Comment 7 for bug 567004

On 27 April 2010 02:08, Deryck Hodge <email address hidden> wrote:
> My preference would be to do something along the lines of bug 568169 and
> add the ability to distinguish work from API clients in bugs.  Then, we
> could couple that with adding an email header and a notification setting
> to turn of or filter notices from api clients.  The other issues raised
> here -- noise from changes to title, description, or adding tags --
> should be configurable by themselves, regardless of whether or not that
> change is minor.
>
> Would that be acceptable, rather than a "minor change" flag?  I don't
> generally care for these kinds of flags.

I basically agree.

I think human-set "this is a minor edit" flags, despite being fairly
popular on eg wikipedia, are likely to have a lot of errors in both
directions: people will not set it when they perhaps should, and
conversely may try to smuggle spam or contentious changes through as
minor.

On the other hand I think having a "notification preferences" bit that
controls whether you are told about trivial changes or not would be
useful.

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