Re: mail to 123456-quiet@bugs.debian.org
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:01:01PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:53:05AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:23:45PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 14:21, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> >>> This problem would not exist if mail to the xxx@bugs address
> >>> reached the submitter as well.
>
> >> A lot of bug submitters would probably like being automatically
> >> CC'd on updates to the bug; that's how Bugzilla does it.
>
> >> But then again some might not; we would have to supply a way to
> >> turn it off.
>
> > It is filed; the main reason it hasn't been done is as you say, that
> > we'd have to supply a mechanism to turn it off, which implies
> > per-submitter configurability, which rather suggests people having
> > accounts
>
> Alternatively, one could do this with the PTS. It would probably make
> it a per-bug opt-in feature, but I guess adding per-bug subscriptions
> to the PTS will be less work than adding this kind of configurability
> to the BTS.
>
> It reeks of mixing two different things, though: The PTS wouldn't be a
> *package* tracking system any more.
I suspect the proper thing to do is to add a tag to the bug.
Then, if the submitter wants to be notified:
Package: hello
Version: 21.3-2
Severity: critical
Tags: notify-submitter, patch
Simon
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