In order to help both those who ask questions in a support forum environment and those who answer them, topics can now be given a resolution status. Moderators and the original poster are able to change a topic’s resolution state to “resolved”, “not resolved” or “not a support question”.
After the appropriate interface decisions have been made, resolution status will also be taken into account and reflected in the various default templates.
Why make this a core feature? Why not focus on making plugin hooks so this can be added afterwards?
The topic resolution feature was implemented with the following fact in mind: that bbPress is designed with the explicit purpose of creating a community around support.
However, the software is very much still in its infancy; it’s not even a year old. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome. Please join the bbPress Development mailing list and discuss away. In particular, if you’ve got suggestions about extending the Plugin API, that’d be great.
I agree with the first poster; why not allow this sort of information to be “metadata” like what was done with the user table and have a plugin interface interact with that data?
BTW, I’m not a fan of mailing lists; I don’t like my inbox any more cluttered than it already is. Any plans to set up an installation of bbPress on this site for development discussion?