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The README is now gutted, pointers to Guide. Also some new sections added, old ones fixed, and notes appended to deprecated sections I've not yet had the heart to remove. git-svn-id: svn://10.0.0.236/trunk@93058 18797224-902f-48f8-a5cc-f745e15eee43
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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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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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<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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<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".<br>
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Note that they also live at<br>
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"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17464", and the change <br>
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has been checked in. This is fixed with Bugzilla 2.12 and is no longer<br>
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an issue. Woo-Hoo!</P
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