On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:21:07 +0200 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: > > I personally prefer not to be CCed on bug reports. I don't want to > > recieve any mail about a bug unless it is asking me to supply more > > information. > > So you *do* want to be CCed if the maintainer needs more information. > > Then there's one thing I don't get. > - if we change the default to "always CC", nobody is going to > explicitly CC submitters anymore; that's only logical, correct? > - you choose not to subscribe > - ergo, you will never see any requests for additional information > > How would you solve that problem within your proposal? I see auto-subscribe as mainly a convenience for the submitter. It won't solve the problem you mention. If the maintainer has a question specifically to the submitter, he will have to cc him. I don't see any other solution. > As I've mentioned before, IMO there is only one valid reason to > unsubscribe from BRs after we change the default, and that is if you > *already* receive follow-ups because > - the package has Maintainer set to a mailing list and you are > subscribed to that list > - you are subscribed to bug mails for the package through the PTS Well, others might have their own reasons. > I'm sorry that you consider receiving follow-ups an inconvenience, > but IMO the benefit of in general being sure submitters will get > follow-ups outweighs that. While I personally like to be kept updated on all bugs I file and would welcome an auto-subscribe feature, one has to accept the fact that others might not. I always find it very irritating if The System forces things on me because it thinks it knows what's best for everyone and regards me as a half-witted imbecile who is not capable of making his own decisions or anticipate their consequences. Therefore there needs to be an opt-out feature. And it should be clear how to opt out and simple to use. > It will also solve the problem that I've seen numerous times that CCs > from me directly get rejected by submitters through overly aggressive > spam filtering. (And yes, I do send out mails through my ISP.) No it won't. If there is no simple way to opt-out, the spam filter is the only solution to work-around what some might consider an inconvenience. Cheers, harry
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