On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 00:29 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 14:53 -0500, Chad wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> > > The only (potential) regression is that we did not apply previous
>> > > changes to Bugmail.pm, described as "Wikimedia Hack! Pretend global
>> > > watchers are CCs so we can use their prefs to for instance ignore
>> > > CC-only mails."
>> >
>> > Is there a reason for this? We had this hack in place to keep BZ
>> > from spamming IRC/wikibugs-l when only the CC list changes...
>
> So the aim of the patch was to completely omit bugmail in case of CC
> list only changes, in order to make IRC + wikibugs-l@ less noisy?
>
> 1) I assume this silently broke "The CC field changes" settings on
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email for everybody in
> the past. "Assume" because my time machine back to 4.0.9 is broken.
> 2) wikibugs-l@ is also set as "globalwatchers" ("who should receive a
> copy of every notification mail Bugzilla sends").
> After the Bugzilla upgrade wikibugs-l@ *finally* works reliably for me
> and seems to send ALL bugmail.
> Before I didn't receive bugmail anymore after wikibugs-l@ got removed as
> assignee of a report && when wikibugs-l@ was not listed either as
> default CC of the corresponding component (test example: bug 42226).
>

I don't know how your preferences were configured, but our hack
has worked as expected for years. The logic only happens to
@watchers[0], and all it does is set the default CC param for the
global watch user. No actual user preferences should be changed.

-Chad

[0] 
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=wikimedia/bugzilla/modifications.git;a=blob;f=bugzilla-4.0/Bugzilla/BugMail.pm;h=28f378ba80c7bbc91fe29b47e0ae0eb862e900b9;hb=99319f78d16bc15ef5bfa63135a95df5a102739d#l366

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