[Ploneboard-developers] Ploneboard Discussion Tool

[Helge T. <he...@te...>]

Hello

I've just committed the skeleton for the Ploneboard Discussion Tool and 
thought I'd share my thoughts on how I want it to work.

It will be able to replace the default discussion tool in Plone/CMF and 
enable storing comments in conversations in a board instance instead of as 
talkback attributes on the content itself. Advantages being not messing 
with the content objects themselves, enabling comments in staged sites and 
being able to see all new comments in one place instead of scouring the 
site and the content objects themselves.

The plan is that the discussion tool will store mappings between content 
objects and conversations, and look them up either using reference id 
(archetypes referencable) or path. If a conversation does not exist, a new 
conversation will be created. We can add logic here if we want a forum for 
each type of content, or if we want content in certain folders to go to 
certain boards or forums. It would also be possible to share discussions 
among objects.

We will make a configuration screen like other products have in plone to 
make the discussion configuration available in the 'reconfigure portal' 
menu. It should be possible to select which board(s) and forum(s) to store 
comments in and to set up rules for where to store comments.


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Helge Tesdal