1248611 - Setting "never email me about this bug" is painful (hard for bug reporter to stop receiving mail about a bug)

Status: NEW

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: User Interface, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I was trying to find this option in the experimental UI today....  Looks like you have to scrol all the way to the top, click the "Edit" button, then scroll all the way to the bottom and check the checkbox.

I really wish it were as easy as the "Unfollow" button instead.  Possibly it should _be_ the "Unfollow" button if I'm the bug reporter, since in that case it's the only way to stop following the bug.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky [:bz] from comment #0)
> Possibly it should _be_ the "Unfollow" button if I'm the bug reporter,
> since in that case it's the only way to stop following the bug.

oooo, that's all kinds of awesome

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

In fairness, there are edge cases in which one could want to CC oneself on a bug that one reported, because the emails prefs are set differently for "reporter" and "CC list member"...  that makes things a bit annoying in terms of what the "Follow"/"Unfollow" button should do, I think.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Got bitten by this again today.  I had to look up this bug report to figure out where the checkbox lives now...

Comment 5

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Attachment: 1248611_1.patch

Comment 6

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

glob, I would like your feedback on this change as well if you have the time.

Thanks
dkl

Comment 7

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Comment on attachment 8817100 [details] [diff] [review]
1248611_1.patch

It looks like the stop following link doesn't represent the current state when you load the page. See video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9fu8KggTA

I also wonder if there is a cleaner way of doing this.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Got bitten by this again today...

Comment 9

[Kohei Yoshino]

This option can probably be merged with the Follow button (to be renamed to Subscribe in Bug 1533587) on the header, like the Watch button on GitHub repository.

Comment 10

[Kohei Yoshino]

(Well, that’s already suggested here.)

Comment 11

[Kohei Yoshino]

This is one of the few remaining legacy UI decommission blockers. I’ll try to finish it.

Comment 12

[Kohei Yoshino]

I think a tentative solution that can be implemented before retiring the legacy UI is showing the checkbox in the view mode, not just in the edit mode, then changing the page layout so it can be found easily.

You know, notifications are difficult to handle because we have component watching and many other settings. We are going to have web notifications as well. I’d like to see a simple Unsubscribe button with a short explanation of why/how receiving notifications like GitHub in the future.

Comment 13

[Kohei Yoshino]

Attachment: Screenshot of simple Subscribe button mockup

This is what I tried to create, but I’ve realized that it should say Subscribed if you’re watching the component or you’re the assignee of the bug, etc. so designing this kind of button goes beyond the scope of this bug.

Comment 14

[Kohei Yoshino]

I’ll reopen dup’d Bug 1317224 to show the “never email me about this bug” checkbox by default. I’ll keep this bug open so the idea of the Unfollow button can be implemented later.

Comment 15

[Kohei Yoshino]

And we need to consider cases like Bug 1121718.

Comment 16

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

I think the 'unfollow' button at the top of the show bug page implements this.

Please open a new bug if this change is not sufficient.

Comment 17

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No, that button does NOT implement what I am asking. For example, I can't "unfollow" this bug!

Unfortunately, the bug's summary also got changed to completely hide what the bug was about.

Reopening, and restoring the original summary, but please let me know if you really would prefer I just file a new bug that's a clone of this one.

To be clear, this bug makes me a lot less likely to open bugs on things I might not care about updates on in the future...

Comment 18

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Okay, I'll move back to NEW and put in our backlog.

Comment 20

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

The content of attachment 9381635 [details] has been deleted for the following reason:

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