On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Allen Li <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:08:52AM -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick >> > >> > Just do a goddamn filter in Gmail. >> >> Yes I am aware of filters (I worked in Gmail UI team btw). I already >> have 300+ filters and I hate to add more, especially for one-time >> notifications. >> >> Forcing everyone to create a filter for aur notifications sounds wrong >> to me. Most people just will not do this. And I think "invisible" >> message by default + people's laziness to create filters is the reason >> why it is more difficult to get a package maintainer response via >> comments rather than via personal email. >> >> Most web sites (such as forums) known to me send notifications "to:" >> user exactly for this reason - make these messages visible by default. > > I personally don't have any objections either way, but is there a reason > *not* to send notifications directly to the user? Sure, there are ways > around it (filters for Gmail) , but why make it an issue in the first > place?
AUR notifications are sent as a single e-mail to all subscribed users to avoid having to send each and every subscriber a separate e-mail. They are sent as a BCC to avoid having every subscribed user e-mail address in the "To" field. I believe the Arch bugtracker works the same way, so it's not something completely unique to the AUR. > > Just my $0.02 > > Allen
