I fully agree with Mojca: 2016-11-03 9:46 GMT+01:00 Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org>: > On 3 November 2016 at 09:30, René J.V. Bertin wrote: >> >> 1- Do you agree there is no need for (this many) notifications concerning >> changes to attachments (= you never missed it)? > > No. I have always been annoyed by the fact that some users (me > included) uploaded an attachment and then I had to tell everyone > explicitly that a new attachment was there, and some users (me > included) forgot. > >> 2- Do you agree that there should be control over which attachment changes >> trigger a notification (e.g. only for new attachments)? > > My opinion is not so strong here, but I'm inclined to say that it's > usually interesting to know about a replaced attachment as well. > Someone would complain about all the things that are wrong in the > attachment, the submitter fixes the problems, but then nobody is aware > that those things have been changed. > >> 3- Do you agree that ideally this should be a per-user setting? > > This cannot hurt, but as you said this is not up to us to implement > and you should ask upstream. > > The only "problem" with per-user setting is that: > - if notifications are turned off for everyone, almost everyone is at > least aware that an additional note has to be sent to let everyone > know the attachment has been added or modified when some important > change has been made > - if notifications are turned on for everyone, no such messages are needed > - if this would be per-user setting, users uploading attachment might > get more confused about whether or not to leave an additional comment > like "I have implemented everything you asked for, I guess this is now > ready to be committed" (or anything else). And then people might end > up with three notifications (attachment deleted, attachment added, the > additional comment by the user) or no notification at all. > > Mojca
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