On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > * Don Armstrong > * Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:29:25 -0700 > > If you're interested in the discussion around this bug, you should > > subscribe to it. > > 1. There's a new feature -- subscribing.
It's actually not that new; Joachim and Pascal did the l.d.o side and I did the b.d.o side over two years ago now. > pros: while done, it's easy to follow bug's messages > cons: > - handled by another party: l.d.o; unneeded complexity > - subscribing have 2 stages with total 2/2 messages sent from > both sides > - unsubscribing -- the same This is a requirement for any subscription system, even if a message to a bug automatically causes you to be subscribed, as From is trivial to forge. I am interested in perhaps allowing people to confirm a subscription once, and then be able to subscribe to any bug using that same address without further confirmation (or perhaps with a GPG signature), but to date the code has not been written. > 2. Thus, here are two sides > - BTS maintainer > - package maintainer > and they have different experience and goals, while trying to > understand each other. In this particular instance, I'm sitting in both positions, because this bug is against debbugs, and I am both a BTS maintainer as well as a maintainer of debbugs. > > I'm open to adding a header to messages so that you can easily > > indicate your desire to be subscribed to a bug, and I probably > > will do that as soon as it's possible to get the subcription > > information off of l.d.o. > > I think BTS's `reply-to' rules must not be implied, but based on > some policy. That policy can be delivered from either `Cc', > `Mail-Followup-To' or both. The reply-to: rules are actually kind of silly, and probably will be junked once its easier to subscribe to bugs without confirmation. Plus, it's always appropriate for people to cull the Cc: list. Don Armstrong -- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
