On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> In any case, I'd like to challenge reapplying this patch, because:
>>
>> 1) Don't set wikibugs-l@ as globalwatchers if you don't want it to
>> receive all bugmail about all changes.
>> 2) If you want a certain account to not receive email in case of
>> changing X in Bugzilla, edit the accounts's "when to send mail" settings
>> in Bugzilla to not to send bugmail in case of only changing X.
>> Obviously this interferes with 1) currently.
>
> Wikibugs-l is for technical people that follow it for the bug
> information, not for "Joe Blogs [added/removed] himself from CC" and
> CCing doesn't provide any information that is needed for that list,
> That is why its hacked out. Wikibugs not receiving it is a bonus since
> it just reads the wikibugs email list and spits it out.
>
> Global watcher is the best option for what we want, Because it always
> covers the bugs and the only other option really is rely on wikibugs-l
> being added to the cc list which wasn't a reliable method at all (was
> used before GW was enabled/present).
>
> Can you propose a better option for this than defaulting the cc'er as 
> wikibugs?
>
> I doub't there are that that many people that want the wikibugs-l list
> to receive a copy of every single change (Eg: cc changes) to the bug,
> But that is probably a discussion for another thread.
>

This. We've had this working for years as-is, and I don't
see any consensus to change it (as long as it's continuing
to work as expected).

-Chad

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