[development] We need an outliner (was Time to remove poll module from core)

[Robert Douglass]

This all comes down to one point:

we need an outliner to rule them all: forums, book module, blogs... 
they're all just containers for (CCK) node types.

Sorry I haven't evaluated the Category module outliner... it might 
really be in the direction I'm thinking of.

--Robert

Jeff Eaton wrote:
>> I don't think demoting polls to a second class data type as 
>> an answer; a 
>> poll should be a node, but we need our blogs and forums to be able to 
>> accept more content types than just 'blog' or 'forum'.
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> I'm with Earl on this one. Blogs are not a *content type* even though we
> treat them that way in blog.module. They're a container, and (in most
> cases) a presentation style. "Blogs" should be able to accept weblink
> nodes, images, polls, journal entries, and so on.
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> --Jeff
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