Re: The BTS and bug subscriptions

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Jochen Voss:
>
>> Hi Goswin,
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:55:19AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>> subscribing [the initial submitter] is already the current way.
>
>> Really?  Since when is this the case?
>
> Just to stress Jochen's point: only closing a bug report automatically
> triggers mail to the initial submitter, unless something has changed
> very recently.  Developers must be careful to Cc: the submitters,
> otherwise they probably never receive the message.

You are right, my bad. Only closing gets send out to the submitter.

And with that in mind I'm very much for subscribing the submitter
automatically. Half the time I forget to CC the submitter when I write
something to a bug and I guess many other people forget that when
commentating too.

There should be a pseudo header that reportbug can add if subscribtion
isn't automatic. When submitting a bug one can't mail nnn-subscribe as
the number isn't known yet but it would be nice to do both in one go.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: sorry for doing a 180, I wasn't thinking clearly before.