all changes to bugs trigger notifications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Please add a way to flag launchpadlib operations as 'minor-edit', thus making launchpad not send email notices about the changes.
[Discussion]
With launchpadlib it's useful to write scripts that do various recordkeeping and janitorial work. For instance, adding tags like 'patch' to bugs with attachments that are patches, or updating the titles to include specifics about hardware info. These can be quite helpful for managing bug workflows or to help sort and prioritize bugs.
However, in general, these changes are minor and of little importance to anyone subscribed to the bug report. They don't provide any indication of human activity on the bug report, they don't give the reporter any information that helps them work around or resolve the issue, and they tend to increase the perception of launchpad's email as overly chatty.
So the idea is to provide a parameter that these scripts could flip on to indicate that the change is minor. This should suppress email from being sent from Launchpad. There are probably only a few API calls which would benefit from having this option... adding/removing tags, changing the title, and (maybe) altering the description.
affects: | launchpadlib → launchpad-foundations |
tags: | added: api |
Changed in launchpad-foundations: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
summary: |
- Need way to flag 'minor-change' changes + all changes to bugs trigger notifications |
That would be nice.
In some ways it would be nice if this also exempted the bug from being marked as recently changed; I don't especially want minorly-changed bugs at the top of that sort order. (Perhaps.) However if this ties into api caching behaviour it may be infeasible to change. It's not super important.
There is an analog for this in code reviews, which are also interesting to bots and which are also complained about as being too chatty.