#15: Enable Ploneboard to serve as pluggable discussion module

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by Jon Stahl — last modified Jun 11, 2006 12:21 AM

Ploneboard should be able to serve as a drop-in replacement for the pluggable discussion module, in order to allow more powerful discussions on any Plone content object.

Proposed by: Jon Stahl, ONE/Northwest
Seconded by: Mark Fallu
Proposal type: Architecture, Forum functions
State: deferred

Motivation

Plone's discussion module is a bit too simple. Leveraging Ploneboard's soon-to-be-much-improved threaded discussion features would be an obvious win for discussions across an entire Plone site.

Assumptions

Mark Fallu suggested this PLIP to me via email.

I believe that Tim Hicks may well have already done some work on this.

Proposal

Hook up Ploneboard to the pluggable discussions interface. I lack the technical understanding specify this much further, but the outcomes should be that:

If comments are turned on for an object, then Ploneboard's logic powers the discussion thread for that item.
It might even be possible to aggregate the discussions from content objects in some sort of "dashboard" view, to give site users an "at a glance" view of the objects that are generating active discussions.

Comments (4)

Marshall Mayer Oct 20, 2005 06:42 PM

I agree this would be hugely useful. This alone may drive the wide adoption of Ploneboard.

Adam Theo Oct 21, 2005 08:23 AM

I would very much like to see this, since the default discussion system in Plone is very weak.

I have tried to replace Plone 2.1's default discussion system with Ploneboard 0.1 (svn) just a couple of days ago, but it didn't work, so I guess this feature is not yet complete in SVN. Or I just didn't do it correctly, since I'm not good at reading python code yet.

Marshall Mayer Nov 28, 2005 06:40 PM

I'm wondering how much interest there is in a migration tool, to migrate the old discussion format to Ploneboard? It seems once you start using Ploneboard for the discussion tool, which I think there will be a lot of interest in, you might as well confuse end users less by converting all of the older discussions to the Ploneboard format.

Marshall

foedecide Jan 24, 2006 05:39 PM

Out of interest is it an techinical or time reason this plip has been deffered. I notice a pluggable discussion ploneboard in the collective SVN, but it dosnt seem to be active. I think this would be a 'killer' feature for plone together with a stable forum product.