Dear lazyweb,
It would be great to have an extension for Thunderbird to help with bugmail.
For example, I often come to a bugmail and want to know what the current state of the bug is. Obviously, some info like the bug number and the title are already available from the mail. But it would be very cool if there was an extension which got the record for the bug from Bugzilla in real time then added a bar at the top of the mail which said e.g.:
Firefox / General | RESOLVED FIXED | Assignee: gerv@mozilla.org
or something like that. I often look at older bugmail and ask myself “Did I sort this out?” If the bug is now RESOLVED, I can say “yes, I did” and delete the mail without having to load the bug, switch to my browser, view it, see it’s RESOLVED, switch back and delete the mail.
Can someone write one, please? :-)
Hey Gerv,
Bryan Clark’s got something related, though not exactly what you want, but related to Bugzilla and Thunderbird:
http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/04/04/extending-bugzilla-links-in-thunderbird/
Seems like you’d miss out on editbugs-impaired users commenting that things aren’t really fixed….
Actually, I misread that, never mind.
Once the major kinks get ironed out of Ubiquity for Thunderbird, this will be really easy to do.
For reference, see: http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/i-remember-nowi-remember-nowwhy-they-called-it-thunderbird/
I’m writing an expository extension for TB trunk builds that will have a bugzilla account type. Once I get that finished, you can take it and hack off of that to get what you want.
Fabrice Desré implemented what you invented.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/9584