Launchpad's +karma page

[Brian Murray]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 08:55:24AM -0500, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On 04/28/2011 01:38 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> > Every Launchpad user has a karma page[1] that sort of keeps track of their
> > activity in Launchpad.  During the Natty release cycle I took on a work
> > item of investigating to see if we could make that page more
> > informative.  Come to find out this isn't easily possible as the karma
> > table only includes information about the project, or distribution and
> > package where the karma was earned not about specific bugs.
> > 
> > When working on this though it occurred to me that I didn't recall the
> > use case for having the page be more informative.  Does anyone happen to
> > remember the use case?
> 
> One immediate benefit would be a direct way to follow one's most
> recent actions (mostly bug work), if we could link from karma to
> bug. I do remember we discussing this, I think during UDS-N.

We do have this feature of the lp_karma_suffix Greasemonkey script
(which is a part of the extension) that allows you to "Follow the bug
trail"[1] of a person by taking you to the Gmane archive of the ubuntu-bugs
mailing list.  [The ubuntu-bugs mailing list gets bug mail about all
public Ubuntu bug reports.]

Looking at this again there is actually a link to the bug trail from the
+karma page of a person.  I took a cursory look at searching for action
dates (found in that page's source) on gmane and didn't get any matches
but someone might be able to sort that out.  However, gmane is behind a
bit and the karma table doesn't say if the action was in Ubuntu or not
so this might just result in more confusion.

Perhaps making it easier to "follow the bug trail" of a person would
help.  Right now the link exists on an individual bug page and on
+karma, perhaps sticking it on people pages (so you don't have to click
the link to +karma) would help?

[1]
http://search.gmane.org/?query=&author=Ubuntu+QA%27s+Bug+Bot&group=gmane.linux.ubuntu.bugs.general&sort=date&DEFAULTOP=and

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Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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