
Module pylons.controllers.core:107 in _inspect_call
<<                        func.__name__, args)
               try:
                   result = self._perform_call(func, args)
               except HTTPException, httpe:
                   if log_debug:
>>  result = self._perform_call(func, args)
Module pylons.controllers.core:60 in _perform_call
<<          """Hide the traceback for everything above this method"""
               __traceback_hide__ = 'before_and_this'
               return func(**args)
          
           def _inspect_call(self, func):
>>  return func(**args)
Module ?:2 in read
Module ckan.lib.cache:167 in wrapper
<<      log = __import__("logging").getLogger("proxy_cache")
           def wrapper(func, *args, **kwargs):
               result = func(*args, **kwargs)
      
               pylons = get_pylons(args)
>>  result = func(*args, **kwargs)
Module ckan.controllers.package:208 in read
<<          #render the package
               PackageSaver().render_package(c.pkg)
               return render('package/read.html')
      
           def comments(self, id):
>>  return render('package/read.html')
Module ckan.lib.base:74 in render
<<     
           return cached_template(template_name, render_template, cache_key=cache_key,
                                  cache_type=cache_type, cache_expire=cache_expire)
                                  #, ns_options=('method'), method=method)
>>  cache_type=cache_type, cache_expire=cache_expire)
Module pylons.templating:249 in cached_template
<<          return content
           else:
               return render_func()
>>  return render_func()
Module ckan.lib.base:63 in render_template
<<              stream = item.filter(stream)
              
               return literal(stream.render(method=method, encoding=None))
          
           if 'Pragma' in response.headers:
>>  return literal(stream.render(method=method, encoding=None))
Module genshi.core:183 in render
<<              method = self.serializer or 'xml'
               generator = self.serialize(method=method, **kwargs)
               return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding, out=out)
      
           def select(self, path, namespaces=None, variables=None):
>>  return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding, out=out)
Module genshi.output:57 in encode
<<          _encode = lambda string: string
           if out is None:
               return _encode(''.join(list(iterator)))
           for chunk in iterator:
               out.write(_encode(chunk))
>>  return _encode(''.join(list(iterator)))
Module genshi.output:339 in __call__
<<          for filter_ in self.filters:
                   stream = filter_(stream)
               for kind, data, pos in stream:
                   cached = cache_get((kind, data))
                   if cached is not None:
>>  for kind, data, pos in stream:
Module genshi.output:670 in __call__
<<          _gen_prefix = _gen_prefix().next
      
               for kind, data, pos in stream:
                   output = cache_get((kind, data))
                   if output is not None:
>>  for kind, data, pos in stream:
Module genshi.output:771 in __call__
<<          push_text = textbuf.append
               pop_text = textbuf.pop
               for kind, data, pos in chain(stream, [(None, None, None)]):
      
                   if kind is TEXT:
>>  for kind, data, pos in chain(stream, [(None, None, None)]):
Module genshi.output:586 in __call__
<<      def __call__(self, stream):
               prev = (None, None, None)
               for ev in stream:
                   if prev[0] is START:
                       if ev[0] is END:
>>  for ev in stream:
Module genshi.core:288 in _ensure
<<      # unchanged
           yield event
           for event in stream:
               yield event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.template.base:618 in _include
<<                      tmpl = self.loader.load(href, relative_to=event[2][0],
                                                   cls=cls or self.__class__)
                           for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
                               yield event
                       except TemplateNotFound:
>>  for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
Module genshi.template.base:618 in _include
<<                      tmpl = self.loader.load(href, relative_to=event[2][0],
                                                   cls=cls or self.__class__)
                           for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
                               yield event
                       except TemplateNotFound:
>>  for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
Module genshi.template.base:618 in _include
<<                      tmpl = self.loader.load(href, relative_to=event[2][0],
                                                   cls=cls or self.__class__)
                           for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
                               yield event
                       except TemplateNotFound:
>>  for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
Module genshi.template.base:605 in _include
<<          from genshi.template.loader import TemplateNotFound
      
               for event in stream:
                   if event[0] is INCLUDE:
                       href, cls, fallback = event[1]
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.template.markup:378 in _match
<<                      for event in self._match(self._flatten(template, ctxt,
                                                                  **vars),
                                                    ctxt, start=idx + 1, **vars):
                               yield event
>>  ctxt, start=idx + 1, **vars):
Module genshi.template.markup:327 in _match
<<                      break
      
               for event in stream:
      
                   # We (currently) only care about start and end events for matching
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.template.base:565 in _flatten
<<                  elif kind is EXPR:
                           result = _eval_expr(data, ctxt, vars)
                           if result is not None:
                               # First check for a string, otherwise the iterable test
>>  result = _eval_expr(data, ctxt, vars)
Module genshi.template.base:277 in _eval_expr
<<      if vars:
               ctxt.push(vars)
           retval = expr.evaluate(ctxt)
           if vars:
               ctxt.pop()
>>  retval = expr.evaluate(ctxt)
Module genshi.template.eval:178 in evaluate
<<          __traceback_hide__ = 'before_and_this'
               _globals = self._globals(data)
               return eval(self.code, _globals, {'__data__': data})
>>  return eval(self.code, _globals, {'__data__': data})
Module ?:16 in <Expression u"h.subnav_link(c, h.icon('comments') + _('Comments & Questions'), controller='package', action='comments', id=c.pkg.name)">
<<        </li>
             <li py:if="g.has_commenting">
                 ${h.subnav_link(c, h.icon('comments') + _('Comments &amp; Questions'), controller='package', action='comments', id=c.pkg.name)}
             </li>
             <li>${h.subnav_link(c, h.icon('page_white_stack') + _('History'), controller='package', action='history', id=c.pkg.name)}</li>
>>  ${h.subnav_link(c, h.icon('comments') + _('Comments &amp; Questions'), controller='package', action='comments', id=c.pkg.name)}
Module ckan.lib.helpers:126 in subnav_link
<<      return link_to(
               text,
               url_for(action=action, **kwargs),
               class_=('active' if c.action == action else '')
           )
>>  url_for(action=action, **kwargs),
Module routes.util:280 in url_for
<<          raise GenerationException(
                   "url_for could not generate URL. Called with args: %s %s" % \
                   (args, kargs))
           return url
>>  (args, kargs))
GenerationException: url_for could not generate URL. Called with args: () {'action': 'comments', 'controller': 'package', 'id': 'dengue-net'}
CGI Variables
AUTH_TYPE 	'cookie'
DOCUMENT_ROOT 	'/etc/apache2/htdocs'
GATEWAY_INTERFACE 	'CGI/1.1'
HTTP_ACCEPT 	'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 	'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 	'gzip, deflate'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 	'pt-br,pt;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3'
HTTP_CONNECTION 	'keep-alive'
HTTP_COOKIE 	'__utma=4669863.1260802706.1295364409.1306935693.1306960483.86; __utmz=4669863.1295364409.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); SESS61faf7f7d2406929b2f9eb4cbfff17d2=a3306f5d1194cf0d8a51dbf7b42c1259; ckan=d4951177ef995d92f0f987d481bd9180aa0f89e4518921db9cd9b6ac75fdd3fab4a25d06; auth_tkt="c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!userid_type:unicode"; auth_tkt="c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!userid_type:unicode"; ckan_user="flavio"; ckan_display_name="Fl\xc3\xa1vio Code\xc3\xa7o Coelho"; ckan_apikey="c139718d-918f-4a2b-b219-e33cb05cbe23"; __utmc=4669863'
HTTP_HOST 	'ckan.emap.fgv.br'
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 	'115'
HTTP_REFERER 	'http://ckan.emap.fgv.br/'
HTTP_USER_AGENT 	'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1'
PATH_INFO 	'/package/dengue-net'
PATH_TRANSLATED 	'/home/flavio/var/srvc/ckan.emap.fgv.br/pyenv/bin/ckan.emap.fgv.br.py/package/dengue-net'
REMOTE_ADDR 	'10.250.48.110'
REMOTE_PORT 	'47624'
REMOTE_USER 	u'flavio'
REMOTE_USER_DATA 	'userid_type:unicode'
REMOTE_USER_TOKENS 	['']
REQUEST_METHOD 	'GET'
REQUEST_URI 	'/package/dengue-net'
SCRIPT_FILENAME 	'/home/flavio/var/srvc/ckan.emap.fgv.br/pyenv/bin/ckan.emap.fgv.br.py'
SERVER_ADDR 	'10.252.2.60'
SERVER_ADMIN 	'[no address given]'
SERVER_NAME 	'ckan.emap.fgv.br'
SERVER_PORT 	'80'
SERVER_PROTOCOL 	'HTTP/1.1'
SERVER_SIGNATURE 	'<address>Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at ckan.emap.fgv.br Port 80</address>\n'
SERVER_SOFTWARE 	'Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)'
WSGI Variables
application 	<beaker.middleware.CacheMiddleware object at 0x7f051c802690>
beaker.cache 	<beaker.cache.CacheManager object at 0x7f051c802750>
beaker.get_session 	<bound method SessionMiddleware._get_session of <beaker.middleware.SessionMiddleware object at 0x7f051c8026d0>>
beaker.session 	{'locale': u'pt_BR', '_accessed_time': 1307358102.6266389, '_creation_time': 1302605470.0245121}
mod_wsgi.application_group 	'dck093|'
mod_wsgi.callable_object 	'application'
mod_wsgi.handler_script 	''
mod_wsgi.input_chunked 	'0'
mod_wsgi.listener_host 	''
mod_wsgi.listener_port 	'80'
mod_wsgi.process_group 	'ckan'
mod_wsgi.request_handler 	'wsgi-script'
mod_wsgi.script_reloading 	'1'
mod_wsgi.version 	(3, 3)
paste.cookies 	(<SimpleCookie: SESS61faf7f7d2406929b2f9eb4cbfff17d2='a3306f5d1194cf0d8a51dbf7b42c1259' __utma='4669863.1260802706.1295364409.1306935693.1306960483.86' __utmc='4669863' __utmz='4669863.1295364409.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)' auth_tkt='c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!userid_type:unicode' ckan='d4951177ef995d92f0f987d481bd9180aa0f89e4518921db9cd9b6ac75fdd3fab4a25d06' ckan_apikey='c139718d-918f-4a2b-b219-e33cb05cbe23' ckan_display_name='Fl\xc3\xa1vio Code\xc3\xa7o Coelho' ckan_user='flavio'>, '__utma=4669863.1260802706.1295364409.1306935693.1306960483.86; __utmz=4669863.1295364409.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); SESS61faf7f7d2406929b2f9eb4cbfff17d2=a3306f5d1194cf0d8a51dbf7b42c1259; ckan=d4951177ef995d92f0f987d481bd9180aa0f89e4518921db9cd9b6ac75fdd3fab4a25d06; auth_tkt="c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!userid_type:unicode"; auth_tkt="c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!userid_type:unicode";... __utmc=4669863')
paste.registry 	<paste.registry.Registry object at 0x7f051d7e5710>
paste.throw_errors 	True
pylons.action_method 	<bound method PackageController.read of <ckan.controllers.package.PackageController object at 0x7f051d7e5b10>>
pylons.controller 	<ckan.controllers.package.PackageController object at 0x7f051d7e5b10>
pylons.environ_config 	{'session': 'beaker.session', 'cache': 'beaker.cache'}
pylons.pylons 	<pylons.util.PylonsContext object at 0x7f051d7e5a50>
pylons.routes_dict 	{'action': u'read', 'controller': u'package', 'id': u'dengue-net'}
repoze.who.identity 	<repoze.who identity (hidden, dict-like) at 139659946193344>
repoze.who.logger 	<logging.Logger instance at 0x7f051c801128>
repoze.who.plugins 	{'openid': <OpenIdIdentificationPlugin 139659931643152>, 'friendlyform': <FriendlyFormPlugin 139659929725584>, 'ckan.lib.authenticator:UsernamePasswordAuthenticator': <ckan.lib.authenticator.UsernamePasswordAuthenticator object at 0x7f051c9e7610>, 'auth_tkt': <AuthTktCookiePlugin 139659931643280>, 'ckan.lib.authenticator:OpenIDAuthenticator': <ckan.lib.authenticator.OpenIDAuthenticator object at 0x7f051c9dcfd0>}
routes.route 	<routes.route.Route object at 0x7f051c69fd50>
routes.url 	<routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0x7f051d7e57d0>
webob._parsed_cookies 	({'ckan': 'd4951177ef995d92f0f987d481bd9180aa0f89e4518921db9cd9b6ac75fdd3fab4a25d06', '__utmz': '4669863.1295364409.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)', 'auth_tkt': 'c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!userid_type:unicode', 'ckan_display_name': 'Fl\xc3\xa1vio Code\xc3\xa7o Coelho', 'ckan_apikey': 'c139718d-918f-4a2b-b219-e33cb05cbe23', 'ckan_user': 'flavio', '__utma': '4669863.1260802706.1295364409.1306935693.1306960483.86', '__utmc': '4669863', 'SESS61faf7f7d2406929b2f9eb4cbfff17d2': 'a3306f5d1194cf0d8a51dbf7b42c1259'}, '__utma=4669863.1260802706.1295364409.1306935693.1306960483.86; __utmz=4669863.1295364409.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); SESS61faf7f7d2406929b2f9eb4cbfff17d2=a3306f5d1194cf0d8a51dbf7b42c1259; ckan=d4951177ef995d92f0f987d481bd9180aa0f89e4518921db9cd9b6ac75fdd3fab4a25d06; auth_tkt="c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!userid_type:unicode"< wbr>; auth_tkt="c6c3c3e0b3fe7bb765356659992760b24da43221flavio!... __utmc=4669863')
webob._parsed_query_vars 	(GET([]), '')
webob.adhoc_attrs 	{'language': 'en-us'}
wsgi process 	'Multi process AND threads (?)'
wsgi.file_wrapper 	<built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0x7f051cc1ad50>
wsgi.version 	(1, 1)
wsgiorg.routing_args 	(<routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0x7f051d7e57d0>, {'action': u'read', 'controller': u'package', 'id': u'dengue-net'})

A small number of tags are near-duplicates of each other.

Perhaps we could support word stemming from NLTK and/or manual tag aliases:

statistics statistik ... survey surveying surveys

Most of CKANs storage options are tied to the USA. This brings concerns of data security for some organisations who may wish to adopt the system. ​Wuala is a distributed file system that stores data in a peer-to-peer manner. The company behind it, LaCie? sells storage for a fee. However, they also enable clients to have 'free' storage space when machines act as a storage node.

In order to be a storage node, a machine needs to be online for more than 14% of the time - roughly 4h per day. Most CKAN servers are likely to have a far greater uptime than this.

Supporting Wuala would go some way to enabling CKAN to be used in a secure manner. That is, CKAN could be promoted for organisational use where there is lots of data to be stored and large geographic distances to be managed. There is a ​Python client available and a fairly ​long Google Tech Talk that overviews the system.

You can register a user with password and (optional) email address. But if you forget the password you can't then log in again. We need a password reset facility that sends and email with a new password.

​Spideroak is a bulk storage platform by a company that releases quite a lot of ​free software, has an extensive ​developer API with pricing of $10/100GB/month.

The data store is optimised for bulk data storage and retrieval. This is the kind of use case that CKAN packages require. We don't need low latency. We are after low cost, high reliability solution.

A new library, ​guiders.js, has been open sourced that seems to be great at unobtrusively introducing new users to features of websites.

The library drives Optimizely's website. The GitHub repo is here: ​https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS

Some examples:

PDEU has a newer layout which could be adapted to also be used on ckan.net. For this, things should be cleaned up, copied to the ckanext-ckan.net repo as needed and re-colored the core CKAN color scheme.

Maybe we could have this coincide with a CKAN rename?

When renaming a package, and doing other changes at the same time an error is reported. However, the changes seem to go through fine.

ENV:

• datacatalogs.org as of 29 June 2011

I'm not sure if this was reported earlier, but I have found a minor bug in the "Add new package" form. As far as I can see this bug exists in v1.3.2 and also in v1.4.1a (that runs on ckan.net). This is a problem with adding new resources in "Resources" section. To reproduce the bug do the following:

1. Go to "Add new package", for instance ​http://ckan.net/package/new
2. Scroll down to "Resources" section.
3. Click on "Remove this row" link (red circle).
4. Say "Yes" to "Are you sure you wish to remove this row?"
5. Now there should be no rows. Only the header "URL* Format Description"
6. Click on "Add row to table"
7. All you get now is another row with table header "URL* Format Description". You will not be able to add any resources now. Solution is to reload the page.

The simplest solution to this bug will be to hide the "Remove this row" link if there is only one row.

IndexError? exception in genshi.filters.i18n keeps popping up daily.

e.g.

...
Module ckan.controllers.authorization_group:28 in index
<<              items_per_page=20
               )
               return render('authorization_group/index.html')
       
           def read(self, id):
>>  return render('authorization_group/index.html')
Module ckan.lib.base:74 in render
<<      
           return cached_template(template_name, render_template, cache_key=cache_key, 
                                  cache_type=cache_type, cache_expire=cache_expire)
                                  #, ns_options=('method'), method=method)
>>  cache_type=cache_type, cache_expire=cache_expire)
Module pylons.templating:249 in cached_template
<<          return content
           else:
               return render_func()
>>  return render_func()
Module ckan.lib.base:63 in render_template
<<              stream = item.filter(stream)
               
               return literal(stream.render(method=method, encoding=None))
           
           if 'Pragma' in response.headers:
>>  return literal(stream.render(method=method, encoding=None))
Module genshi.core:183 in render
<<              method = self.serializer or 'xml'
               generator = self.serialize(method=method, **kwargs)
               return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding, out=out)
       
           def select(self, path, namespaces=None, variables=None):
>>  return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding, out=out)
Module genshi.output:57 in encode
<<          _encode = lambda string: string
           if out is None:
               return _encode(''.join(list(iterator)))
           for chunk in iterator:
               out.write(_encode(chunk))
>>  return _encode(''.join(list(iterator)))
Module genshi.output:339 in __call__
<<          for filter_ in self.filters:
                   stream = filter_(stream)
               for kind, data, pos in stream:
                   cached = cache_get((kind, data))
                   if cached is not None:
>>  for kind, data, pos in stream:
Module genshi.output:670 in __call__
<<          _gen_prefix = _gen_prefix().next
       
               for kind, data, pos in stream:
                   output = cache_get((kind, data))
                   if output is not None:
>>  for kind, data, pos in stream:
Module genshi.output:771 in __call__
<<          push_text = textbuf.append
               pop_text = textbuf.pop
               for kind, data, pos in chain(stream, [(None, None, None)]):
       
                   if kind is TEXT:
>>  for kind, data, pos in chain(stream, [(None, None, None)]):
Module genshi.output:586 in __call__
<<      def __call__(self, stream):
               prev = (None, None, None)
               for ev in stream:
                   if prev[0] is START:
                       if ev[0] is END:
>>  for ev in stream:
Module genshi.core:288 in _ensure
<<      # unchanged
           yield event
           for event in stream:
               yield event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.core:288 in _ensure
<<      # unchanged
           yield event
           for event in stream:
               yield event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:686 in _unmark
<<      def _unmark(self, stream):
               for mark, event in stream:
                   kind = event[0]
                   if not (kind is None or kind is ATTR or kind is BREAK):
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:1145 in __call__
<<          :param stream: The marked event stream to filter
               """
               for mark, event in stream:
                   yield mark, event
                   if mark is ENTER:
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:714 in __call__
<<          stream = iter(stream)
               next = stream.next
               for mark, event in stream:
                   if mark is None:
                       yield mark, event
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:682 in _mark
<<      def _mark(self, stream):
               for event in stream:
                   yield OUTSIDE, event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.core:288 in _ensure
<<      # unchanged
           yield event
           for event in stream:
               yield event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:686 in _unmark
<<      def _unmark(self, stream):
               for mark, event in stream:
                   kind = event[0]
                   if not (kind is None or kind is ATTR or kind is BREAK):
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module ckanext.googleanalytics.plugin:62 in download_adder
<<              (downloaded %s times)</span>'''
                   count = None
                   for mark, (kind, data, pos) in stream:
                       if mark and kind == START:
                           href = data[1].get('href')
>>  for mark, (kind, data, pos) in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:714 in __call__
<<          stream = iter(stream)
               next = stream.next
               for mark, event in stream:
                   if mark is None:
                       yield mark, event
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:682 in _mark
<<      def _mark(self, stream):
               for event in stream:
                   yield OUTSIDE, event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.core:288 in _ensure
<<      # unchanged
           yield event
           for event in stream:
               yield event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:686 in _unmark
<<      def _unmark(self, stream):
               for mark, event in stream:
                   kind = event[0]
                   if not (kind is None or kind is ATTR or kind is BREAK):
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:1175 in __call__
<<          """
               callable_value = hasattr(self.value, '__call__')
               for mark, (kind, data, pos) in stream:
                   if mark is ENTER:
                       if callable_value:
>>  for mark, (kind, data, pos) in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:714 in __call__
<<          stream = iter(stream)
               next = stream.next
               for mark, event in stream:
                   if mark is None:
                       yield mark, event
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:682 in _mark
<<      def _mark(self, stream):
               for event in stream:
                   yield OUTSIDE, event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.core:288 in _ensure
<<      # unchanged
           yield event
           for event in stream:
               yield event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:686 in _unmark
<<      def _unmark(self, stream):
               for mark, event in stream:
                   kind = event[0]
                   if not (kind is None or kind is ATTR or kind is BREAK):
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:1145 in __call__
<<          :param stream: The marked event stream to filter
               """
               for mark, event in stream:
                   yield mark, event
                   if mark is ENTER:
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:714 in __call__
<<          stream = iter(stream)
               next = stream.next
               for mark, event in stream:
                   if mark is None:
                       yield mark, event
>>  for mark, event in stream:
Module genshi.filters.transform:682 in _mark
<<      def _mark(self, stream):
               for event in stream:
                   yield OUTSIDE, event
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.template.base:618 in _include
<<                      tmpl = self.loader.load(href, relative_to=event[2][0],
                                                   cls=cls or self.__class__)
                           for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
                               yield event
                       except TemplateNotFound:
>>  for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
Module genshi.template.base:618 in _include
<<                      tmpl = self.loader.load(href, relative_to=event[2][0],
                                                   cls=cls or self.__class__)
                           for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
                               yield event
                       except TemplateNotFound:
>>  for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
Module genshi.template.base:618 in _include
<<                      tmpl = self.loader.load(href, relative_to=event[2][0],
                                                   cls=cls or self.__class__)
                           for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
                               yield event
                       except TemplateNotFound:
>>  for event in tmpl.generate(ctxt, **vars):
Module genshi.template.base:605 in _include
<<          from genshi.template.loader import TemplateNotFound
       
               for event in stream:
                   if event[0] is INCLUDE:
                       href, cls, fallback = event[1]
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.template.markup:378 in _match
<<                      for event in self._match(self._flatten(template, ctxt,
                                                                  **vars),
                                                    ctxt, start=idx + 1, **vars):
                               yield event
>>  ctxt, start=idx + 1, **vars):
Module genshi.template.markup:327 in _match
<<                      break
       
               for event in stream:
       
                   # We (currently) only care about start and end events for matching
>>  for event in stream:
Module genshi.template.base:545 in _flatten
<<          while 1:
                   for kind, data, pos in stream:
       
                       if kind is START and data[1]:
>>  for kind, data, pos in stream:
Module genshi.filters.i18n:177 in _generate
<<                  msgbuf.append(*previous)
                       previous = None
                   for event in msgbuf.translate(gettext(msgbuf.format())):
                       yield event
                   if previous:
>>  for event in msgbuf.translate(gettext(msgbuf.format())):
Module genshi.filters.i18n:1029 in translate
<<                      )
       
               parts = parse_msg(string)
               parts_counter = {}
               for order, string in parts:
>>  parts = parse_msg(string)
Module genshi.filters.i18n:1143 in parse_msg
<<      if string:
               parts.append((stack[-1], string))
       
           return parts
>>  parts.append((stack[-1], string))
IndexError: list index out of range

Dgu tests failed as harvesting table are not created at the correct point.

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.

The right hand side of ​thedatahub.org login screen is a little confusing:

    Not a member?

    Join CKAN to contribute packages under your own name.

     - Register
     - Reset your password
     - Privacy Policy

Suggested improvements to make:

• replace CKAN with thedatahub.org
• in general, edit the copy to be more inviting
• remove "Reset your password" from that bubble
• move the privacy policy link to somewhere less prominent

When you edit a package in the web form, if the notes field had \n as the End Of Line symbol, it gets lost when you preview or save the package, and the notes field is displayed all on one line.

This can be seen when editing annakarenina (as created by 'paster create-test-data'). The diff shows for example:

- Some test notes
+ Some test notes
?                +

but it would more clearly be shown as:

- Some test notes\n
+ Some test notes
?                ++

This is a significant problem with DGU, since a lot comes in via the API.

It's not clear what we should do about it. We could standardise on \n or \r\n when the form submission comes in. Do different browsers on different platforms do different things with EOLs?

Analysis

Displaying the package: the Markdown processor respects both EOLs when displaying the field, putting each line in a <p> tag.

Creating the package edit form: placed into <textfield>.

Browser displaying package edit form: <textfield> displays \n and \r\n as EOL. But \n\n gets compressed to one EOL. But on submission, both are returned as \r\n.

Receiving the edited package: Somewhere along the line the EOL gets converted to \n\n.

We are getting more and more spam on ckan.net and we need to improve our strategy of combating it. It is bad because google ranks who we link to (which we do want for legitimate links), and our front page contains the latest package edits, so spam is immediately very visible.

Spam:

• Package creation
• Package edit
• User creation
• Group creation

Systems to consider:

• Automatic
  • captcha
  • bayesian scoring
• Sysadmin
  • a tool to quickly analyse and remove packages, edits and users
• Helpful users
  • button to click indicating spam, leading to any/all of:
    • add TODO item (which emails package admin and sysadmins)
    • quarantine the package/user so it doesn't show up on the front page and a warning is shown when you view it

General thoughts:

• We should learn from the wikipedia tools, as they are the experts
• This is a serious problem that is only going to get worse and is a threat to the whole site.

It seems that searching for extras_foo:value works with solr, but extras_foo.bar:value doesn't. No theory on why.

Consolidate the extra spatial as the field for providing information about the geographic extent of the package. This will integrate automatically with the spatial search and give developers a single point to develop geospatial features.

There are some functions that still use the Auhtorizer().authorized_query method:

./ckan/controllers/authorization_group.py:24:        query = ckan.authz.Authorizer().authorized_query(c.user, model.AuthorizationGroup)
./ckan/lib/base.py:237:        groups = ckan.authz.Authorizer.authorized_query(c.user, model.Group, 
./ckan/lib/search/sql.py:55:        q = authz.Authorizer().authorized_query(username, model.Group)
./ckan/lib/search/sql.py:118:        q = authz.Authorizer().authorized_query(self.options.get('username'), model.Package)
./ckan/logic/action/get.py:154:    query = Authorizer().authorized_query(user, model.Group, model.Action.EDIT)

./ckan/tests/test_authz.py:158:        q = self.authorizer.authorized_query(self.notadmin.name, model.Package)
./ckan/tests/test_authz.py:353:        q = self.authorizer.authorized_query(self.notmember.name, model.Package)
./ckan/tests/test_authz.py:357:        q = self.authorizer.authorized_query(self.member.name, model.Package)
./ckan/tests/functional/test_authorization_group.py:44:        group_count = Authorizer.authorized_query(u'russianfan', model.AuthorizationGroup).count()

Currently a sysadmin gets an email when an exception is not caught. But there are occasions when we DO want to catch an exception so we can fail nicely for the user, but the sysadmin STILL gets an email to know to fix something. e.g. if there is an exception when search indexes a package. You want to catch the exception and still run any other notify calls.

When you create or edit a package (via the API), you aren't able to specify the relationships it has. (If you do you get 409 {"__junk": ["The input field __junk was not expected."]} )

The normal way to create relationships is via /api/rest/relationships/ and this works. But when you GET a package, the dictionary lists all relationship details. So this bug creates a problem for editing a package that has relationships - you want to GET it, make any edits and then PUT it back. The work-around is to delete the 'relationships' key from the dict before you PUT it back.

Options

Ideally, CKAN would read the 'relationships' key and make the necessary changes. This is a chunk of work.

Another good option is to allow an unchanged 'relationships' value, but barf it is edited. This is also a chunk of work.

A bad option would be to just ignore the 'relationships' value, since users will get frustrated changing this value and wonder why it never saves, not understanding it is different to all the rest, without error message.

A final option is to get rid of relationships altogether.

Apparently the search generator always makes two requests, even if you don't want to see the search results, which might be slow. Can this be optimised?

Maybe we should also provide a second search function that doesn't use the generator - the original simple search function (that leaves the user to deal with limit & offset).

Focusing on improving Action API as the v3 API:

• have an optional parameter of the data_dict called "options". Options would contain items that would get passed into the context. e.g. {"options" : {"ref_package_by": "id"}}.
• instead of using API version to change the way packages are referenced, use the ref_package_by.
• All package_show, group_show etc. to accept an object 'name' as an alternative to object 'id'.
• Action API is v3 of api, replacement for v1 & v2. Default for most urls is still v1, but if url is /api/action then default to v3.

Next steps:

• Add search API (package, resource,
• Add Util API
• Clarify JSONP still applies
• Add doc strings, clarifying parameters

Split out of #852. Automated archiving of datasets (related to QA).

Automated archiving using worker process

• #890 - Timed actions in ckanext-queue
• #891 - Resource download worker daemon
• #892 - Make stored data available in WUI

test_authz.py appears to test in great detail some very specific additional authz (related to total site lock-down it seems -- introduced I think for hri project).

I think there are simpler ways to get total site lockdown (use external auth!) and this test is slow and delicate (e.g. depends on specific words in templates). Suggest removing. If we don't remove we should at least refactor tests for access to certain pages to use a proper method of testing (e.g. agreed html comments in each page) rather than being depending on the presence of absence of specific wording.

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)

The extras in the package object sent to the extensions after editing (​https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/src/01efd5649c10/ckan/logic/action/update.py#cl-226) do not include the newly added.

Either: thedatahub.org does not display 'add a dataset' top navigation link or the 'create dataset' main central link to logged in user - instead showing 'sign up' link in the central box. It does however display the 'my account' and 'logout' link in the top right correctly.

Navigating to another part of the site (e.g. search or about or my account) does bring the 'add a dataset' navigation link back and the functionality works.

Works fine on test.ckan.net so only on thedatahub.

Not obviously a caching problem, since I did try clearing cache.

OR: it displays as if you're logged in even when you log out. The links doesn't work and prompt you to log in though.

At the paster db init command when installing ckan from source I get the error "Import Error: cannot import name UnicodeMultiDict?" (happens with both ckan 1.4.2 and today's latest bleeding edge code, on Ubuntu 10.04.3).

UnicodeMultiDict? has been removed in a recent version of python-webob, and the pip install ... lucid_missing.txt causes a too-new version of python-webob to be installed into ckan's virtualenv (the new webob gets installed as a dependency of formalchemy).

I manually did pip uninstall webob and then ran paster db init again and it worked.

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

• Description vs Name - Edit Resources view is showing the name of the package rather than the description, and a lot (all?) of the packages before the upgrade don't have names, so might be good to swap this round again, e.g.: ​http://thedatahub.org/dataset/edit/iati-registry
• Moving resources - Moving them up or down the list used to be quite useful if you had a lot of resources that you might want to leave on the resources page, but only one or two that were actually current and that you wanted to draw attention to. This doesn't exist any more on CKAN but I think it would be good to add it back in.

On some occasions (apparently random), the documents indexed in a specific SOLR core get mixed with different site_ids.

E.g: We look for all documents in the testing.iatiregistry.org core, faceted by site_id. We would expect all documents to have site_id = iati_testing, but some of them have site_id = iatiregistry.org

​http://okfn-solr.fry-it.com:8080/solr/testing.iatiregistry.org/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=*:*&fq=+state:active&facet=true&facet.field=site_id

<lst name="facet_fields">
<lst name="site_id">
<int name="iati_testing">265</int>
<int name="iatiregistry.org">255</int>
</lst>
</lst>

If we compare one of the records which disappeared from the "iati_testing" site_id in both the production and testing SOLR cores of the server, the records are exactly the same, including the indexed_ts property:

​http://okfn-solr.fry-it.com:8080/solr/iatiregistry.org/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=id:97d1ab0d-b203-4757-8f4e-a0c84d2f759f&facet=true&facet.field=site_id

​http://okfn-solr.fry-it.com:8080/solr/testing.iatiregistry.org/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=id:97d1ab0d-b203-4757-8f4e-a0c84d2f759f&facet=true&facet.field=site_id

Note that the response from the URLs shown may vary, as the testing site could have been reindexed.

A good service API needs to be discoverable, so you are not always having to refer to the documentation html.

Maybe /api/action should return a list of actions available? (Currently this returns a 404.)

• It would be nice to sort these into get/create/update/delete.
• #1438 Parameters for each of the actions must be discoverable too

/api/action/{action_name} should also return the help text / parameters allowable. (Currently this returns 400 error)

Current extensions documentation needs some work: ​http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/plugins.html

• Queue extension section may now be out of date (?)
• Think about how it integrates with ​https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-example (especially tutorial and example extension)
• Document all plugin points (auto-extract from CKAN source??)

The extension needs upgrading:

No module named webstore.database

The other option is to delay this functionality and merge with the publisher dashboards after the group refactor.

John, David Raznick, David Read, Ira, what do you think?

At the moment most of the harvesting functionality is only available to sysadmins. This is fine for most cases but going forward we will need to grant each publisher access to their own sources, harvest objects and harvest object errors. This will probably be done based on the groups refactor.

One more pressing concern is giving DGU publishers the ability to make calls to /harvest/object/id. We want them to be able to see documents that faild validation and also to see *all* errors in each document.

navl tests are being skipped unskip them!

ckanext-example needs updating for CKAN 1.5:

• theme changes
• new forms

About: 'ckanext-exampletheme' was created in Spring 2011 as an example CKAN extension that showed how to customise the look & operation of CKAN. This moved to github and renamed 'ckanext-example'.

If you edit your user name, the number of revisions you made returns to 0. This is because in the Revision object, the user's name is stored, rather than the user's ID.

rgrp: We can reconnect that pretty easily (and have a longer term solution that involves not using the usernames but the userids in in the Revision objects so we don't hvae this problem in future!)

The log-in page says "Login using Open ID" and gives instructions for signing up. YET this is only available to users who've already added openid to their account. If you have not done this and then sign-in via OpenID (which is successful from the OpenID end) then you are told "Login failed. Bad username or password." in a flash message.

Proposed solution (i don't know if this is possible):

• When you log-in for the first time via OpenID, it doesn't actually log you in in CKAN. It just sends you to the 'Create User' page with the OpenID field pre-filled, and puts up a flash message "This OpenID account is not yet registered on thedatahub. Please complete your details.". This allows you to complete the registration and logs you in, and allows you to log-in directly with OpenID in the future.

Alternatives:

• Just change the error message to be 'You need to register in CKAN first. Quote your OpenID in the registration form to use it in future.'
• Remove OpenID altogether

When using the API, the apikey needs to be supplied in a header called 'Authorization'. Because some proxys / deployments use this header for other things, a configurable header was provided as an alternative, with default "X-CKAN-API-KEY".

Rufus suggests having *one* way for this. a) making this not configurable any more b) making X-CKAN-API-KEY the default

(keep Authorization allowed, but not documented, for backwards compatibility)

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

It would be great to have a CKAN extension that allowed users (or CKAN itself) to generate short links to other URIs (both internal and external). Once created, shortlinks made by CKAN should be changeable. This would allow uploaded content to be moved without the user's link changing at all. The tool itself might also be of use as a general link-shortener to users other than the CKAN system itself.

Another useful feature would be for this to also collect some simple analytics such as the referrer and client IP for future reference. I'm not yet sure what we would do with the analytics other than some sort of popularity metric.

Questions:

• Core, or Extension, or Self-hosted?

Suggestions from rgrp:

• Get rid of Roles, and replace them with direct assignment of actions, even though there are many actions, and extensions can add arbitrary ones.
• Debatable whether we should cut the number of actions to correspond to the three roles defined by the base system.
• Have a method of finding roles (or, in future, actions) relevant to a given protection object (e.g. FILE-UPLOAD(ER) not relevant to Packages)

(This ticket is split off from #1065)

Ratings were disabled approximately a year ago because:

• Unclear purpose and UX. What did ratings tell you? How useful were they?
• Spamming (esp by bots: you could submit an anonymous rating via a GET request which caused problems)

Both problems are solvable and it would be nice to have this feature reinstated.

• Purpose: can make this more purposable by limiting to logged in users (or at least distinguishing logged in from non-logged in users)
  • Even better we could allow ratings to be made public (I'm interested in what someone else I respect finds important)
• Spamming: limit to logged in users and / or use AJAX over an API to submit ...

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.