On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:21:02PM +0000, 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.
For Ubuntu specifically the answer is to subscribe to the google-indexed ubuntu-bugs mailing list. For other projects maybe that's the right answer too -- by default we create a mailing list that holds all bugmail ever generated for you. > 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. I don't know if a number or graph can convey the actual problem, though. And it's a lot of work to find that out. > 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. Yeah, I actually proposed the collapsing above. But an easy fix is still getting rid of the Ubuntu [mis-]subscribers. Can we fix that before we do anything else? -- Christian Robottom Reis | [+55 16] 3376 0125 | http://launchpad.net/~kiko | [+55 16] 9112 6430 | http://async.com.br/~kiko _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
