Comment 3 for bug 3882

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Brad Bollenbach (bradb) wrote : Re: [Bug 3882] time based / temporary subscriptions to bug reports (and packages)

On 2-Dec-05, at 12:17 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3882
>
> Comment:
> IMO it's very important to be able to track a package if you did
> upload
> it and you are not subscribed to it (i.e. doing a one time bug fix).
> Look at people doing uploads of many packages to achive one thing.
> That's regularily done for library renamings, version upgrades,
> merges,
> etc ...
>
> Debian recently added something like this:
>
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=doko%40debian.org
>
> see the bottom of the page (Uploads by <email address hidden>). So this one
> isn't time based, but holds the information as long as you are the
> last
> uploader.

Are there other use cases that you can think of for why you'd want
time-based or temporary package subscriptions?

It might be best to gather those in this bug report.

  affects /products/malone status needinfo

Cheers,

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Brad Bollenbach