sometimes I don't want to know about changes to bugs

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Launchpad sends me lots of emails, many of which are good and interesting. Some of them aren't good or interesting though - for example, all the rest of the emails it will send me related to <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/375867> (because Twisted (owned by the twisted-dev team, of which I am a member) was erroneously marked as also affected).

It would be great if there were some way for me to opt out of cases like this (it would be even greater if Launchpad did the right thing automatically, of course).

[Christopher Armstrong (radix)]

That particular example is pretty interesting. Deciding what to do automatically is pretty difficult, so I definitely agree that an "Opt Out" button would be desirable.

The problem in that particular example is that a bug was filed against bzr; someone thought it was perhaps a bug that was in Twisted, but it actually wasn't. Once it was determined that it wasn't, the Twisted developers don't care at all about it. So we should have a way to say "no, really, this isn't about Twisted; don't send *any* Twisted developers email about it unless someone explicitly wants to posit that it's really related to Twisted again". The reason it needs to be worded in that way is that, obviously, if it's a bug filed against *only* Twisted and the Twisted developers decide it's an invalid bug, someone should be able to comment on that definitely-Twisted-related bug and have their comment sent to the developers.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

The case of removing erroneously-marked projects from a bug report is bug 1342. There are other bug reports tracking the need to unsubscribe from other indirect subscriptions: bug 75620, bug 204980, and bug 315563.