Re: Bug email to Maintainer, not Uploader?
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 12:35:14PM -0600, Steven Robbins wrote:
> On Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:15:28 A.M. CST Steven Robbins wrote:
> > I'm not receiving messages concerning bugs for most of the packages I
> > maintain. Most of my packages are team-maintained, so my email appears only
> > as the Uploader, not the Maintainer. I am beginning to suspect this is
> > the cause of missing emails. Is it? Is there a global method to inform
> > bts to send me email even when only an uploader?
>
> Thanks to Mattia for confirming my suspicions. Neither of the two options
> presented, however, are appealing to me.
>
> 1. Subscribe to the Maintainer ML would produce an enormous amount of spam.
> The maintainer is Debian-Science, which is listed in 790 packages, of which I
> care about maybe 10.
And you have a nice way to mark those: you list yourself as an Uploader.
Ie, I fully agree with your initial post.
> 2. Subscribe through the PTS requires manual work for a few dozen packages and
> remembering to sub/unsub each time I add/drop a package.
And we forgot this in almost all cases (speaking from my own experience).
> I would prefer, instead, to suggest a mechanism to email uploaders. Would
> that be best suggested to the bts software or the pts software?
I'd say there's no need to complicate things by providing and
opt-in/opt-out. If you don't care about a package's bug mail, keeping
yourself as an Uploader serves merely to stack your package list.
Meow!
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