Yipes, I changed the workflow for COREBlog2 and failed to notice that most of my previous posts went into a private state. Publishing them resulted in a weird ordering of posts. I still need to fine-tune coreblog's workflow, so Zarquon knows what'll happen then.

Anyway, not to waste a perfectly fine post ranting randomly about COREBlog, allow me to rant structuredly. This is a list of what I'd like to see in coreblog (typing caps gets old fast)  in the near future (i.e., I consider them to be bugs of some sort). I'll try to add these myself and submit them to the coreblog people.

• Proper workflows. Other people have come up with solutions to this problem, I'll study that a bit and try to find a flexible way to accomodate both single and multiple poster blogs. This should include optional moderation of comments and trackbacks.
  
• Hooks for spam handling (such as akismet, but allowing for arbitrary tools - hint, hint) in comments and trackbacks.
  
• Fix coreblog's annoying habit of sending trackbacks before the post is published, and every time the post is saved. BTW, does anyone know what the policy is for sending trackbacks (in the Real World)? Once, when the post is published? Everytime something changes in a published post? I'd favour the former.
• Adding categories while editing the post. Sometimes I tackle a new subject and only after writing the post do I realize I need a new category or two. I should be able to add these categories from the post itself, it's annoying having to save the post, then create each category individually, then go back to the post to add them. A simple textarea, one category id per line, should do the job nicely.

This is what comes to mind, at the moment. I'm sure more'll surface.

What would you like to fix in coreblog? I might just be in the mood to throw it in as well :)

Update: I just realized I'm not using the latest version of coreblog (I'm using 0.9b and there's a 0.982b since April 13). I'll upgrade and see if something on this list was addressed.

I've re-ordered my pet-project priorities to 1) fix coreblog; 2) refactor and test zzbot; and 3) continue refactoring, testing and turning nnebs into an actual spam filter (and not a spam filtering testbed). I've also decided to get involved in python (the interpreter) development and have started reviewing patches, let's see how I'll fit this into the aforementioned priorities.

I put coreblog at the top because I've found myself reluctant to post before fixing some of the issues I encountered. I'm upgrading Plone today as a first step to start digging into coreblog, so expect something on that front soon.

On the other hand, I just realized a nice side-effect of being unable to receive trackbacks: no trackback spam!

I still get the email warning, though, so that won't keep me comfortable for too long :)