23925 - want personal control panel for saying which email notifications you want

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17464

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

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

It would be nice if Bugzilla users could specify (via a control panel of
checkboxes) which kinds of email notifications they personally did/did not want
to receive.

Comment 1

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Examples of possible checkbox controls: check yes or no to be notified for:
- change QA contact (as PM, I don't care that much)
- change assigned engineer (also care little about this)
- confirmed DUP (don't tell me what I already know! ;-> )
- confirmed INVALID (ditto)
- change dependency (not worth an email in my mind)
- change URL
- Summary field

Usually people *would* want to be notified of:
- new bugs on them
- reopened bugs on them
- bugs that change to be assigned to them

I recognize that checking all these settings after a bug edit on all the people
on the cc: list might create performance problems for Bugzilla.

Comment 2

[Terry Weissman]

The real problem is that this doesn't work with the current architecture of
email notifications.  At all.

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

This was originally talked about in general in bug #14137.  I'll leave this as
the main bug for this specific issue since that bug has become confused.

From that bug:

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I put a comment on bug #37345 (BCC) about separating resolution only and normal
notification, and bug #17464 talked about settable change triggers to prevent
dependency spam.

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A notification class is the combination is a bug match condition (the default
here is when you're on CC, reporter, etc.) and a change trigger condition on
those bugs.  The change triggers are what this bug talks about.

From that bug again:

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Each notification class could define a set of "keywords", for want of a better
term, that appears in the subject line for the criterion of this class.  This
could allow better and easier filtering than any "body search" since it is
Bugzilla specific.

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The subject line "keywords" proposal would also aid an implementation of bug
#26943, which would further reduce spam.

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

BCC is bug #7345.

Comment 5

[Terry Weissman]

[e-mail] is the new owner of Bugzilla and Bonsai.  (For details,
see my posting in netscape.public.mozilla.webtools,
news://news.mozilla.org/38F5D90D.F40E8C1A%40geocast.com .)

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Having just disected the email code in order to resolve the lack of "New Email 
Tech" mails to QA Contacts, I can counter Terry's comment that it won't fit in 
the current architecture.  Based on what I saw in the email code, as long as the 
user is using the New Email Tech, this should be relatively painless to 
implement.

Comment 7

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17464 ***

Comment 8

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe.

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/4706bc35b270
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/23925 - Update tab counter and reader mode colors to use the design system