<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Re: [consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Dear Greg and Sime, thanx to both of you for pointing to <a href="http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment">http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment</a> module. <BR>
<BR>
Dear Sami Khan and William, thank you too for the help you offered. If we run into trouble with the </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'><FONT COLOR="#00007F">nodecomment module, I may still come back to you.<BR>
<BR>
warm regards to all drupalistas on this great list!<BR>
<BR>
george<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"> <BR>
-<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT>
<P ALIGN=CENTER>
<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="2" WIDTH="100%"></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'><B>From:</B> consulting-bounces@drupal.org [<a href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org]">mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org]</a> <B>On Behalf Of </B>William Smith<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:49 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'> <BR>
The issue isn't so much that it can't be done, it is that it isn't likely to happen in core anytime soon. This is one of the great never-ending debates in the Drupal community -- should comments be nodes, or not? It gets heated, and it has played out many times. <BR>
<BR>
If you want the ability to apply taxonomy terms to comments on your particular site, it can certainly be done, and money can certainly buy it. If you need a developer, I may have some available time later this week as I wrap a couple of projects up. <BR>
<BR>
All the best,<BR>
William<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>On 8/26/07, <B>George Por</B> <George@community-intelligence.com> wrote: <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><BR>
</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#800000"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>This is message is to those brave souls who think that something can be done to fix a major limitation of Drupal design.<BR>
<BR>
I am talking about the fact that only nodes can have categories and tags but not comments. That means that a forum topic opener and blog can have them individual blog entries and topic replies not, makes those key modules largely useless from the perspective of growing the a group's capacity for collaborative meaning making. <BR>
<BR>
I talked with many programmers and they all said that adding rags to comment cannot be done in Drupal because of its architecture. Is it really so? No amount of money could buy developer time to fix that? If any of you have a serious proposal, we would consider it. <BR>
<BR>
When we used Drupal 4.6. And 4.7, we got that problem partially resolved by using flexinode to mimick a blog, and then we could add tags to the entries. However, we moved to 5.1 and, to my knowledge, flexinode doesn't work there. Can that be changed? <BR>
<BR>
Another workaround would be to use Moveable Type or another dedicated blog software and link the MT blogs fom our Drupal-based home page. However, in that case we would loose the handiness of one search command working on all content types at once. Any work around that? <BR>
<BR>
Best regards,<BR>
<BR>
george</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><BR>
_______________________________________________<BR>
consulting mailing list<BR>
consulting@drupal.org<BR>
<a href="http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting">http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting</a><BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><BR>
<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%">_______________________________________________<BR>
consulting mailing list<BR>
consulting@drupal.org<BR>
<a href="http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting">http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>