55108 - Create a status-update field that's separate from CC:

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jason Eager]

There are a lot of people who cc themselves to a bug that don't really care
about the discussion surrounding the bug, they just want to be notified when the
bug is fixed. Therefore, some people are complaining about "spam" on bugs with
large cc lists whenever someone adds a comment to the bug.

Therefore, I think we should create another field that just sends e-mail when
the status of the bug has been changed from NEW or ASSIGNED to FIXED. It could
just send an e-mail out to those people saying "Bug# xxxxx (description), has
now been fixed." That way, we won't have to worry about commenting freely on a
bug without spamming people, because the only people who would remain cc'ed on a
bug would be those people who actually want to read the discussion.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I like this idea.  There's some related discussion in bug 7345 and bug 17464 
(mostly about bcc or quiet cc).

Adding this bug to tracking bug 53044.

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I think bug #17464 pretty much covers this.

Comment 3

[Stephan Niemz]

In which way does that bug cover this?

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Well, in the incarnation that eventually got checked in, it doesn't.

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Maybe the appropriate way to deal with this is to allow a user to define a
personal "interest class" and allow people to filter on it.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

-> Bugzilla product

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Changing default owner of Email Notifications component to JayPee, a.k.a.
J. Paul Reed ([e-mail]).  Jake will be offline for a few months.

Comment 8

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Isn't this fixed by our current email prefs, i.e. you can ignore comments (or
anything else) and just get status updates (or anything else)?

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

A few months ago, I created a second bugzilla account,
[e-mail], with e-mail prefs set to only notify me of
status changes.  I've cc'ed it on 18 bugs since then, mostly regressions where I
don't expect there to be a debate about expected behavior or UI.

Comment 10

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

This sounds like the duped bug; complain if I got it wrong.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125538 ***

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 125538 is about separating "The bug is resolved or verified" in *prefs* into
two or three lines.  This bug is for a per-bug list of people who want to
receive status update notification.  Fixing bug 125538 would not fix this bug,
because some people want to receive status updates on some bugs and all updates
on other bugs.

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 152010 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 201916 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Jesse: you're right. I just found bug 125538 before I found this bug... thanks
for correcting that.

Comment 15

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Kick all my Bugzilla bugs back to the component default owner.

Comment 16

[Frédéric Buclin]

AFAICT, you can use the voting system to only get notifications when the bug status changes. I doubt voters are interested in anything else but bug changes. We are not going to implement another field to get only bug changes.