Doesn't subscribe submitter to merge requests from non owned repositories

[Sebastien Bacher]

Unsure if the description is accurate but my guess would be that launchpad doesn't email notify you of comment for merges requests you created if the branch isn't owned by you

One example might be more easy to understand

$ git clone -b hacking git+ssh://<username>@git.launchpad.net/<project>

work, do changes

$ git push git+ssh://<username><email address hidden>/<project> hacking

click on the url suggested to MP the change, enter the details, submit

I got several cases where I missed review comments and I think that's because launchpad simply didn't email those, I guess that's because the branch was pushed to the project rather than to ~<username>? It would be useful to auto subscribe the person who submitted the MP in those cases

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is true, though we strongly recommend that you instead push to a repository owned by you even if you have permission to push directly to the target (so `/~seb128/<project>` rather than just `/<project>`). There's usually no reason not to do that and it's much clearer what's going on.

At present we don't have independent subscriptions for merge proposals, nor for individual git branches. Unless we add one of those, the only way to fix this would involve subscribing you to the entire repository, which I suspect would be too heavyweight.