open team admins are mailed about every membership change

[Jay Pipes]

For completely open teams, such as OpenStack Compute (~openstack), I get notifications of new members because I am a member of a team that owns the open team. There is no way to turn off these notifications, and when you get quite a few new members a day, it can get annoying.

Wishlist, Low Priority thing :)

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Will will not permit admins to opt out of emails. Users and teams in admin roles can become members or be owners that are not members. Many teams set a false email address or a list email address as a work around for this policy.

Part of this issue relates to a cluster of open bugs; Lp conflates ownership with administration. It is fine that owners are the default admins, but Lp must honour the owners decision to not be an admin. There are a few places in the code that cause the the pain. We will be fixing one or two of them this week, and that may suffice.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

I'm going to reopen this because I believe we didn't discuss this particular case.

My thinking is this (in the planned refactoring):
the owner of a team isn't mailed on membership
admins of teams that *have rules about membership* get mailed on membership changes

That makes sense to me because in an open team the admin has no influence over who is a member and who isn't.

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

Thanks for being reasonable, Robert. Like I said, it's a Wishlist/Low priority thing, but would be nice for completely open teams.
Cheers,
-jay

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

However I am going to drop this to low, its not part of the current roadmap. Would be delighted to mentor someone wanting to fix it - it should be pretty straight forward.