Re: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:22:50 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2011-10-29 19:00 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> I could be wrong, but I believe that you are automatically "subscribed"
>>> to bugs that you report yourself.
>>
>> You are indeed wrong. How did you get that idea?
>
> Based on past behavior of the bug tracking system. I always seemed
> to get updates. But maybe it's because the poster CC'd me. I agree
> with Walter Hurry, though. This should be the default behavior,
> or at least an option when submitting a bug report. It shouldn't be a
> manual process. Now I need to find all my own open bug reports and
> subscribe to them. Bummer.
I've read in the past a debian-devel thread (I think) about this and
there were developers who were opposed to auto-subscription for bug
reporters because they didn't want them to be "spammed" by every
reply. And, illogically, their response to this problem is that the
bug reported should be cc'd. I don't see why anyone would report a bug
and not want to receive follow-ups but if that's the way that the
BTS's developers want their software to behave, that's the way it's
going to be. You see that across open source - and I'm sure that you'd
see it across closed source if you had access to requests and how
they're dealt with.
The madduck script automates subscribing to the bugs that you've filed
for you. There's no need to do this manually.
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