117928 - ability to not get mail when certain users comment

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's a sad fact of life that some bugzilla users make no useful comments.  It 
would be nice to be able to not get mail when they comment.  For bonus points, 
it would be nice to not get mail when they comment but _only_ if you're cced or 
voting.  If you own the bug you want to get even the useless mail....

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Perhaps the best solution here is an X-Bugzilla-Changer header that can be
filtered.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Changing default owner of Email Notifications component to JayPee, a.k.a.
J. Paul Reed ([e-mail]).  Jake will be offline for a few months.

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

This might be a little tricky without some facility to determine that nothing
else other than a comment has happened.  We should probably have another header
for that.

Comment 4

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

See also bug 117928 (Ignoring certain bugs even if CCed).

Why don't we expand this to be more than just comments? What if some user
attaches a bunch of useless things (i.e. splash screens).

Maybe it might be good to allow you to configure different ignore settings using
boolean descriptors. We could add an advanced field to the Mail preferences that
 allows you to tweak them more:

i.e:

ignore:(bug:44096 AND (user:[e-mail] AND (comment AND CC OR attachment NOT
(override:CC OR vote))))

Would ignore user [e-mail] when he sent a comment and a CC and when he
made an attachment, but would not ignore him if he adds only a CC (even if it
overrides the basic mail prefs) and also not ignore him if he voted _unless_ it
overwrote the normal mail prefs. It would also ignore anything from bug 44096.

If we keep adding fields to the regular mail prefs, its probably gonna drive us
crazy. It might be better to keep it simple and provide a more powerful way of
filtering emails.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bugzilla 2.20 feature set is now frozen as of 15 Sept 2004.  Anything flagged
enhancement that hasn't already landed is being pushed out.  If this bug is
otherwise ready to land, we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis, please set the
blocking2.20 flag to '?' if you think it qualifies.