plone.app.discussion 1.0b1

Enhanced discussion support for Plone

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 [e-mail].

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

• collective.autoresizetextarea (for auto-resizing the comment textarea while typing)

• plone.formwidget.captcha (for Captcha spam protection)

• plone.formwidget.recaptcha (for ReCaptcha spam protection)

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)

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