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>Those who use Bugzilla frequently are probably used to notification spam<br>
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- unwanted or unnecessary notifications. A number of proposals have<br>
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been put forward to attempt to reduce this.<br>
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1. Reduce CC Spam<br>
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Some of you probably know me as that guy who CCs on heaps and heaps of<br>
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bugs. Just as you get a lot of CC changes from me, so do I get a lot<br>
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from others. Why should CC changes send out email notifications?<br>
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It's not necessarily the best idea to just remove the CC spam, there are<br>
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other issues too, like the difficulty of adding to large CC fields.<br>
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For these reasons and more, an RFE for a per user "BCC" facility exists<br>
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that people could use to silently and privately track bugs, in a similar<br>
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way to voting today, but applying to an unlimited number of bugs. See<br>
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"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7345".<br>
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2. Bulk Changes<br>
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You know the drill - a large milestone change, a component movement,<br>
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whatever, and lots of notifications are generated. If there's enough<br>
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maybe you'll just go delete, delete, delete, whoops, there goes another<br>
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notification that wasn't from the bulk change you missed.<br>
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Shouldn't bulk changes send out one notification? A proposal for this<br>
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is at "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26943".<br>
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<br>
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3. Configurable Notification Criteria<br>
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It would be good if you could choose what you want to receive. There<br>
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are two parts to this.<br>
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(a) Choose a selection of bugs you're interested in. This would be<br>
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similar to CC except you let the set be computed from selection criteria<br>
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rather than limited to the bugs your name is on. There is currently a<br>
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limited version of this in the bugzilla preferences, ie "all qualifying<br>
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bugs"/"all qualifying bugs except the ones I change"/"only those bugs<br>
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which I am listed on the cc line".<br>
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(b) Choose what changes will trigger a notification for the bugs you are<br>
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watching. With this, you could choose whether you want to receive cc,<br>
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dependency and keyword changes, for example.<br>
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Both of these proposals live at<br>
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"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14137".</P
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