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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:09:14AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:48:50PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:27:32PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 02:52:56PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > > I'd like to give Geir my strong +1 for membership in Bug Control.
> > > > He has shown an impressive level of dedication and patience in dealing
> > > > with the influx of -intel bugs that we see.
> > > > 
> > > > Since we get so many bugs filed against X, a lot of the basic triage
> > > > work is automated.  Geir has been instrumental at the more advanced
> > > > level that really requires human intervention, patiently helping
> > > > frustrated bug reporters through tricky situations to gather the
> > > > necessary information, and in numerous cases helping guide the bug
> > > > towards a solution.  He has also taken an active role in establishing a
> > > > team-wide standardization of tags for X bugs to facilitate finding dupes
> > > > (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Tagging).
> > > 
> > > Would it be useful to have these be incorporated in the lp_buttontags
> > > greasemonkey script?  
> > 
> > Sure, although personally I use launchpadlib scripts for setting tags
> > these days.  Probably it would make sense to port lp_buttontags to use
> > launchpadlib.
> 
> I think I'm missing something here how would porting it to launchpadlib
> help?

Making it less slow, presumably.

> I think the advantage of the greasemonkey scripts is that it
> presents everything right there in your web browser and acts as a
> reminder of the commonly used tags to without having to load a wiki
> page.

Right, it'd still be a greasemonkey script, just that it would use
launchpadlib as its backend rather than javascript to load and save
another form.

Bryce