On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:03:05PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes ("HEADSUP: mails sent to n...@bugs.debian.org are NOT > sent to the submitter"): > > This happens again and again... Quite a few maintainers don't seem to > > realize that mails sent to n...@bugs.debian.org are not sent to the bug > > submitter, and the bug tracking thus halts down completely when the > > maintainer asks for information only to the bot, and not to the human. > > When I decided that debbugs should work like this: > * The email environment was very different to today; > * I hadn't properly realised that a bug is actually like a special > kind of mailing list (although I sort of got most of the way there); > * I was overly concerned that submitters ought not to be troubled by > Debian-internal communications about their bug. > > Maybe this decision was right at the time, but I think it is wrong > now. I suggest we change it.
Hell yeah! While any change of this kind obviously can make people used to the old default unhappy, having 123456@b.d.o not notify the submitter is so unintuitive not only new users but even most of us who forget this keep getting caught. And having a bug stalled is much worse than an superfluous mail. Thus, let's move the current behaviour to 123456-maint@b.d.o or some such, and have 123456@b.d.o notify at least both the maintainer/uploaders and the submitter. The BTS is notorious for sending duplicates if there are multiple reasons someone should receive mail, but that deficiency shouldn't stop improvements. We could go further: I think GitHub got it right: by default, you get a mail if you're either the maintainer, the submitter, or have commented on the bug. The BTS already tracks "with mail from". The only snag I can think of is that there's currently no way to edit addresses of old mails included in the bug. Current procedure of subscribing to a bug is an abomination: you need FOUR mails for something that could be done by default. Meow! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11