[Zope-PTK] RIPP Discussables

Kevin Dangoor kid@kendermedia.com
Mon, 1 May 2000 19:26:15 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com>
To: "Dan L. Pierson" <dan@sol.control.com>; <zope-ptk@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] PTK work areas


> Actually, this isn't quite what I'd suggest, as a needless proliferation
of
> Racks would result.  The approach recommended by the RIPP model would be
to
> have Discussables delegate storage of their responses to a shared
> Specialist object (formerly known as an Implementor) which would then have
> a Rack where the responses were stored.  The Discussable would have some
> kind of thread key it used to identify itself to the Specialist, which
> would then retrieve posts that were relevant to it.

Not sure I like "RSPP" as much as "RIPP". It's harder to pronounce :)

On a more serious note, how would you implement categories of messages?
Would there be a sort of "root message" for the category that everything
hangs off of and then you have a discussable object for the category that
requests that thread?

I'm still working on shifting my thinking to the RIPP model, because I think
it is a very powerful model, particularly for Zope, in which some storage
methods will work better than others for certain things.

If each Specialist has its own search routines, how would one go about
implementing a site-wide search? I guess the Racks could all register their
objects with a specific catalog for easy searching...

Kevin