Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters
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?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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