On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:35:15PM +0200, Hilton Gibson wrote: > Yes - What does last active mean.
If you authenticate to DSpace by some means, you've just shown activity and your "last active" date stamp is updated. > For example we have collected approx 1700 e-persons using LDAP > auto-register. > Do they remain forever? That is a local policy decision. What this patch does is make DSpace collect information which could help you implement some policies. In DS-1230 I propose a tool for querying this attribute, which could be used to drive such policy implementations. But there's no code there yet. There are some other factors which can force such decisions. An EPerson who has contributed an item cannot be deleted, because the EPerson tuple is pinned by a foreign-key reference from an Item tuple. Such accounts could be disabled after a time, but the database schema will not let us remove them, by design. > It would be nice to say that if they have not logged in for a year then > suspend the account. > Also if they have not submitted an item in 2yrs or logged in then remove > the account. I suppose that a number of sites would like to do things like this. Claudia Jürgen makes some important points in her comment. For example, people who are crafting policies for weeding user accounts should consider whether a person with subscriptions is considered active, regardless of last logon date. You also raise an interesting point. There is "active user" and "active contributor". DSpace has, as long as I've known it, already defined (but did not implement) an attribute which supports the notion of "active user", but there isn't much to support distinguishing "active contributor", other than the log, and there is quite a lot of...stuff...to wade through in the log. Should DSpace also track a last-contribution date? This would require a schema change, and thus could not go in before 4.0. (Of course any site could choose to backport it.) I expect that many sites would find that most of their users will have NULL in this attribute. But it would facilitate not only distinguishing active contributors, but also learning what proportion of known users are contributors. Meanwhile: is there sufficient approval that this branch should be merged? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] There's an app for that: your browser
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