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Tim Hicks, on 2006-10-31:
> Reinout van Rees wrote:
>> One thing, from the top of my head, *is* a quills problem: the
>> permissions to create the on-the-fly 2006/10/31-like folders. Not sure
>> if that's right. 
>
> My recollection is that a cut-and-paste operation is performed that 
> moves the entry from the weblog root to the new archive home.  Unless 
> I'm mistaken, this cut/paste needs to give the user the delete 
> permission, and so allows them to delete all other weblog entries in the 
> weblog root.
>
> Getting rid of the cut/paste operation (by faking traversal) means we 
> wouldn't need to grant the delete permission, which should make life 
> marginally better for Michael, I think.

I'm thinking about putting some time in here, but I have no idea where
to start.  Is there another product that fakes traversal?  A working
example is always useful.  The last I found on improving this part of
Quills is from tvon in April this year:

http://dev.plone.org/collective/log/Quills/branches/tvon-flat-btree-weblog

But that only removes some code and doesn't yet do anything
traversal-like.


Personally, I want to move my own ZMI-made Zope 2.7 blog to Quills.  I
would like to keep using weblog/year/month/entry-title instead of
weblog/archive/year/month/day/entry-title.  Maybe I'll just throw in
an Apache rewrite rule to redirect weblog/200x to weblog/archive/200x
and solve half my problem.

For the other half of the problem: I'm thinking about monkey patching
createPath in WeblogArchive.py to not create the 'day' archive folder.
Are there better ideas?


One other thing: I notice that WeblogArchive only has WeblogEntry as
allowed content type.  Does it not make sense to also have
WeblogArchive as allowed content type?  I mean: the WeblogArchive 2006
*does* actually have WeblogArchive 11 (November) in it.  Apparently
Quills works around this while creating a WeblogArchive tree when
publishing an entry.  This bites me a bit when I want to add some of
my old entries and want to put them in the correct archive folder,
e.g. 2006/04 instead of the folder for today.

I can always temporarily change portal_types to allow WeblogArchives
to be manually added to other WeblogArchives of course, but I wonder
why this is not done always.  Hm, well: I guess that giving users the
option to add WeblogArchives themselves (possibly called say
'November' instead of '11') could make a royal mess of the archive. :)
And I guess this just means that the Fake Traversal idea is... a good
idea. ;)

Oh well, I probably want to spend some quality time studying some
migration code from my brother. :)

http://vanrees.org/weblog/archive/2006/01/16/from-squishdot-to-quills

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