-Known issues with the [[plugins/comments]] plugin:
+# Known issues with the [[plugins/comments]] plugin
+
+## Unimplemented
+
+* Instead of just a link to add a comment, it could have a form to enter
+ the title, similar to the form for adding a new blog post.
+
+ > I'm not sure this is so useful? On Livejournal titles are allowed on
+ > comments, but very rarely used (and indeed usually not very useful);
+ > it's hard enough to get some people to title their blog posts :-)
+ > --[[smcv]]
+
+## Patches pending merge
+
+* If a spammer posts a comment, it is either impossible or hard to clean
+ up via the web. Would be nice to have some kind of link on the comment
+ that allows trusted users to remove it (using the remove plugin of
+ course).
+
+ > Won't the remove plugin refuse to remove internal pages? This would be
+ > a good feature to have, though. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > Here, FWIW, is the first ikiwiki comment spam I've seen:
+ > <http://waldeneffect.org/blog/Snake_bite_information/#blog/Snake_bite_information/comment_1>
+ > So that took about 10 days...
+ > --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> Implemented in my 'comments' branch, please review. It turns out
+ >> [[plugins/remove]] is happy to remove internal pages, so it was quite
+ >> easy to do. --[[smcv]]
* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which
should probably be shared
-* Previews always say "unknown IP address"
-* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID
+
+ > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple
+ > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more
+ > complex. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > There's still goto. You have a branch for that. --[[Joey]]
+
+## Won't fix
+
+* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on
+ pages matching a glob. Something like `comment(blog/*)`.
+ Perhaps postcomment could also be folded into this? Then the pagespec
+ would match both existing comments, as well as new comments that are
+ being posted.
+
+ > Please see [[plugins/comments/discussion]]. If I've convinced you that
+ > internal pages are the way forward, then sure, we can do that, because
+ > people who can comment still won't be able to edit others' comments
+ > (one of my goals is that commenters can't put words into each other's
+ > mouths :-) )
+ >
+ > On the other hand, if you still want me to switch this plugin to "real"
+ > pages, or if internal pages might become editable in future, then
+ > configuring lockedit/anonok so a user X can add comments to blog pages
+ > would also let X edit/delete comments on blog pages (including those
+ > written by others) in arbitrary ways, which doesn't seem good. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of
+ > some optimisations that assume only internal() will be used to match
+ > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]]
+
+## Done
+
* The default template should have a (?) icon next to unauthenticated users (with the IP address
as title) and an OpenID icon next to OpenIDs
+
+ > Done in my comments git branch, at least as a mockup (using the (?),
+ > {x} and {*} smileys for anonymous, OpenID and login respectively).
+ > --[[smcv]]
+
+ >> I've improved this to use independent icons from the wikiicons
+ >> directory (untested!) --[[smcv]]
+
+ >>> The new code produces links like /wikiisons/openid.png, which
+ >>> fail if ikiwiki is not at the root of the web server. --[[Joey]]
+
+ >>>> Sorry, I should have spotted that (the assumption failed on my demo
+ >>>> site, but the push to that site was when I was on the way out, so I
+ >>>> didn't have time to investigate). As a note for other ikiwiki hackers,
+ >>>> I should have used
+ >>>> `<img src="<TMPL_VAR NAME=BASEURL>wikiicons/openid.png" />`. --[[smcv]]
+
+ >>> I got to wondering if the icons are needed. On my comments branch
+ >>> (not master), I've dropped the icons and info can be seen by hovering
+ >>> over the author's name. Idea being that you probably don't care how
+ >>> they authenticated unless something is weird, and in that case you
+ >>> can hover to check. Does that make sense, should I merge it?
+ >>> --[[Joey]]
+
+ >>>> Yeah, go ahead. I preferred my layout with the author before the
+ >>>> comment - perhaps that's Livejournal's influence :-) - but I can always
+ >>>> edit the templates for my own site. As long as the default is something
+ >>>> reasonable and both layouts are possible, I don't really mind.
+ >>>> Minimizing the number of "resource" files in the basewiki also seems
+ >>>> a good goal. --[[smcv]]
+
+* Previews always say "unknown IP address"
+
+ > Fixed in my comments branch by commits bc66a00b and 95b3bbbf --[[smcv]]
+
+* The Comments link in the "toolbar" is to `index.html#comments`, not the
+ desired `./#comments`
+
+ > Fixed in my comments branch by commit 0844bd0b; commits 5b1cf21a
+ > and c42f174e fix another `beautify_urlpath` bug and add a regression test
+ > --[[smcv]]
+
+* Now that inline has some comments-specific functionality anyway, it would
+ be good to output `<link rel="comments">` in Atom and the equivalent in RSS.
+
+ > Fixed in my comments branch by d0d598e4, 3feebe31, 9e5f504e --[[smcv]]
+
+
+* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID
+
+ > Done in my comments git branch --[[smcv]]
+
+ > Not seeing it there, which branch? --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> Bah, git push --all is not the default... 'comments' branch now (I've also rebased it).
+ >> Sorry, I'm on mobile Internet at the moment... --[[smcv]]
+
+ >>> merged by [[Joey]] in commit 0f03af38 --[[smcv]]
+
* Should the comments be visually set off more from the page above?
Rather than just a horizontal rule, I'm thinking put the comments
in a box like is used for inlined pages.
-* Instead of just a link to add a comment, it could have a form to enter
- the title, similar to the form for adding a new blog post.
+
+ > I did put them in a box in the CSS... I agree the default template
+ > could do with visual improvement though. --[[smcv]]
+
+ >> I'll consider this solved by [[Joey]]'s changes. --[[smcv]]
+
+* One can use inline to set up a feed of all comments posted to any page.
+ Using template=comment they are displayed right. Only problem
+ is there is no indication in that template of what page each comment in the
+ feed is a comment on. So, if a comment is inlined into a different page,
+ I think it should show a link back to the page commented on.
+ (BTW, the rss feed in this situation seems ok; there the link element
+ points back to the parent page.
+
+ > done --[[Joey]]
+
+* One of Joey's commit messages says "Not ideal, it would be nicer to jump to
+ the actual comment posted, but no anchor is available". In fact there is
+ an anchor - the `\[[_comment]]` preprocessing wraps the comment in a `<div>`
+ with id="comment_123" or something. I'll fix this, unless Joey gets there
+ first. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > done --[[Joey]]