Greasemonkey Stock Replies Update

[Brian Murray]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:40:02AM -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:17:50AM -0800, Mike Rooney wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I blogged[0] about this the other day but think it is useful enough that
> > > an e-mail is in order too.
> > >
> > > Kees and I have updated the Launchpad Greasemonkey standard reply
> > > script[1] so that common standard replies are pulled in from a central
> > > location[2] on a regular basis.
> > >
> > > I've added the majority of the responses from the wiki[3], however if
> > > your favorite one is missing file a bug about the Launchpad Greasemonkey
> > > Scripts project[4] and I'll get it added.
> > >
> > > I hope this makes triaging bugs a bit easier!
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks, this is an excellent usability improvement!
> 
> Great, I'm glad to hear it!
>  
> > Two questions:
> > 
> >  - Is there any plan to consolidate a lot of the popular scripts (such as
> > this, karma, button tags, patches) into an extension which could be
> > installed via a package, and included in qa-tools or something? Having
> > multiple computers, and fresh installs of release+1 alphas/betas and such,
> > often means I forget to install these or have them out of sync with the
> > latest in VC.
> 
> I personally don't know anything about writing Firefox extensions so
> don't have any plans to do it, additionally I believe a fair bit of work
> is need to convert a greasemonkey script into an extension.  However,
> maybe we could get them into the ubuntu-qa-tools package and have the
> scripts installed somehow.
> 
> >  - It would be neat to have variables such as %n that would automatically
> > change to the persons LP username, to create more personal messages so they
> > don't seem so impersonal. I change all my messages to include the persons
> > name but having this included could be cool as well. Does anyone else do
> > this?
> 
> I'd really like to rewrite the greasemonkey scripts to use the
> javascript version of the Launchpad API but haven't made any headway
> here.  If they were updated to use this API I imagine it'd be easier to
> grab the reporter's name and have it inserted via a variable.
>  
> > And, and a third question :) If I change a message, will it get overwritten
> > on the next XML update?
> 
> If you locally modify a standard reply that exists in the XML file and
> then pull the standard replies it seems (I had to test it myself) that
> your modification will get overwritten.  This might be the right thing
> to do since if you are making changes to a standard reply it should
> probably exist in the XML file - right?

Oops, I take that back.  I now have a 2nd response with the same name,
since I didn't change it, but with different content than the one in the
XML file.  Clearly this is the part Kees worked on!

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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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