Enhanced discussion support for Plone
Project description
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/1.0b3
...
[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
1.0b3 (2010-01-28)
Added an i18n directory for messages in the plone domain and updated scripts to rebuild and sync it. [hannosch]
Added an optional conversationCanonicalAdapterFactory showing how to share comments across all translations with LinguaPlone, by storing and retrieving the conversation from the canonical object. [hannosch]
Play by the Plone 3.3+ rules and use the INavigationRoot as a base for the moderation view. [hannosch]
Added a commentTitle CSS class to the comment titles. [hannosch]
Update message ids to match their real text. [hannosch]
Set CSS classes for the comment form in the updateActions method. [timo]
Respect the allow_comments field on an object and avoid calculations if no comments should be shown. [hannosch]
Automatically load the ZCML files of the captcha widgets if they are installed. [hannosch]
Fixed i18n domain in GenericSetup profiles to be plone. Other values aren’t supported for GS profiles. [hannosch]
Provide our own copy of the default one state workflow. Not all Plone sites have this workflow installed. [hannosch]
Register the event subscribers for the correct interfaces in Plone 3. [hannosch]
Factored out subscriber declarations into its own ZCML file. [hannosch]
Bugfix for #2281226: Moderation View: Comments disappear when hitting the ‘Apply’ button without choosing a bulk action. [timo]
Allow to show the full text of a comment in the moderation view. [timo]
German translation added. [timo]
Italian translation added. [keul]
1.0b2 (2010-01-22)
Bugfix for #2010181: The name of a commenter who commented while not logged in should not appear as a link.
Bugfix for #2010078: Comments that await moderation are visually distinguished from published comments.
Bugfix for #2010085: Use object_provides instead of portal_type to query the catalog for comment.
Bugfix for #2010071: p.a.d. works with plone.z3cform 0.5.7 and plone.app.z3cform 0.4.9 now.
Bugfix for #1513398: Show “anonymous” when name field is empty in comment form.
Migration view: Dry run option added, abort transaction when something goes wrong during migration, be more verbose about errors.
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)
Basic commenting functionality and batch moderation.
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