Comment 4 for bug 348750

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 348750] Re: merge proposal mail context is confusing

2009/3/30 Jonathan Lange <email address hidden>:
> Agreed, the To: field is broken. What should it be?
>
> I think we're wrong to use the subject provided by the sender without
> modification. We should prepend some information.

I agree.

> A header at the top of the email might be nice but is not necessary to
> fix this bug IMO. What do our UI ppl think?

fwiw it would be consistent with what's done for questions.

> Martin, I hope you've figured out the riddle of the [Merge] prefix
> (hint: bzr send).

My confusion actually came from not realizing that review responses
could themselves specify a subject, which overrides the default
subject of the merge mails. I realize this is consistent with bug
comments, but is it actually useful? Why not just have one text field
per comment?

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>