[consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

[William Smith]

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.

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.

All the best,
William

On 8/26/07, George Por <George at community-intelligence.com> wrote:
>
>  This is message is to those brave souls who think that something can be
> done to fix a major limitation of Drupal design.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> Best regards,
>
> george
>
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