Can I *strongly* suggest we just use the existing perfectly-good-system for flagging stuff called "tags" :)
I suggest we have agree in the community a standard set of "meta" tags for this kind of stuff. E.g. i'm already using the "duplicate" tag for marking duplicates (I also add in notes the link to duplicate package but that's optional). So I suggest we:
- Create "reserved" tag prefix "meta"
- Create following specific tags (suggestions/comments welcome):
- meta.duplicate - duplicate of another package. If possible
indicate in notes or an extras field (to be decided) what it is
duplicate of
Editors can then just visit http://ckan.net/tag/read/meta.spam and
work through list of packages there.
If "push" notifications are required as well as "pull" then I suggest this be put in an external service (e.g. rss2email) rather than integrated into CKAN core.