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datasette-acl 0.6a0

datasette-acl 0.6a0 expands from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system. The plugin, primarily developed by Alex Garcia, enables multi-user Datasette instances to have finely grained control over access to resources within Datasette.

Background

- **Datasette** is an open-source tool by Simon Willison for exploring and publishing relational databases (SQLite, etc.) as interactive web interfaces. It's popular among data journalists, civic tech groups, and developers who need to share data with non-technical audiences. - **datasette-acl** is a plugin that adds Access Control Lists (who can see/edit what) to a Datasette instance. Until now, Datasette had no built-in multi-user permissions system — you either made data public or used a single API key. - This 0.6a0 (alpha) release extends the plugin from controlling access to individual tables (e.g., "only Alice can edit the 'users' table") toward a more general system of resources (e.g., queries, canned dashboards, or entire databases), making shared-but-controlled Datasette deployments more practical. - **Alex Garcia** is a core contributor to the Datasette ecosystem and author of several key plugins.

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