Hi,
I recently announced on the users mailing list that I had begun work
on both a plugin allowing Markdown syntax (in weblog entries in
v0.0.1, and in comments too on the master branch) and support for the
Defensio comment validator service.
I'd be grateful for any feedback you'd have! In the meantime, I also
have a couple of questions:
Markdown Plugin
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1. The static assets that the Editor UI plugin needs need to be copied
into
$ROLLER_INSTALL_DIR/plugins-ui/authoring/editors
I thought plugins-ui would be the best place for these assets (since
this is an "unofficial", experimental plugin), but is there another
convention I should be following.
2. It currently uses a JSP page to provide an AJAX preview of Markdown
formatting. I don't know if its considered bad practice, to be using
JSPs outside of an MV-Controller? Would it be better to create a
plugin implementing the RequestMapper interface instead?
(already implementing WeblogEntryEditor, WeblogEntryPlugin,
WeblogEntryCommentPlugin -- one more can't hurt!)
Defensio Plugin
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This isn't ready for prime-time just yet. As posted on the users
mailing list, I need to find a way report back to Defensio when
comments are manually marked as spam. According to Carl from Defensio:
"In order to make Defensio useful, you'll need to implement report-
false-positives and report-false-negatives. Otherwise, accuracy will
go down the drain very quickly. Announce-article is also very useful
to improve accuracy."
Does anyone have any suggestions for the best (read, "cleanest") way
to hook around when a comment is manually marked as spam? See here for
the lines in question:
http://pastie.org/private/klxq1gtar6dpczcjqgat4q
I need to think about this more? Something AOP - advice for
wmgr.saveComment?
Its too bad there isn't any easy way to do this with the existing
plugin API! I don't really want to patch Roller code to accomplish this.
Also, a plugins directory on the new Confluence Wiki would be great:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER
Cheers,
Alex
