Re: adding dups reporters to recipients

["Mustafa Ozturk" <mozturk usc edu>]

I am new to all this.
I added a bug (111153) which is appearantly a duplicate of another bug,
which I couldn't find in bugzilla.  So for me an auto cc feature would be
useful.

Mustafa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Fleck" <jfleck inkstain net>
To: <gnome-bugsquad gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: adding dups reporters to recipients


> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 09:31, Elijah P Newren wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 06:54, paolo borelli wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I was wondering if it would be possible to configure bugzilla so that
> > > when a bug A is marked as duplicate of bug B the reporter of bug A
could
> > > be added to the list of recipents that are mailed when a modification
to
> > > bug B occurs.
> [snip]
> >    1) The majority of people who submit bugs to bugzilla (around 90-95%
> >       or so) never follow up on the bugs they submit--we know because we
> >       often need and ask for extra information, and very few people
> >       respond to such requests.  Thus, making your change would probably
> >       be an inconvenience or annoyance to most bugzilla users.  So, even
> >       though this would be beneficial to the more helpful bugzilla users
> >       such as yourself, we don't want to irritate the majority of the
> >       bugzilla users out there.
>
> I think Elijah's argument here is reason enough not to do this. People
> who really want to get updates already can easily add themselves to the
> cc line. By experience, most people don't seem to want to have much of
> anything to do with a bug after they file it.
>
> Cheers,
> John
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