On Mon Oct 26 21:21:02 +0000 2009 Tom Berger wrote: > Actually think that there are other legitimate reasons to subscribe to > all bugs. I like subscribing to projects wholesale just so that I > accumulate the bug mail in my gmail and can search for it there, for > example. Another use case is as a push channel for automated tools. > Launchpad doesn't provide any other way to receive notifications on > bug activity.
That's not true for Ubuntu. One of the subscribers to all Ubuntu bugs is https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs so it is possible to get this without the LP subscription for Ubuntu. I agree with your points for other projects. > I think there are two things that need fixing: > > 1. The subscription interface should make it very clear what to expect > in regards to incoming mail volume. It happens that users subscribe to > Ubuntu without realising what they're doing and then agonize about > getting so much email. Point them to the mailing list instead? > 2. The list of subscribers doesn't work well for bugs with a huge > number of subscribers. We'll have to come up with a better way of > providing this information. They are not useful on /any/ Ubuntu bug in my opinion. I'm pretty sure the only people that are subscribed to all Ubuntu bugs are those that are running scripts, those that want the archives, or spammers. All of these can use the mailing list. The list of subscribers is useful to me to know whether the person I want to read the bug is going to get mail about it. I have never wanted to know whether one of the people subscribed to all Ubuntu bugs was subscribed, as none of them appear to particpate in development. As far as I am concerned showing them on every bug page is a waste of perfectly good bits, no information is ever provided by them being there. The same thing pretty much applies to the package pages where subscriptions are listed. It's not useful to know that these people are subscribed to the bugs for that package through a subscription to every Ubuntu bug. They aren't going to deal with the bugs of that package with that mechanism. I would be happy if these subscribers were never presented in the lists. In fact I happened to ask jml the other day if it would be possible to do this. Making the change would save me a couple of seconds every time I look for someone in the list of subscribers to an Ubuntu bug. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
