Malone issue

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 11:44 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> dean at deansas.org wrote:
> 
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> >> Why does Malone not automatically subscribe me to a bug when I reply to
> >> it?  It would make life much easier for casual contributors.
> >> 
> > 
> > It's a conscious decision - "Email should always be opt in"
> > (https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/977)
> > 
> > I imagine emailing the launchpad-users list may get you a more detailed
> > answer.
> 
> OK, I can understand that one should always opt-in to any email
> distribution, but I'd almost always want to opt-in to a bug I was involved
> with - so it should be a user option.

Exactly.  Every bug tracker in common use adds you to the cc: list when
you reply to a bug.  So I'd argue that the act of updating a bug IS
opting in.

The current behavior violates the rule of least surprise.

Lee