http://localhost/ticket/1425 <p> From Jonathan gray: </p> <p> At the moment to delete a package you have to go to 'state' and change from 'active' to 'deleted'. </p> <p> For me this was not very obvious, and someone recently wrote to me about this too. </p> <p> Its a small issue - but unless you know what 'state: active' refers to, its not obvious what this means, nor that this is where to go if you want to delete a package. </p> <p> From UI perspective this could be replaced by either a trash can or some text that says 'delete', perhaps with some prompt that explains what happens when you delete a package - explaining that non-admins won't be able to see it, and how you purge, etc. </p> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/1425 Trac 0.12.3 dread Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:03:32 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>owner</strong> set to <em>zephod</em> </li> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>assigned</em> </li> </ul> <p> Cheers for taking this on Tom </p> Ticket shevski Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:36:47 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>keywords</strong> <em>ux</em> added </li> </ul> Ticket dread Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:35:22 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:3 http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:3 <ul> <li><strong>cc</strong> <em>shevski</em> added </li> </ul> <p> There is a package_delete logic function to achieve this (and indeed group_delete too). </p> <p> One of the reasons we haven't advertised it with a button is that anyone with 'edit' privileges can go round deleting packages. It's one thing spotting graffiti, but when you delete packages, it takes a lot of effort to spot nefarious deletions. </p> <p> I think should either restrict deleting to sysadmins or have a separate authz-action DELETE-PACKAGE that is not given to the average logged-in user. </p> <p> I believe Wikipedia does something similar - the average Joe can edit, but can't delete pages. </p> Ticket zephod Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:21:58 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:4 http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:4 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>assigned</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Refactored it to be (a) easy to find, and (b) a two-stage process which has a little more gravity. Like Bitbucket and <a class="missing wiki">GitHub?</a>. </p> <p> <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commit/f3a4c3de70da08d396da4e65a5d286b253be0e0b"><span class="icon">​</span>https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commit/f3a4c3de70da08d396da4e65a5d286b253be0e0b</a> </p> Ticket dread Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:08:02 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:5 http://localhost/ticket/1425#comment:5 <p> Went into CKAN 1.6 </p> Ticket