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[James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed Oct 21 16:27:49 +0100 2009 Julian Edwards wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 October 2009 20:57:49 Martin Albisetti wrote:
> > Hello Launchpaderos and Launchpaderas,
> 
> Hello Duderino.
> 
> > - Being on a roll here, how about highlighting the reporters' comments? 
> >  His comments will most likely be very important.
> 
> On a similar note, how about adding the poster's icon next to the comment?

Again similarly, adding the user id of the user would be useful to many of us.

In Ubuntu development we have quite a few processes where some action is taken
because a developer said so in a bug. This is fairly fragile currently as anyone
could change their display name to "James Westby" and make requests posing as
me.

Some of us that process such requests use a greasemonkey script to display the
user id next to the comment, to try and alleviate this (though ~jamesw might
still be able to pose as me without being caught). In addition it displays
the emblems of some Ubuntu related teams when the person is in them, which
is even more robust, and their karma (not really useful here, but can be
useful in other cases).

It would be good to have this built-in. I realise that working out which
team emblems to show could be complex.

Thanks,

James