wiki:DiscussionPlugin

Version 32 (modified by kparlar, 17 years ago) (diff)

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Discussion forum plugin

Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.

Description

The DiscussionPlugin adds discussion forums to Trac. An arbitrary number of forums can be added, and each forum has a list of moderators who can block posts, etc. Plugin is administrated directly with apropriate rights for now but WebAdminPlugin support is planned.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for DiscussionPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

You can download zipped sources [download:discussionplugin here].

Source

You can check out the source for DiscussionPlugin from Subversion at http://trac-hacks.org/svn/discussionplugin.

Installation

After installing plugin's egg you can set in trac.ini configuration file following variables:

[discussion]
title = Discussion

If you run Trac in environment which needs to enable plugins explicitly put in trac.ini these lines:

[components]
tracdiscussion.init.discussioninit = enabled
tracdiscussion.timeline.discussiontimeline = enabled
tracdiscussion.wiki.discussionwiki = enabled
tracdiscussion.admin.discussionwebadmin = enabled
tracdiscussion.core.discussioncore = enabled

The next step is to upgrade your environment:

# trac-admin <path_to_environment> upgrade

For now sqlite version 3 or PostgreSQL is required as SQL backend for running this plugin.

Permissions

Discussion plugin defines four permissions. With DISCUSSION_VIEW permission you can view all topics and you can post replies to them with DISCUSSION_APPEND permission. DISCUSSION_MODERATE permission gives you rights to delete replies or topics where are you defined as moderator. DISCUSSION_ADMIN permission gives you administrator rights to create, modify or delete forum groups, forums and topics. You can add these permissions by typing following commands from commandline or you can use WebAdminPlugin to do it for you.

# trac-admin <path_to_environment> permission add <user> DISCUSSION_VIEW
# trac-admin <path_to_environment> permission add <user> DISCUSSION_APPEND
# trac-admin <path_to_environment> permission add <user> DISCUSSION_MODERATE
# trac-admin <path_to_environment> permission add <user> DISCUSSION_ADMIN

Macros

There are few wiki macros available:

[forum:<forum_id> <text>]

Displays link to forum with id <id> and text <text>. Second argument is optional.

[topic:<topic_id> <text>]

Displays link to topic with id <id> and text <text>. Second argument is optional.

[message:<message_id> <text>]

Displays link to reply with id <id> and text <text>. Second argument is optional.

[[ViewTopic(<topic_subject>)]]

Displays content of topic with subject <topic_subject>. If no subject given displays content of topic with same subject as name of current wiki page.

Example

Discuss this on the [forum:trac-dev Trac Development forum]. 
Useful threads are [topic:23 this one] and [topic:96 this one].

Testing

Because of that DiscussionPlugin code is growing up, I've made testing sheet for controling if some feature had't been broken sine last commits. You can find this sheet in plugin's SVN repository.

Feedback

Poll(Are you using this plugin?; Yes, it's usefull.; No, it's useless.; No, I don't need it.; I think it will help;)?

Change Log

17854 by rjollos on 2020-08-21 20:44:35
TracDiscussion 1.2.2dev: Make compatible with Trac 1.4+

Fixes #13877.

17713 by rjollos on 2020-04-30 01:50:36
TracDiscussion 1.2.2dev: Use authorinfo to format name in topic list

Refs #13778.

17637 by rjollos on 2019-12-19 09:35:13
TracDiscussion 1.2.1: Publish to PyPI

Refs #13659.

16775 by rjollos on 2017-08-26 03:49:19
TracDiscussion 1.2: Update copyright info
16671 by rjollos on 2017-06-19 05:05:51
TracDiscussion 1.2dev: Fix incorrect username in input fields

format_author should not be used in input fields.

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Author/Contributors

Author: athomas
Contributors: Blackhex

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