karma plugin Re: [Slashcode-development] [ slashcode-Patches-431439 ] Arepository for plugins

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

At 03:33 AM 6/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Alvaro del Castillo wrote:
> > and admin plugin rol. We can have an ACL that controls this. It could be
> > a good idea to test the ACL system with this simple plugin to learn the
> > possibilities of the ACL system ;-) If not, we can use the seclev
> > system. To activate a plugin you need to have more that 5000 or 10000.
>You know, I can not remember where we ended up with the debate on ACL's.
>Pudge, do you remember?
>
> > > 2) With category there needs to be a table listing
> > > category (AKA so they actually make sense).
> > Yes. We can use the createSelect function in Slash and have this
> > categories in a table. Maybe plugins_params ;-) because I think that a
> > plugin will change the info related to it in the near version of
> > slashcode.
>This is why code_params was created :)
>Easy enough for plugins to add items for getDescriptions().
>
> > But I am not sure if you refere to this. Maybe you talk about the
> > changes in the plugin between different versions and the patch needed to
> > upgrade the plugin.
>Yep, I was talking about revisions.
>
> > > 5) RSS output so that people can use it in slashboxes.
> > Yes, this is wonderfull :-)
>Pretty much everything should have the ability to dump data via
>RSS by this point. There is a Slash::XML library that was written
>for this (its only in Fry right now though, I could add a CVS module
>though for people to be able to extract it and install on their
>own). About a minute's worht of work.
>
> > - Instalation instructions.
> > - The possibility to have comments about the plugins from other users
> > maybe using a slash story.
>Comments for items like this is a fry feature, you can't really do them
>well in Bender.
>
> > - The possibility for the user to give points/stars to the plugins
>Overall moderation system tied to anything in the system.
>Cliff, any thoughts on this? I would love to see someone take the
>karma system and turn it into a plugin that could be used with
>any item. Since moderation is now tied in Fry to discussions you
>might be better off doing a seperate moderation system that
>worked on entities in the database. AKA tie it to anything
>with a primary key.

Oh please! This would be so cool. With the comments system
being redone, and something like this, you could stick comments
on anything, as well as karma "ratings" (is ratings the correct
word?) on anything.

  Shane