15945 - Interaction between voting and dependencies in sending email

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Email is sent at strange times for bugs with dependencies that are voted on.
The problem is that a vote does not cause email to be sent, but it does add the
voter to the cc: list (explicitly in the text used for email diffs, but not in
the bugzilla form).  However, if a dependency of the voted bug is modified, the
text for the voted bug is rebuilt to see if email should be sent.  Since the
text has changed, this causes email to be sent listing the voter as added to the
cc: list.

That is, when I voted for bug 10593 and then commented on bug 11992, the change
to bug 11992 caused mail to be sent for both bugs.

The only way I see to get around this would not be to list the voters explicitly
anywhere in the text file used for comparisons and email diffs.

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Yes, this is certainly a problem.  I think, although can't prove, that I've been
added to a cc list I was on a second time because of this.

Comment 2

[Terry Weissman]

Yes, you diagnosed the problem exactly.  I think I have finally fixed it.  The
email stuff is just too disgusting a hack...

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

per Terry, auto-verifying any resolved bug that hasn't been touched since before 
2.10 was released.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Moving to Bugzilla product

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/8f7b8020d9cf
[fenix] Import l10n. (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/15945)