Annoyingly, it appears that the reporter is not automatically a watcher. It is incorrect that it is a strict degradation, but I agree that it is not a good change to make since it favors devs over users. I will chat with infra about whether we can set up the best case.
In the meantime, perhaps I'll create a separate account for filing JIRAs... Kenn On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:56 AM Davor Bonaci <da...@apache.org> wrote: > An INFRA ticket is needed. > > (As long as the report is automatically a watcher, the change is a strict > improvement. If not, it's a strict degradation.) > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Currently, every touch on a JIRA causes four notifications: >> >> - all watchers >> - current assignee >> - reporter >> - comm...@beam.apache.org >> >> I think there are redundancies and imperfections here. If you report a >> bug you cannot later unsubscribe from it! I may be disproportionately >> spammed here... I try to compensate with filters, but it is not easy to get >> the effect I want except by ignoring all JIRA. >> >> I propose: >> >> - all watchers >> - current assignee >> - iss...@beam.apache.org (any ASF member or PMC chair can set up >> quickly, yes?) >> >> This way, you can report bugs and unwatch them. And if you do want the >> firehose of issues it is trivial to separate from commits. >> >> I think this goes through INFRA ticket or maybe any ASF member or PMC >> chair can do the whole thing? >> >> Kenn >> > >
