Hi, * Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> [2009-09-10 17:03]: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:21:50PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> [090910 16:09]: > > > Do others feel we should enable emailing the submitter by default? > > > there are some reasons not to? > > > > But reporters are sacrifing some of their time to help us make our > > distribution better. Do you really think we should scare them away > > by rewarding bug reports by pulling the reporters in lengthy > > discussions how the bug is best fixed? > > This is subjective. I know of several bug reporters who would either > be happy to see that their bug is being dicussed/attended to, or even > be able to pariticipate in the fixing efforts if their technical > knowledge falls in the category of that bug. > > Just my view, I try to remember to Cc the reporter, but I'd much > rather prefer being subscribed to bugs as I report them. Same here. As long as we give reporters the possibility to unsubscribe theirself or provide two mail aliases one which includes an auto subscription and one which doesnt (or a question in reportbug...) this should be no problem. At least I _always_ use a group-reply and never got any complains back. Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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