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[Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 16:45 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> 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).

Still no solution agreeable to everyone after 2.5 year:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/81692
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/326636
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+spec/trusted-project-members
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+spec/project-affiliation

Anyone who provides just half a patch in the spirit of JFDI will get my
uninterrupted attentions to ensure it lands


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