1.2 Review current CKAN Admin dashboard and enhance as appropriate

[rossjones]

As an Instance Admin I want to administrate my CKAN instance (e.g.
change config, add/remove users, set permissions) from a web user
interface so that it is easy for non-geeky and users without sysadmin 
access to the underlying machine to administrate the instance.

* Review current CKAN Admin Dashboard (currently very limited in extent) 
    a. Suggestion: Model on Wordpress Dashboard
* Tidy and/or improve if needed
* Point the way (but not necessarily implement) support for things like user 
   administration (cf #XX)
* [Nice to have] Add support for plugins/extensions to extend the dashboard
    a. This allows extensions to create their own admin interfaces
    b. Question: is this needed or is controller support that we have good enough?
    c. Ans: probably want more than this. Whether it be helper functions or even 
        if just documentation of how to do this

[rossjones]

I suspect with the current state of the admin section, this could be a significant amount of work.

I would broaden it perhaps to say "I want to do anything in the admin tool that I currently hassle my sysadmin to do on the command line". That will make it ever more work, but I have anecdata that this would be a very useful feature.

[Aaron-M]

A nice feature for this would be to enable selection of which groups and organisations (and datasets within) appear on the 'featured' lists on the home page. At the moment this needs be be configured under the hood, but is something that I as a "non-geeky" ckan sysadmin would like to be able to change regularly.

[wardi]

This is something ckan could really use. I don't think this is related to multisite though, a single-instance ckan user would want this too. Add an ideas ticket maybe?

[waldoj]

Yes, it is out of scope for the project, as delightful as it would be.