Bug 206170

Summary: Do not send email by default on CC list changes
Product: [Websites] bugs.kde.org Reporter: Alberto Gonzalez <luis6674>
Component: generalAssignee: Matt Rogers <mattr>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: chealer, nate, Steven_bales, tobias
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: All   
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Description Alberto Gonzalez 2009-09-03 21:37:25 UTC
I realized that 90% of the emails I get from the KDE bugzilla are just to tell me that someone has added or removed himself from the CC list. This was making me waste a lot of time, so I decided to see if I could change it in my preferences. And sure, I could (great!). But I still wonder why this is the default setting. I think that 99.99% of the users don't want to get emails telling them that someone has added/removed himself from the CC list, but probably most of them are lazy (as I was up to now) to care about logging into their account and find the place to change it. So I think it would be great to change this default, at least for new accounts created (probably it would be a good idea to change it for accounts already created, but not sure if that's ok for the 0.01% who might want to get these notifications and would stop getting them without knowing why).

Thanks.
Comment 1 Steve'o 2012-01-05 01:50:27 UTC
get off my comp.
Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2013-01-17 22:31:02 UTC
By default, CC change notification is only enabled for the reporter role.

I agree most bug repoerters (either users or developers) do not care about CC list changes.
Comment 3 Philippe Cloutier 2019-07-17 20:23:54 UTC
I have no strong feeling about this, but I wouldn't mind the default to be changed.

Another possibility might be to send a first notification which indicates that further such notifications will not be sent, unless the user enables the preference.
Comment 4 Philippe Cloutier 2019-07-17 20:26:19 UTC
Oh, and one argument for disabling (at least by default) is I am not sure the Cc list should be public anyway.

By the way, this ticket should have wishlist "Importance".