There have been many ideas floating around regarding how comments should be handled and we want to sit down, collect them and create a story that covers all aspects, especially the following:

• it seems, we will have to cover the "comments as annotations" and "comments as content objects" story
  
• for the annotations based approach we will need some sort of generic cataloging of annotations
  
• obviously, moderation, spam protection and notification will be an issue
• the use cases should include (at least) the following: "regular" comments, trackbacks, threaded comments

Kickoff meeting

Martin Aspeli and Rocky Burton have agreed to contribute their ideas and advice at a kick-off meeting. This should probably take place before the sprint (i.e a couple of beers round a table in the evening, let's make this fun ;-). We'll announce a specific time and place some time during day one of the conference.

Miscellaneous

PLIP (Where it all began):

• http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/179

Jon Stahl's musing's on how to improve commenting, May 2007

• http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/archives/2007/05/16/improving-plone-comments/
  

Some code:

• iqpp.commenting (could act as a base)
  http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/iqpp/commenting
• New release (0.5 beta 1)
  http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/iqpp.plone.commenting/tags/0.5-beta-1
  
• tomster's EasyGuestbook - (a real world application which uses iqpp.commenting)
  http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/EasyGuestbook
  

Participants (topics)

• Tom Lazar (leader)
• Kai Diefenbach
  

Interested:

• Christian Scholz
• ...

List of Use Cases / Requirements

(add to it as you will)

• comment moderation (basically like WP but a complete Plone workflow for it might be nice). workflow might depend on user status, like anonymous etc.
• comment overview for a certain site subtree should be possible
  
• email notification of comments
• pluggable captcha system (or math question)
• AJAX support would be nice (look at a post, click the comment button, comment form appears, fill it in, comment form gets replaced by new comment)
• pluggable spam protection (default Akismet?)
• enable comments on a per folder/object basis
• ability to mark "admin" comments with a special CSS class (to make them stand out)
• enable custom fields (default should probably be just Name, E-Mail, optional URL and comment)
• post with an openid as identification might be nice

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