plone.app.discussion 1.0b1 (Beta release) (Dec 09, 2009)

This is not a final release. Experimental releases should only be used for testing and development. Do not use these on production sites, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.

Plone 4 compability, moderation view simplified, and bug fixes.

For additional information about this project, please visit the overview page .

Available downloads

There are no available software files in this release yet.

Release Notes

Tested with Plone 4, Plone 3
State Beta release
License GPL

Introduction

plone.app.discussion aims to be the new commenting system for Plone. It was initially developed as part of the Google Summer of Code 2009 by Timo Stollenwerk (student) and Martin Aspeli (mentor).

For details on the progress of this project, visit our Pivotal Tracker.

Feel free to send bug reports and feature requests to timo@zmag.de.

Requirements

Plone 3.3 or later.

Plone 3.x Buildout Installation

To install plone.app.discussion, add the following code to your buildout.cfg:

[buildout]
...
extends =
    ...
    http://good-py.appspot.com/release/plone.app.discussion/1.0a2

...

[instance]
...
eggs =
    ...
    plone.app.discussion

...

Plone 4.x Buildout Installation

To install plone.app.discussion, add the following code to your buildout.cfg:

[instance]
...
eggs =
    ...
    plone.app.discussion

...

Add-on Products

Credits

  • Timo Stollenwerk
  • Martin Aspeli

Many thanks to:

  • Jon Stahl (for acting as "the customer" during GSoC)
  • David Glick (for technical expertise and advice during GSoC)
  • Lennart Regebro (for writing the portal_discussion tool and initial unit tests)
  • Carsten Senger (for fixing the comment z3c.form form and pizza)
  • Hanno Schlichting (for making p.a.d work with Zope 2.12)
  • Alan Hoey (for providing fixes)
  • Maik Roeder (for providing and setting up a buildbot)

Change log

Changelog

1.0b1 (2009-12-08)

  • Fix redirect after a adding a comment
  • Replace yes/no widgets with check boxes in the discussion control panel
  • Make comments viewlet show up in Plone 4
  • Apply Plone 4 styles to comment form
  • Simplify moderation view by removing the filters

1.0a2 (2009-10-18)

  • Plone 4 / Zope 2.12 support
  • Comment migration script added
  • Pluggable plone.z3cform comment forms
  • Captcha and ReCaptcha support added

1.0a1 (2009-06-07)

  • Initial release
  • Basic commenting functionality and batch moderation