On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:32:42PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:14:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>>>> The owner of a bug (set by command "owner" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) doesn't >>>> get mail sent to the bug, the same way that the package maintainer >>>> does. This happened to me on bug 325704 . >>> You mean that you think the owner of a bug should get subscribed >>> to the bug by default? >> This would be one way to do it. But then you don't know whether you >> want to unsubscribe him if the owner changes. Another way would be >> having him get the messages the same way the package maintainer >> does. > Right, but generally someone who would be setting themselves as the > owner of the bug is someone who is already receiving every single mail > that the package maintainer gets. [Ie, it's typically used in the case > where a package is maintained by multiple people and one of them takes > responsibility for a specific bug.] > I submit that in the general case, people who are setting owner should > either already be on one of these lists or subscribed to the pts. I see. #325704 gives a scenario where this isn't true. >>> Since you can subscribe to the bug so trivially, I don't see why >>> you wouldn't just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at >>> the same time you sent mail to owner if you wanted the mail and >>> weren't already subscribed to the bug. >> Principle of least surprise. Obviously, if you *know* of the >> misfeature that you won't get copies of bug mail, you'll subscribe >> and it is easy. But it is easy to just set the owner to yourself and >> then miss additional info sent to the bug. > Yes, but sending multiple copies to people who are subscribed to the > bug, in the maintainer list, and/or subscribed to the PTS is just as > bad, if not worse, since there's no way to fix it. OK. It is a trade-off. I understand your position. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
