[development] comments ip address

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Jakub Suchy wrote:
> Hi, 
> i would like to propose a patch to 6-x which will add an option to store
> IP address of comment author to the comment. I am looking for this
> feature quite some time now and i think that due to spam, IP address is
> very valuable resource when fighting it.
> 
> The only option how to accomplish this now is finding that IP in
> watchdog log, but it is deleted every X days...
> 
> Is it worth developing? (Is there a chance to be accepted?)

Considering that you can easily write a contributed module which stores 
the IP I don't think this is core worthy. There might already be a 
module which does this.

Cheers,
	Gerhard