Created attachment 13856
one click spam button

JavaScript that adds a button which says "SPAM", and implements the one-click-spam functionality in QueueView.

Note that it looks a bit weird in Firefox (top is cut off), but fine in Chromium using OSX 10.9.

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I guess that it needs to be added to the operations/software/otrs repo.

Created attachment 13876
v2

New patch sends the request asynchronously and hides the ticket after success rather than reloading the page.

Also it loads better.

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I have tested the proposed patch and found no issues. It works great. For reference, my UA is as follows:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0

I would support enabling this as soon as possible, of course pending further confirmation/testing and review.

Andre: who should be assigned to this bug report?

(In reply to comment #5)

Andre: who should be assigned to this bug report?

Jeff Green is already CC'ed (who sometimes helps out with OTRS patches); Philippe would be the PM here, kind of.

philippe wrote:

Sure, you can add me as the PM, but I don't think I can actually do much here. As I understand it, we're looking for someone who can add the patch - that's not me. And I have no control over the engineering resources. :)

(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #3)

Created attachment 13876 [details]
New patch sends the request asynchronously and hides the ticket after
success rather than reloading the page.

legoktm: Could you put that patch into Gerrit against http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fsoftware%2Fotrs.git/HEAD/patches%2F50-one-click-spam.patch ?

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(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #8)

legoktm: Could you put that patch into Gerrit against
http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fsoftware%2Fotrs.git/HEAD/
patches%2F50-one-click-spam.patch ?

Well, it's not really a patch to the software, so I'm not sure that makes sense.

FWIW, in OTRS I usually use bulk actions after mass-checking the spam mails with an extension like https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/checkfox/

(Probably obvious to many but not to all and I don't know where else to post it. Originally suggested to me by Frieda many years ago.)

This JavaScript 'fix' is basically the equivalent of fixing a MediaWiki core bug with a default-on gadget. It's not a patch for the software itself. It could also be a lot simpler than it currently is.

(In reply to Alex Monk from comment #11)

This JavaScript 'fix' is basically the equivalent of fixing a MediaWiki core
bug with a default-on gadget. It's not a patch for the software itself. It
could also be a lot simpler than it currently is.

First, I don't know JS that well, and put this together by just messing with my browser console. Please improve it :D

Second, I agree with your analogy. But in this case, I'm not sure this is totally a bad thing. I think we should evaluate it based on:

a) How important is this feature for OTRS agents (https://otrs-wiki.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Upgrade_issues#Can.27t_get_rid_of_spam_as_quickly).
b) How likely we're going to be able to get someone (who??) to write this properly as an OTRS extension (if those exist??).

RD or another OTRS admin can probably answer a), I don't know who would be able to answer b).

Occasionally, we do hotfix hacks in site-wide JS/CSS which really should be done server-side, but the caveat is that those are promptly fixed in a proper manner. If we do deploy this JS script, it's even more unlikely it would ever get a proper fix. But being realistic, I doubt anyone is ever going to fix this properly to begin with.

Created attachment 16667
OTRS 1 click spam button JS gadget

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In T56755#1051229, @Keegan wrote:

Let's do this at the Wikimania 2015 hackathon. I just need someone or two that knows Perl and is wiling to dig into OTRS's code.

Let us know when you find them.

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@Rjd0060, are you planning to work on this task at Wikimania?

@Qgil No one is currently interested in working on this that I mentioned it to.

In T56755#1435590, @Keegan wrote:

@Qgil No one is currently interested in working on this that I mentioned it to.

Maybe a payed staffer can fix it?

No idea, but I will add it to the backlog of Community-Tech so they are aware.

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@Rjd0060 I guess this is still a problem? Was there any progress at Wikimania?

Also, I wonder whether OTRS is within the scope of Community-Tech. @DannyH, do you know the answer?

@Qgil A new patch still needs to be created, likely for OTRS v 5 which is what we plan to upgrade to.

In T56755#1765332, @Qgil wrote:

@Rjd0060 I guess this is still a problem? Was there any progress at Wikimania?

Also, I wonder whether OTRS is within the scope of Community-Tech. @DannyH, do you know the answer?

Frankly, the biggest blocker for OTRS development (not upgrades/database management) is that OTRS is written in Perl, and from what I understand it's fairly ugly Perl, and therefore most developers have not been interested in spending time hacking on it for our own customizations.

@Qgil, not possible for Community Tech right now. Perl makes it too complex for our team to handle, unless there's a groundswell of support for it in the wishlist survey.

See https://github.com/Matthewrbowker/otrs-oneclickspam - I am open-sourcing it. I haven't done much work, I have been spinning up an AWS test instance to work on.

Can't you use a wikimedia labs instance for this instead of paying amazon?

I was not aware that this was an acceptable use for WMF labs, my apologies.

Well if you're working on it to help Wikimedia's OTRS, I would expect it to be?

Set up, http://otrs-oneclickspam.wmflabs.org/otrs/index.pl is my test space.

Git repository is https://github.com/Matthewrbowker/otrs-oneclickspam.