On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:00:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes: > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:07:13AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> No additional me too messages are needed; I just wanted to wait to see > >> if there was some compelling objections before changing the default. > >> Since there haven't been any, I'll be implementing the fast version > >> (nnn@bdo and nnn-submitter@bdo always Cc: the submitter) and once I get > >> a chance to delve into EoC (or whatever I end up using) fix it > >> properly. > > But I think making further changes to let submitters opt out via EoC is > > *not* fixing it properly, and want to dissuade you from doing that :-) > As a general principle I think it should always be possible for people to > opt out of mail from any sort of automated or semi-automated system. I > think supporting opt-out is a good idea. But I think that if the > submitter opts out of receiving any mail about the bug, that should be > clear to the package maintainer so that the package maintainer knows that > follow-up questions will not receive a reply. > Maybe the best opt-out mechanism would be to clear the submitter field? I don't think this level of opt-out achieves anything. Perhaps owing to the existing BTS handling, I'm very conscious of whether a given message I write to the BTS should be seen by the submitter (and the answer is almost always yes). A submitter opting out of receiving mail isn't going to get substantially less mail from me, it's just going to make me work harder to send it to them by Cc:or bounce when I find their email address through the web interface. And if they make it impossible for me to send them follow-up mails (such as by rejecting the mail), I'll close their bug. We still have -maintonly for mail that /shouldn't/ go to the submitter; is there any reason not to tune -maintonly behavior to also include subscribers, if it doesn't today? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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