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, organised to forum groups. Users can create topics in forums and reply to them which together creates discussion threads. Threaded or flat view to topics and its replies is supported. Each forum has a list of moderators who can delete topics, replies, etc. Plugin is administrated directly or via WebAdminPlugin with apropriate rights. Appending new forums and topics either as new replies shows up in timeline. Searching capability in topics and replies is supported too.

Live Example

To get an idea how the forums look, see ​BlackTrac discussion.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for DiscussionPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a ​new ticket but read BugReporting page first, please.

Download

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

Source

You can check out DiscussionPlugin from ​here using Subversion, or browse the source​ with Trac.

Dependencies

DiscussionPlugin depends on WebAdminPlugin since many configuration options are available only on appropriate WebAdminPlugin's pages.

Plugin Versions

As many other plugins in this site even this plugin names its branches according to Trac versions. Here is a simple table explaining this convention for DiscussionPlugin:

Plugin Branch	Trac Branch	Plugin Version
0.9	0.9-stable	0.5
0.10	0.10-stable	0.5
0.11	trunk	0.6

Main difference between 0.5 and 0.6 version is that 0.6 uses Genshi templates and 0.5 ClearSilver ones.

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]

# For 0.11 branch. API object is component since then.
tracdiscussion.api.DiscussionApi = enabled 

tracdiscussion.admin.DiscussionWebAdmin = enabled
tracdiscussion.core.DiscussionCore = enabled
tracdiscussion.init.DiscussionInit = enabled
tracdiscussion.search.DiscussionSearch = enabled
tracdiscussion.timeline.DiscussionTimeline = enabled
tracdiscussion.wiki.DiscussionWiki = enabled
tracdiscussion.notification.DiscussionNotifyEmail = 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. Currently there is a limitation of post length using this macro because of using GET method of HTML form.

Example

Discuss this on the [forum:5 Trac Development forum]. 
Useful threads are [topic:23 this one] and [topic:96 this one].

Planned Features

• Better permission system (maybe using 0.11 permissions policies).
• Better email notification. (make notification a component and more configurable)

Notes

• Branch 0.9 of plugin is considered as deprecated and not developed anymore.

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: Blackhex
Contributors: athomas