191510 - "Bug has been fixed - download version xxxx"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, enhancement)

Description

[Adrian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021215
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021215

Hi,

Can you add a email notification so that when a bug has been fixed, the person
who reported the bug gets an email like this:

Subject: Bugzilla bug 123456

Your bug 123456 sent to the Bugzilla team has been resolved. Please download
version xx.xx or later which contains the updated module. This is available from
www.bugzilla.org


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Report a bug using Bugzilla
2. Receive many progress reports
3. 

Actual Results:  
Many progress updates
Get "Status: resolved (URL)" email

Expected Results:  
Get progress updates
Get "Bug has been fixed in version xx.xx and is documented at (URL), download
from ..."

Comment 1

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Bugzilla already sends resolution emails. If you're not getting them, check your
email prefs.

How is this different from that?

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The target milestone on a resolved bug usually tells you what version contains
the fix.  Unfortunately you have to view the bug to get that...

Someone could always make a manual mass-comment to all those bugs when the new
version finally comes out.  Wonder how many people would complain about the spam
if we did that though....  :)

Comment 3

[Adrian]

The "bug resolved" email is sent anyway, so it would be appreciated if that
email could have the target milestone value included where appropriate. I don't
understand how Bugzilla generates these emails, but wouldn't it mean just adding
the "target milestone" parameter to the template used to generate them?

Comment 4

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Ha ha ha... email generated by templates... ... ha ha.

Seriously though, bug 84876 will templatize all email from Bugzila; currently,
email sent by Bugzilla isn't templatized.

And lots of people probably wouldn't like the feature you're proposing (it also
is more complex than you think, if I'm understanding what you want), so it will
be something you could customize in the template, I should think... after 84876
goes in, that is.

Comment 5

[Adrian]

So if I understand that correctly, the "resolved" email has its own layout
hard-coded into the program? Does this mean the "target milestone" could be
added to that without using templates for every message?

Comment 6

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

If you wanted to hack it, yes (it's more difficult than that... you'd have to
add logic to make processmail figure out that the change on the bug was changing
the resolution to 'fixed', and then in *that* case alone, add the milestone as
well).

Templating every mail message is the right way (tm) to do it; and that's what
84876, which is currently a top priority (after 124174 goes in) is about.