[Zope-CMF] Moderated Discussion

[Lennon Day-Reynolds]

I've worked with Zope previously, but am relatively new to the CMF, so
please forgive any blatant newbie-isms I'm about to throw out there.

Basically, the project I'm working on requires a moderated discussion
capability. The workflow tools in the CMF seem like a good fit, but I'm
struggling with the issue of how best to add a normal workflow process to
the DiscussionItem type, which normally jumps directly to the "published"
state.

I've looked at the Python sources in CMFDefault, and can see a line near
the top of the DiscussionItem class definition which sets the workflow
status of new comments to "published" by default. I also can't see any
additional code which looks as though it would prevent the discussion type
from being subject to the default workflow policies. However, I wanted to
do a quick sanity-check with a more experienced group before I started
hacking sources to do what might be a very simple change.

My basic plan had been to create a new "Posting" class, which would behave
more like the standard CMF types, including a "publishing" view method. It
might even simply inherit from the DiscussionTool class, but block the
automatic publishing operation, so that user comments would also have to be
approved by a site moderator.

Does this sound crazy? Are there any big "gotchas" lurking in the heart of
the CMF that might make this much more complex than I think?

Thanks,

Lennon Day-Reynolds
lennon@day-reynolds.com