Comments on: Splinter – patch review for Bugzilla

By: Alexandre Franke

Alexandre Franke — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:27:53 +0000

This is indeed really cool, I’m looking forward to have it available for b.g.o.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:10:19 +0000

Neat idea. I think it would be pretty easy to do it either way – either package up Splinter as a Firefox extension (just have the page as chrome:splinter), or write a Greasemonkey script that lifted specific cross-site-scripting restrictions and allowed a splinter page to do AJAX requests against different Bugzillas. The Firefox extension method would likely be less hacky and easier to install. But for now, I think my focus is more on getting it to work well with a cooperating bugzilla instance where the maintainer is willing to install a Bugzilla extension.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:52:43 +0000

It will be interesting to see how that works out. I think there is some good integration that can be done between Bugzilla and Review Board but from the investigation I did, it wasn’t immediately clear to me that the sort of “captive” arrangement that you describe in that bug would be feasiable or desirable. Maintaining the workflow and user interface of Review Board and creating good bidirectional links and updating seemed more attractive.

By: Neil Roberts

Neil Roberts — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:37:12 +0000

This is very cool. I wonder if it would be possible to also package it as a Firefox extension or a Greasemonkey script so that you could use it on all Bugzillas without having to run the proxy server?

By: Max Kanat-Alexander

Max Kanat-Alexander — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:45:22 +0000

FWIW, I’m actually thinking of integrating Review Board into Bugzilla to replace PatchReader:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515210

-Max