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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM, James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

+1

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

+1

> 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.
>

Another approach would be to somehow intelligently highlight comments
that come from people trusted within that "project".

> 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.
>

I think something along these lines would be good.

Also, if we do it, let's make sure we do it for comments everywhere,
not just bugs.

jml