Malone issue

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 6/15/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

my recollection is that when that option was added to Launchpad, the
tick mark was on by default (i.e., you got subscribed to the report by
default if you added a comment).  It was then changed to the current
behaviour.  Look at the last comment in:
  https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/977



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Daniel Robitaille