546019 - It is difficult to figure out how to add myself to a bug's CC list

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[David Reese]

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There is a nice little checkbox, "Add me to the CC list". But it is difficult to figure out how to actually add myself to the CC list.

I just checked the box and hit the button that said "Commit". But that seems to have sent an email to everybody else following the bug. That was not what I wanted.

Is there no way to add myself to the CC list nice and quietly?

At the very least, the button that says "Commit" should say something more friendly, like "Save changes" or "Save bug changes" or somesuch. Unless you want to be unfriendly?  (Given the rest of the interface that's a real possibility)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Oops, I typed "Commit" a bit too quickly. :)

About renaming Commit as Save Changes, that's already done in newer versions of Bugzilla.

Now about emailing people that you CC'ed yourself. That's intentional. Everyone is free to get email for that or not. So "works for me".

Comment 2

[Guy Pyrzak]

What Frederic meant was, we want everyone to know that added yourself to the CC list. 

It's your way of saying to everyone else, "Hey I'm interested about this too!". I'm sure you are concerned about spamming people etc. But the right way to fix that is for Bugzilla to add a digest or something else. Letting people know you are interested is a good thing. 

If your desire to add youself silently is for another reason let us know and we can discuss it and reopen this bug

Feel free to file other bugs like this, we do want to make the UI more friendly.