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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:30:12AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 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.

Getting greasemonkey to use launchpadlib, there is a javascript client,
is something I've poked at unsuccessfully in the past.  However, I'd
still really like to make it happen.
 
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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com

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