Re^2: A non-voteable, user-updateable node? (nodetypes)

[tye]

Only gods may modify superdocs (usually by applying patches) and that is because a superdoc can run arbitrary Perl code. Whoever "owns" the superdoc determines who can view it (and thus cause the page to be rendered, running any Perl code embedded in it).

A note is a generic "reply" node. It is mostly a document plus a pointer to the node that it is in reply to and a pointer to the root node of its thread. How a note is displayed incorporates that extra information in the heading (plus you can vote a note up/down).

A scratchpad is two chnks of text (public and private) with some special association with the owner. Converting last hour of cb to a scratchpad would require SQL work and might produce interesting results for things like [pad://janitors] (or whoever was declared the owner), neither of which seems like a show-stopper.

Perhaps last hour of cb should just become a document (a basic node type that we have not recently created examples of but that many other node types are based off of). Note that a document would not be found by super search (at this time), which is probably a big draw-back to that otherwise simple proposal.

So, of those, scratchpad seems the least problematic (other than the initial conversion work -- but it may be that the public part of a scratchpad is actually housed in the document table and so conversion isn't even a problem).

(stream of consciousness)++; minor parts left as exercises for pmdevils intentionally

[jdporter]

it may be that the public part of a scratchpad is actually housed in the document table and so conversion isn't even a problem).

That is precisely the situation; so converting a note to a scratchpad would be trivial.

However, it does seem like making last hour of cb a document, rather than a scratchpad, makes some sense. I don't see any features of scratchpad which would bring any benefit in this case.
And converting a note to a document is dead trivial: simply change its type from 11 to 3. (Yeah, we'd orphan a row in the note table, but that's probably not worth worrying about one time.)

[tye]

Who do you want to own it? (Either you or a group, though an AccessRule probably works also.)

[jdporter]

That's a good question. I don't think it's worth making a new accessrule for, so one of the groups I'm in would be the way to go. But which one. While neither SDC nor pmdev seems like a perfect fit, I'd say that pmdev is a poorer fit than SDC, I'd go with the latter. But really, you're the boss, so I defer to your judgement.