ckanext-announcements

Allow users to define scheduled announcements

Requirements

Compatibility with core CKAN versions:

ckanext-announcements only works with Python 3

CKAN version	Compatible?
2.8	no
2.9 (py2)	no
2.9 (py3)	yes
2.10	yes

Installation

To install ckanext-announcements:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate

2. Clone the source and install it on the virtualenv

   git clone https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-announcements.git cd ckanext-announcements pip install -e . pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add announcements to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini).

4. Update DB to add the announcements table

   ckan db upgrade -p announcements

5. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload

Config settings

ckanext.announcements.limit_announcements (default: 50)

Limit for the announcement list

ckan.display_timezone

Start and end dates are displayed in the timezone defined in this CKAN core setting

Developer installation

To install ckanext-announcements for development, activate your CKAN virtualenv and do:

git clone https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-announcements.git
cd ckanext-announcements
python setup.py develop
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Activate pre-commits

There are github actions to check code with flake8 so it will be usefull to activate pre-commits

pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install

Tests

To run the tests, do:

pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini

Releasing a new version of ckanext-announcements

If ckanext-announcements should be available on PyPI you can follow these steps to publish a new version:

1. Update the version number in the setup.py file. See PEP 440 for how to choose version numbers.

2. Make sure you have the latest version of necessary packages:

   pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel twine

3. Create a source and binary distributions of the new version:

   python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel && twine check dist/*
   

   Fix any errors you get.

4. Upload the source distribution to PyPI:

   twine upload dist/*
   

5. Commit any outstanding changes:

   git commit -a
   git push
   

6. Tag the new release of the project on GitHub with the version number from the setup.py file. For example if the version number in setup.py is 0.0.1 then do:

   git tag 0.0.1
   git push --tags
   

License

AGPL