First steps towards support for bugzilla.gnome.org
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:date: 2010-08-06T07:19:00
:category: computer
:tags: jetpack, firefox

After return from Guadec_ I was greatly encouraged by the interest
I've met there. I thought on the spot about making a specific child
object for Gnome bugzilla (similar to MozillaBugzilla), which would
liquidate unnecessary buttons from bugzilla. However, another request
I've got was from Luis_ and he asked me to get an ability to eliminate
unnecessary buttons so he can use bugzilla for his MoFo legal work
(which is an interesting idea in itself ;)).

In the end I have decided that it would be actually easy to keep all
business logic still in JSON file (and not having some
``if (this.hostname === "bugzilla.gnome.org")`` hardwired in the code).
So with the current (`git`_, unreleased) version you can add this bit of
code into configData of your JSON file::

   "killNodes": {
        "bugzilla.gnome.org": [
             "stocklinks", true
         ]
   },

and the script will kill element with id ``'stocklinks'`` upon the
startup. For Luis, instead of one string, it could be an array with more
IDs. So this is the current look of bugzilla.gnome.org in my Firefox

.. image:: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_de4d8QAtRzI/TFuaXoLYPLI/AAAAAAAAAsc/h7xi7usNXXk/s400/bts-gnome-first.png
   :scale: 66%
   :align: center
   :target: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_de4d8QAtRzI/TFuaXoLYPLI/AAAAAAAAAsc/h7xi7usNXXk/s1600/bts-gnome-first.png
   :alt: bugzilla page with eliminated unnecessary fields


However, while testing the script I found that bgo is still very heavily
modified (although apparently not `an obsolete one anymore`_) and my
script breaks somewhere. I have fixed one inconsistency (apparently,
``'mailto:'`` is not good enough for their email addresses ;)), but
there is still something which breaks generation of new buttons. I'll
work on it when I can.

.. _Guadec:
    http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/
.. _Luis:
    http://tieguy.org/blog/
.. _git:
    git://git.fedorahosted.org/bugzilla-triage-scripts.git
.. _`an obsolete one anymore`:
    https://lpsolit.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/please-upgrade/