Trac emails -- how to stop getting them

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 07:54, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>
>> On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:13 AM, N_Ox wrote:
>>
>>> As Ryan said, with the new configuration anyone who had  
>>> participated in the ticket (even just to change some properties)  
>>> gets notified afterwards.
>>> We should only notify the reporter and the assignee by default,  
>>> shouldn't we?
>>
>> That's Trac's "notify updaters" feature in action, with which  
>> anyone who's ever "updated" a ticket gets, hhhhmmmmm, notified ;-)
>
> I figured as much. And it can be a nice feature, and it can even be  
> the expected behavior in many cases. But I think it's not the best  
> behavior in all cases.
>
>> I could ask Bill to turn it off for us if it turns out to be too  
>> much of a nuisance and there's strong demand against it, but the  
>> one unfortunate thing is that all of Apple is off this entire week  
>> for thanksgiving! Maybe we could take this time then to poll...?
>
> I don't suppose there's any way for this to be a per-user setting?  
> Default to on so that casual MacPorts users commenting on tickets  
> will get responses. Settable to off for ticket cleaners like me and  
> Anthony who touch tons of tickets just to get them assigned to the  
> right places but who don't want to be bombarded with tons of follow- 
> ups.



	Now that's a good question, but I'm afraid to tell you that I have no  
idea. Maybe Daniel can shed some light?

	I will bring it up to Bill when I first get a chance, though.... I  
certainly wouldn't want to loose your efforts and energy after  
drowning in Trac emails ;-) Regards,...


-jmpp