On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:51:43AM +0100, Graham Binns wrote: > > Agree, the statement is basically "bug 111147 says that Jane Doe > > changed me to confirmed/medium". > > > > This also works better if you eventually want to batch up multiple > > minor actions by multiple people. > > > > This would also give us a consistent fix for the problems of the > > reporter's name being absent on the first mail in a thread, or when > > the bug is retargeted into your subscription. > > I like this solution, and I'm not sure why I didn't think of it in the > first place, frankly. > > So, the question is: is this something that we're happy to standardise > on?
So, to give my thoughts on this issue. We should certainly standardise, so that all e-mail notifications from Launchpad follow the same style. Extending BaseMailer to do this would be good. As to what to standardise on, that's yet to decide. I wouldn't change the way e-mail notifications look drastically, before talking to people that deal with a lot of bugmail. I suspect that they might not be too happy about us breaking their current workflow, so we should only do it if it makes a whole lot of sense. As to my personal preferences, then I think having the name of the person triggering the notification in the From header is really useful. I would hate seeing us remove that useful information and replace it with useless information. I don't care much whether the user's e-mail address is used, or the bug address. I don't think being able to easily reply to the user out-of-bug, or messing up people's address books are strong enough reasons not to do something. They are minor issues. If we go for the bug address, adding something like "(via Bug #XXX)" would be a good idea, to make it more clear. I would like to see the bug address in the To header, though, since it makes it more clear that the notification is sent to all bug subscribers, not only to me. As for the additional e-mail header you were planning to add, I think it's a good idea, but I agree with Robert, that it shouldn't be called -Sender. That gives the impression that the person did indeed send the mail himself. -- Björn Tillenius | https://launchpad.net/~bjornt _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
