ccing a person in mail to malone should subscribe them to the bugs affected.

[Robert Collins]

09:28 < lifeless> do you think, that if I send an email to new-bugs,
cc'd to $person, malone would be sane in subscrbing $person
automatically?
09:30 < bradb> lifeless: I don't know that there's a correct answer to
that question, but it would probably be more sane than not.
09:30 < lucasvo> lifeless: in that case I would add a header to the
first email LP sends to $person that he has been subscribed because....
09:30 < bradb> Roundup does that, I believe.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:32:40PM -0000, Robert Collins wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> 09:28 < lifeless> do you think, that if I send an email to new-bugs,
> cc'd to $person, malone would be sane in subscrbing $person
> automatically?

There was some discussions before, whether to subscribe people if they
were CC:ed, and there were some strong opinions against it. Malone does
offer a way of subscribing people, using the 'subscribe' command, so
I'm not sure we need another way.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:26 +0000, Björn Tillenius wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:32:40PM -0000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > 09:28 < lifeless> do you think, that if I send an email to new-bugs,
> > cc'd to $person, malone would be sane in subscrbing $person
> > automatically?
>
> There was some discussions before, whether to subscribe people if they
> were CC:ed, and there were some strong opinions against it. Malone does
> offer a way of subscribing people, using the 'subscribe' command, so
> I'm not sure we need another way.

Oh. That seems like quite a shame to me - the most natural way of
organising a three-way conversation via email is to email two people,
and have them both reply-to-all... which is the equivalent of
subscribing to the bug in malone terms.

At the least, when filing a new bug with an email to a person and to
Malone, Malone could email the filer with a comment that the person they
cc'd has -not- been subscribed, and how to do a subscription.

Rob
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[Jason Spiro (jasonspiro)]

> At the least, when filing a new bug with an email to a person and to
> Malone, Malone could email the filer with a comment that the person they
> cc'd has -not- been subscribed, and how to do a subscription.

I requested something like this just now. It is bug 96597. Thanks for the idea Rob.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

We maybe shouldn't explicitly subscribe CCs to the bugs, the the CC field should be retain for sent notifications, or something like that.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 15:40 +0000, Björn Tillenius wrote:
> We maybe shouldn't explicitly subscribe CCs to the bugs, the the CC
> field should be retain for sent notifications, or something like that.

Possibly. OTOH I think CC'ing people to subscribe them is much more
natural and easy than:
 -CC to get them on your message
 -subscribe <lpusername> to get them to recieve follow ups.

-Rob

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