Closing the flood gates on implicit bug subscriptions

[Martin Pitt]

Jordan Mantha [2008-04-04  9:30 -0700]:
> 1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204980 - Allow implicit subscribers 
> to explicitly unsubscribe. This would basically solve all the problems 
> I'm seeing, however I can imagine Launchpad developers may not want to 
> do this.

That might be useful, indeed.

> 2) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83488 - Implicitly unsubscribe 
> implicit subscribers when their bug task is marked Invalid (and I would 
> add Fix Released). This allows bug contacts to get all relevant emails 
> without flooding them once the task is finished.

I wouldn't like that. I often get followups for bugs which got fixed,
about related problems, regressions, or very similar bugs, and I
wouldn't like to miss them.

> 3) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1342 - Allowing somebody (admin, 
> developers, etc.) to delete tasks. This would take care of the problem 
> of people inadvertently adding an incorrect task or if we find that the 
> task isn't needed. This is a generally useful feature for lowering the 
> amount of non-relevant bugmail Launchpad-wide.

Right now the common practice is to set them as invalid, but that's
just a workaround. Deleting tasks would be good IMHO.

Martin
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