Splitting msg9015 off from issue1512

I'm not even sure it's a good idea to do this (clutter), but it may be good if
the bug-tracker had a CC field so that people can be notified without creating
an account, and particularly so that we can communicate with things like the
Debian tracker (which has a separate email address per bug) without cluttering
our user list.

I doubt it's worth the effort, but if anybody wants to work on this,
  darcs get http://darcs.net/darcs-bugtracker

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:57:56AM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> I'm not even sure it's a good idea to do this (clutter), but it may be good if
> the bug-tracker had a CC field so that people can be notified without creating
> an account, and particularly so that we can communicate with things like the
> Debian tracker (which has a separate email address per bug) without cluttering
> our user list.
>
> I doubt it's worth the effort, but if anybody wants to work on this,
>   darcs get http://darcs.net/darcs-bugtracker

IMO nosy *is* CC, so what you're talking about is more of a BCC.

<Debian hat on>

The way Debian's BTS works, is that a Darcs bug that's not Debian-
specific may have a ticket in Debian's tracker that basically just
says "forwarded to http://bugs.darcs.net/issueNNN".  A script in
Debian understands that this is a roundup URL and knows how to pull
metadata (read: bug status) from Roundup and inject it into Debian.

So for *Debian*, at least, the only thing this extra field would
achieve is to copy comments from roundup into Debian's associated
ticket -- which I think is actually a bad idea.

The issue I was talking about elsewhere is that there are ALREADY a
bunch of @bugs.debian.org accounts in Roundup, and as these aren't
needed, they ought to be removed, or at least consolidated.

It's also possible for new @bdo accounts to be created in roundup by
well-meaning a bug reporter setting the "forwarded to" field to
bugs@darcs.net instead of http://bugs.darcs.net/issueNNN.  You could
reduce suckiness by creating a "Debbugs" user and giving it every
address from 1@bugs.debian.org to 999999@bugs.debian.org -- on sober
reflection, I don't think it's worth doing so.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 00:21:47 +0000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > I doubt it's worth the effort, but if anybody wants to work on this,
> >   darcs get http://darcs.net/darcs-bugtracker
> 
> IMO nosy *is* CC, so what you're talking about is more of a BCC.

Point taken about BCC.

What I was mainly referring to was the fact that the nosy field
is tied to roundup accounts and not email addresses, which can be
annoying if you just want to lurk.

> The way Debian's BTS works, is that a Darcs bug that's not Debian-
> specific may have a ticket in Debian's tracker that basically just
> says "forwarded to http://bugs.darcs.net/issueNNN".  A script in
> Debian understands that this is a roundup URL and knows how to pull
> metadata (read: bug status) from Roundup and inject it into Debian.
> 
> So for *Debian*, at least, the only thing this extra field would
> achieve is to copy comments from roundup into Debian's associated
> ticket -- which I think is actually a bad idea.

Oh!

> The issue I was talking about elsewhere is that there are ALREADY a
> bunch of @bugs.debian.org accounts in Roundup, and as these aren't
> needed, they ought to be removed, or at least consolidated.

I'll get to it then, thanks!

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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Debian users removed.  I guess I'll mark this a wont-fix as it's unlikely
anybody will be motivated enough to work on this :-)