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).

plone.app.discussion is an add-on product for Plone 3.3.x and 4.0.x and will be
shipped as part of Plone 4.1. 

.. note::

  Make sure you pin down plone.app.discussion to versions < 2.0 if you want to
  install it as an add-on product (see install instructions below for more 
  details).

Please report bugs to the `Plone bug tracker`_.

.. _`Plone bug tracker`: http://dev.plone.org/plone/


For the roadmap of the project see our `Pivotal Tracker`_.

.. _`Pivotal Tracker`: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/15135


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/1.0

    ...

    [versions]
    plone.app.discussion = 1.1
    
    ...
    
    [instance]
    ...
    eggs =
        ...
        plone.app.discussion

    ...


Plone 4.x Buildout Installation
===============================

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

    [buildout]
    
    ...
    
    versions = versions
    
    [versions]
    plone.app.discussion = 1.1
    zope.schema = 3.6.4
    
    ...
    
    [instance]
    ...
    eggs =
        ...
        plone.app.discussion

    ...


Add-on Products
===============

- `collective.autoresizetextarea
  <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.autoresizetextarea/>`_
  (for auto-resizing the comment textarea while typing)

- `plone.formwidget.captcha
  <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.formwidget.captcha/>`_
  (for Captcha spam protection)

- `plone.formwidget.recaptcha
  <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.formwidget.recaptcha/>`_
  (for ReCaptcha spam protection)

- `collective.akismet
  <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.akismet/>`_
  (for Akismet spam protection)

- `collective.z3cform.norobots
  <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.z3cform.norobots/1.1/>`_
  (provides a "human" captcha widget based on a list of questions/answers)


Documentation
=============

- For developer documentation see  
  `http://packages.python.org/plone.app.discussion 
  <http://packages.python.org/plone.app.discussion>`_.

- For integrator/end-user documentation see 
  `http://plone.org/products/plone.app.discussion/documentation
  <http://plone.org/products/plone.app.discussion/documentation>`_.


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)