Introduction
============
plone.app.discussion replaces the old commenting system in Plone 4.1 and is also
available as an add-on product for Plone 3 and 4. It was initially developed as
part of the Google Summer of Code 2009 by Timo Stollenwerk (student) and Martin
Aspeli (mentor).
.. 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 = 1.0
...
[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 = 1.0
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>`_.
Known Issues
============
- **ImportError: No module named owner**: You are trying to install
plone.app.discussion 2.x on Plone < 4.1. Pin plone.app.discussion to a version
< 2.0.
- **KeyError: 'Interface `plone.app.discussion.interfaces.IDiscussionSettings`
defines a field `moderator_email`, for which there is no record.'**: An
upgrade step was unsuccessful. Reinstall plone.app.discussion to fix this.
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)
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