On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 12:35:14PM -0600, Steven Robbins wrote: > On Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:15:28 A.M. CST Steven Robbins wrote: > > I'm not receiving messages concerning bugs for most of the packages I > > maintain. Most of my packages are team-maintained, so my email appears only > > as the Uploader, not the Maintainer. I am beginning to suspect this is > > the cause of missing emails. Is it? Is there a global method to inform > > bts to send me email even when only an uploader? > > Thanks to Mattia for confirming my suspicions. Neither of the two options > presented, however, are appealing to me. > > 1. Subscribe to the Maintainer ML would produce an enormous amount of spam. > The maintainer is Debian-Science, which is listed in 790 packages, of which I > care about maybe 10.
And you have a nice way to mark those: you list yourself as an Uploader. Ie, I fully agree with your initial post. > 2. Subscribe through the PTS requires manual work for a few dozen packages > and > remembering to sub/unsub each time I add/drop a package. And we forgot this in almost all cases (speaking from my own experience). > I would prefer, instead, to suggest a mechanism to email uploaders. Would > that be best suggested to the bts software or the pts software? I'd say there's no need to complicate things by providing and opt-in/opt-out. If you don't care about a package's bug mail, keeping yourself as an Uploader serves merely to stack your package list. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Remember, the S in "IoT" stands for Security, while P stands ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ for Privacy. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
