By Toe on

pyromanfo put together quite a few forum-related patches a while back, but most of them aren't quite ready to go into core as it stands. I've spoken with pyro, and unfortunately he's burned out on Drupal work for the moment, and isn't planning to take them back up right now.

I'm considering moving my own forums over to Drupal, and pyro's patches address a lot of items at the top of my wishlist for Drupal's forum. If my PHP skills were up to it I'd take these patches up myself, but unfortunately they're not. So I figgure the least I can do is see if anyone else would be willing to pick up where he left off.

Obviously the main list of code he's submitted can be found via his track page, but here's some of the main ones:

Flexiforum - to allow any node type to be used on a forum
Patch doesn't apply to current CVS

Multipage Topic Links - if a thread is multiple pages, show "Page 1, 2, 3..." on the thread index page
Needs to be moved to pager.inc (probably also holds true for some of the below)

Comment Permalinks - currently links to a particular comment don't work if a comment isn't on the first page of the thread, this addresses it
Current patch doesn't account for comment threading

Comment New Link - like above, only for links to 'New' posts in places like thread indexes
Code needs review

Comment Multipage Goto - after a user posts to a second page of comments, this takes them back to that particular page
Current patch doesn't account for comment threading

Mark All Read functionality - lets a user mark all nodes or nodes within a category as read
Code needs review