[TYPO3-doc] Integrating "Disqus" on docs.typo3.org

[Bastian Waidelich]

Michael Stucki wrote:

Hi Stucki,

> [...] let me mention that the server team could provide any of these
> tools even if they are based on Ruby on Rails. That's just the same case
> for Redmine already, so don't consider this as a limiting factor...

That's great news, thanks for the input!


> [...] unfortunately, it appears to me like this topic is slowly fading
> out without any result.

I feared the same but frankly I don't really know what to do about it..
I had another look at the two suggested solutions and I'm not convinced 
that either one is sufficient enough for *.typo3.org in the current state:

Juvias' documentation is very limited but based on the README and a demo 
installation it seems that it is missing some key features:

* Flagging comments as inappropriate
* Voting
* Code highlighting
* Email notifications
* Extensible authentication
* Nested comments

I'm not 100% for all of these as the demo is so limited and when I tried 
to create a non-admin user I think I broke it..

Discourse looks quite promising to me but in their FAQ they state that 
it is "early beta software, and likely to remain so for many months".


Maybe you guys don't agree with the minimal feature set I suggested in 
the first post, but I couldn't find a different solution that covers it.
So I experimented a bit with the disqus API[1] and now the example shows 
how many comments there are for the current page *without transferring 
your data to the disqus servers*. In fact it should be possible to 
tunnel all interactions (display, create, delete, flag, ... comments) 
through a PHP script that talks to the API and no cookie whatsoever 
would be sent to a 3rd party.
But that would mean a lot of work (maybe not so much less than if we 
really implemented the whole thing ourself).


I happily help..
* ..by asking the association regarding legal implications
* ..implementing a solution (PHP)
* ..moderating comments

But my initial recommendation stays (using a 3rd party tool with 
opt-in/out to start with) and if there is no valid counter-proposal I 
don't know what to do about this.



[1] http://disqus.com/api/docs/

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