[support] hierarchy constraint

[paola.dimaio at gmail.com]

We are implementing categories/taxonomy

Have created a few parent cats with relevant children and subchildren
Still working with the content architecture, and experimenting a
little on how to best balance a simple site structure and the free
tagging etc.

I have noticed that we can now post stories directly to the child
category, without any association being made to the parent category.

assume

INTERNET
-----------CONTENT MANAGEMENT
-------------------------------------OPEN SOURCE CMS
--------------------------------------------------------------DRUPAL

I can post a story directly to the 'drupal category' but it will not
appear (made visible, displayed, associated with)  the parent
categories.

I think this is wrong. I would like to suggest an (optional) feature
to provide a constraint to 'enforce the hiearchy' - in the
categories/taxonomy module, so that selecting a child category will
automatically result in all the parents to inherit the item by default

While an experienced 'editor' may be trained to carry out this manualy
as a routine opration wen posting  (tick also the parents), it would
be desireable to be able to automat that

Before I make this a feature request, I'd like to know what people think
thanks
PDM