"Also notified" makes difficult to unsubscribe

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

Now users subscribed to a bug that is marked duplicated are incorporated to the other bug report as "Also notified", however, they cannot select "Unsubscribe" from that bug.

I guess one has to unsubscribe from the bug report that was marked as duplicated. Yet, this may be difficult if they are several duplicates and one is subscribed to many of them.

My case is that I cannot select unsubscribe from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/libgnomeprint/+bug/34112

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

the same case as bug 46562. I think my bug report is nicer, though. ;)

[Brad Bollenbach (bradb)]

As one user recently put it on #launchpad: "[T]his is fucking infuriating."

I agree. I think this is a critical bug. It should be possible to stop getting mail on any bug, from that bug's page (not wading through duplicates or otherwise.)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please rescue me from the rants on bug 47848!

[Brad Bollenbach (bradb)]

Colin, manu, and others: do you ever need to unsubscribe from bugs on things for which you are the bug contact, or where you're assigned to the bug, or is the problem limited to unsubscribing from bugs that you're getting mail about from being subscribed to one of the dupes?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I don't ever need/want to unsubscribe due to being the bug contact or the assignee, no. I can't speak for anyone else, but it seems to me like an unusual thing to want, and bug contacts / assignees should be more capable of using filtering and generally dealing with large amounts of mail than ordinary users filing bugs are expected to be.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

I'm fine with solving this with smart UI that joes DTRT. I am not so happy with adding an Ignore sub, though.

[Mårten Woxberg (maxmc)]

The big trouble is that I can't find my duplicate bug under my own user.
How do I go about finding that bug?

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/52539/+subscribe

I want to remove me from some reported bug, because I'm always receiving mail's. how to do that?

How about:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/52539/+unsubscribe

Thanks!

[Brad Bollenbach (bradb)]

On 5-Sep-06, at 8:19 AM, Gothic wrote:

> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/52539/+subscribe
>
> I want to remove me from some reported bug, because I'm always
> receiving
> mail's. how to do that?
>
> How about:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/52539/
> +unsubscribe

For this specific case, you can just unsubscribe from this bug, a dupe:

https://launchpad.net/products/dapper-backports/+bug/57545

That should do it. It's a hackish workaround until this bug is
properly fixed.

Brad

[Johnathan Zhuang (johnathan-zhuang)]

I have to agree that this issue is quote annoying, I reported a few bug when Kubuntu 6.06 was released. I had then been indirectly subscribed to a number of bug reports that were in one form or another duplicates of the ones that I had submitted.

Whilest I welcome any updates on the status of the original bug, I don't like the fact the scope of email notification widens as more and more duplicates of the bugs are being reported (no points for guessing that the user base of distros are increasing all the time, and that duplicate bug reports will be created).

Wouldn't it make more sense to have one central point of subscription for a specific bug?

i.e.
Duplicate bug report identified:
1) Point duplicate bug report to original bug report (supposedly only one for each unique bug)
2) Transfer email subscription from duplicate to original bug report (read: 2 steps; create new subscriptions in the original report, delete subscriptions in the duplicate report).
3) Close off duplicate bug report (no more comments).

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Brad, is the fix for this expected to be applied soon? The issue is still annoying a lot of users.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Reopen. I still cannot unsubscribe from bug 34112.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Oh, I am already unsubscribed. Argh, sorry about that. Forget it.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Actually, it works perfectly. And the messages are very informative. Many thanks!

[Giuseppe Benigno (giuseppe-benigno)]

I'm very tired, I not want receive more mail from a unsubscripted bug.
My name is in "Also notified" and I can't remove it! grrr

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Just to menu "Unsubscribe" in the right of the screen.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/48860/+subscribe

[Giuseppe Benigno (giuseppe-benigno)]

I'm already unsubscribed.
I'm unsubscribed from one year about.

My problem is my name is in the "Also notified" list and I recevied all bug mail, every day :-(
I not want receive more mail from this bug.

Thank you.
Giuseppe Benigno

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

Guiseppe, you're "Also notified" because you've subscribed to acpi-support itself. You can unsubscribe here:

  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+subscribe

[Giuseppe Benigno (giuseppe-benigno)]

Thank you very much, I am unsubscribed now :-)

Regards
Giuseppe Benigno

[Leon van der Ree (lvanderree)]

can someone please unscribe me from the phpmyadmin package. It is driving me crazy and I can't seem to find why I am being notified, and worse how to unscribe myself.

Thanks in advance

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Leon: Try https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpmyadmin/+subscribe.

[Peter Hultqvist (hultqvist)]

Although the last comments on this bug solves the effects of the bug, they do not solve the problem.

1. If the website knows that one is to be notified, shown in the "Also notified", it should also know why: subscribed to that bug, to the project or to duplicates.
Place a "unsubscribe" link there to linking to the correct place for unsubscribing.

2. The mail sent with each notification should contain reference to why it was sent and how to stop it. This can be done by either:
    - Text informing about the bug and instructions on how to unsubscribe
OR
    - Link to the bug(present today) together with nr. 1 above.

This must be at least as simple so unsubscribe as to subscribe. And consider that that you might not remember how you subscribed, it must be even simpler.

[Steven Rosenberg (steven-rosenberg)]

I just tried the "+subscribe" hack described in comment #21. I hope it works.

The bug filling my filtered mail queue was on xserver-xorg-video-intel, and I had no idea that even after unsubscribing to the bug I would get so much mail due to the "also notified" feature in Launchpad.

I don't know why Launchpad insists on "also notifying" me. If I subscribe to the bug, I should have the choice to receive mail or not. And if I don't subscribe, I really shouldn't be getting any mail at all.

I consider this a major Launchpad bug. There should be a way in the Launchpad interface to manage this flow of mail -- and to shut it off if desired.

[Steven Rosenberg (steven-rosenberg)]

This did work for me. I no longer receive the unwanted "also notifying" mail"

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpmyadmin/+subscribe.