935517 - Should be able to optionally link to mozillian page in profile

Status: NEW

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Extensions, enhancement, P5)

Description

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

The new user profile pages are great, but it would be even cooler if one could also specify a mozillian profile that these pages could then link to. Would make it much easier to find out more about a specific person.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

i thought we already had a bug for this -- evidently not :)

implementation notes:
  - make sure the field is lazy-loaded (like securemail's public key)
  - field should be added to the account-information preferences tab, and edited there
  - add to the user profile only if supported
    - add a link to the account-information tab when viewing your own profile to make it clear how to set it

Comment 2

[rgfhv]

(comment removed)

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

An alternative implementation would be to get Mozillians finally to implement an API for getting a single result for a search, and then simply add a "(?)" to each comment or other reference to a user which, when you mouse over it, loads:

http://mozillians.org/search?bugzilla_email=[e-mail]&format=compact

in an in-page pop-up <iframe>.

Mozillians would return a fixed-size (or at least, fixed-width) HTML page from that search which gave details of the person concerned - name, photo, description etc. This would encourage more people to sign up for Mozillians (because if they hadn't got an account, it would say "no information available") and would put Mozillians data in a usefully-accessible place for Bugzilla users, without requiring any more loads on pageload.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

It'd be nice if the connection went both ways. We could award badges to mozillian accounts who report security bugs, for example.