Adding multiple notes (comments) as a timeline in units

[dwaynebailey]

Depends on:

• [x] #2274 Spec 'discuss a translation'
• [x] #2296 Make commenting an explicit action

See also:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627913

This was scrumdo story 152

Users want to be able to leave more complex comments then the simple single comment approach we use in Pootle now. However, they specifically don't want a discussion board.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627913

The users should be able to add comments with not much limitation. Thus we might want to distinguish between comments and discussion. This could be a panel implementation like you see in Wikipedia i.e you change to the Talk page. Some way to post comments to a cross-lingual discussion would be useful. The format then is simply one of convention, the user choose how to use Markdown syntax to flesh out their comments.

[friedelwolff]

We'll need a few more things before development on this can start. Things I am thinking of:

• Model: is this a discussion per unit, file or project? If per unit,
  • How do we identify a unit?
  • What happens if a unit disappears?
• UI/interaction: Where does the user find this? How much of it is presented at which time, etc. What kind of editing interface do we use?
• Do we want to generate events automatically for edits? (to show in RSS, email notifications, etc?) Do we keep history?
• Permissions. Who is allowed to do what to the discussion?