[Zope-CMF] Rating services - status?

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
08 Jan 2002 15:15:22 +0000


On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 14:47, Tres Seaver wrote:
> seb bacon wrote:
> 
> > I don't think anyone's done it yet, but for a simple score rating, it
> > wouldn't be hard to make a rating an attribute of PortalContent.  There
> > should be a better (component-style) way of doing this, but it would be
> > difficult without the projected events channel, IMO.
 
> I don't know that it needs an event channel;  I think ratings
> could be done via an indirection like that done for discussions:
> the discussion / rating would not (necessarily) be stored directly
> on the content.

Yes, but shouldn't discussions also be implemented as a service /
component, rather than an opaque attribute?  I've always felt
uncomfortable about how discussions currently work.

seb