This was an old suggestion for D5 #216955: User Tracking ... reinvigorating it for D6.

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seaji’s picture

This feature is done in 6.x-2.x version by me.
http://drupal.org/node/301632#comment-2717826
I'm ready to push 6.x-2.x version to git repository
What you think about it?

chipcleary’s picture

@seaji, reading the description, it looks like you have provided a number of helpful advancements in this version that would be great for the community to have. It looks like you have provided both some direct user-facing functionality and also some developer-facing functionality which opens up the module up with hooks.

My only question on how to move forward is whether we can we organize things to build on top of the current foundation instead of starting over (which already just happened). For example, from a site administrator's perspective, it would be nice to keep the same paths. Also, we should think through any major architecture decisions. For example, the original architecture used "questions" and "answers" that were separate content types. The current 6.x-1.1 kept that. Looks like your approach moves to question nodes and answers as comments to them. Seems like the choice is worth some thought.

I'm not entirely sure of the best way to proceed. My thought would be that you do proceed to push a "6.x-2.x-dev" version to make the code visible. I'd be happy to take a look at it and offer my views on whether to:

  • Structure it so that it builds on top of what's in 6.1
  • Structure it so that it integrates whatever features 6.1 has that it doesn't
  • Simply move to it

I can offer my thoughts back for discussion with the group and others can take a look and offer there thoughts too.

(Interestingly, I've just built out a Best Answer approach separately, which duplicates a feature you apparently had already coded. Sounds like maybe I could've saved some work!)

How's that sound?

seaji’s picture

@chipcleary sounds good.
I agree that we have to think on basic conceptions of the module.
Much has already been done by me and I do not want to bury this work. If something is really useful, I'll be happy.
Today I'll push 6.x-2.x-dev branch to repository.

chipcleary’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » chipcleary
Status: Active » Needs review
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I've taken seaji's approach to user profiles and integrated it into the current version of Answers.

Patch attached and has been integrated into 6.x-1.x-dev.

chipcleary’s picture

Status: Needs review » Closed (fixed)

No action for two weeks. Marking as fixed.