Posted by joshk on August 7, 2007 at 7:30pm
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| Project: | Organic groups list manager |
| Version: | master |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | joshk |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
I'm going to be taking another look at this module, and working on removing the hard dependency on og_forum. IMHO og2list should be able to process incoming mail as whatever node type an admin wants. For many og use-cases (e.g. groups.drupal.org), taxonomy is not what's used to contain general group discussion.
We wouldn't want to lose the og_forum functionality if present, but we would want to let new incoming posts function as story nodes, for instance.
Comments
#1
note that forum.module can hold any node type in D6 so this makes good sense anyway. thx.
#2
I totally agree, it should do any node type. Users have asked for it in our deployment.
Commenting to any node type works already - as long as og2list sends the notifications.
You'd just need to have an admin setting to choose which content type and have the hook_nodeapi $op=insert branch handle it properly in og2list (ie wthout forum/taxonomy stuff, but using taxonomy if the admin did select a forum type). I'm not too familiar with how that part actually works in detail but I imagine it can't be too hard.
Also I've had really bad luck trying to get the new og_forum to work - we tried to use it and there were heinous SQL cross products happening and bringing the server to its knees. (when the og2list dust settles I plan to revisit this but yeah - no dependency on og_forum would be great, as we are now stuck at the old 5.x-1.x verison).