600674 - When a dependency is set, provide the bug summary in the email notification

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97956

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, defect)

Description

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

I spend the bulk of my work day reading incoming bugmail, and the majority of those messages are based on changes of dependency relationships, such as:


          What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Depends on|                            |600196

People often set a large number of dependency relationships at the same time, so I often encounter a sequence of 20 or 30 of these messages in a row.

Because the bug summary is not provided, I have two options:

1) Move on to the next piece of mail, assuming that if the dependent or blocking bug was actually important someone will cc me. (However this often isn't the case because the person changing the relationship believes this is enough to put the new bug on my radar)

2) Actually look up the new bug to specifically see what it is about (which I usually don't have time to do given the amount of incoming bugmail).

We really need to place the bug summary in these email notifications.  Ideally we would also use a human readable sentence instead of an ASCII table, but that's a secondary issue.

If we don't address this issue, we have to choose between accidentally ignoring some bugs, or being considerably less efficient as we manage hundreds of incoming bugmail messages.

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Marking as dupe of bug 97956. 

(Also potentially related, fwiw: bug 113688 -- "Include summaries of and link URLs to bug ### or other quoteUrls phrases in email")