Hi On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:00 PM, canyonknight <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Filed a task in case if somebody wants to take care of it https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34843
