#15: Enable Ploneboard to serve as pluggable discussion module

Contents
  1. Motivation
  2. Assumptions
  3. Proposal
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.