[consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

[George Por]

Dear Sami Khan,

Thank you for sharing your insight about this, which sound promising.
 
> It's trivial to write a basic module, but not so to tie it to all the
> other infrastructure that's grown up around Drupal.

What negative consequences could it imply if the non-trivial part would
remain unaddressed?

> For instance, to 
> add a tag field you could easily use hook_comment to add the field and
> then create a term_comment table to store the cid,tid relationship.
> You could probably even do community tagging using similar method
> through hook_comment. Then you can simply theme it using the theme
> functions as long as you modify it to include the tags. Actually the
> whole damn thing is really trivial. If you want a module, I could cook
> one up for you... or any of the other great Drupal ninjas around here.

If it would let us add tags to comments, I'd be much interested in that.
William offered he can do something about taxonomy terms and you're talking
about tags. I don't understand everything you say cuz I am only a community
architect, not a geek. Given that we need both taxonomy terms and tags,
would it be possible that you and William collaborate on the project?

george 

 
> Quoting George Por <George at Community-Intelligence.com>:
> 
>> 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 group¹s 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 doesn¹t 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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