[Zope-PTK] Thoughts on a ZClass Squishdot

[Paul Everitt]

Kevin Dangoor wrote:
>     The idea is: rather than have a product that is *based* on ZDiscussions,
> why not stick with the generic News Items and add the ability to attach
> ZDiscussions to those News Items?

Yep.  The idea is to allow any PTK-aware object to have an "attached"
Discussion.

>     Not to get too far off track, but one of the things that I like (and
> frequently use) with KM|Net News is the scoring system. It's very simple,
> but it allows me to easily decide the ordering of the articles. This is
> useful on byproducts, because I usually don't want site news to be the top
> headline (the top headline should always be something silly). So, if the
> ordering was strictly chronological, I couldn't control this. I bring this
> up now, because I don't think it is necessary to hack this kind of
> functionality into ZDiscussions.
> 
>     I was thinking that News Items can have three different settings for the
> type of discussion that is used:
> 
> * No discussion
> 
> * A discussion that is created for this message (ala Squishdot)
> 
> * A discussions that is based on the message category. This might make sense
> for special purpose or slower traffic sites. If the site Manager does not
> expect to get a whole lot of discussion on any given message, they can just
> have discussions based on the categories of stories. For example, a space
> site could have discussions on Hubble, Mars, the Moon, etc. Any news item
> about Hubble would include the Hubble discussion (in Squishdot style)

Interesting.  This would mean that a number of items could share the
same discussion?

--Paul