On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Allen Li <cyberdupo56@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:08:52AM -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
Just do a goddamn filter in Gmail.
Yes I am aware of filters (I worked in Gmail UI team btw). I already have 300+ filters and I hate to add more, especially for one-time notifications.
Forcing everyone to create a filter for aur notifications sounds wrong to me. Most people just will not do this. And I think "invisible" message by default + people's laziness to create filters is the reason why it is more difficult to get a package maintainer response via comments rather than via personal email.
Most web sites (such as forums) known to me send notifications "to:" user exactly for this reason - make these messages visible by default.
I personally don't have any objections either way, but is there a reason *not* to send notifications directly to the user? Sure, there are ways around it (filters for Gmail) , but why make it an issue in the first place?
AUR notifications are sent as a single e-mail to all subscribed users to avoid having to send each and every subscriber a separate e-mail. They are sent as a BCC to avoid having every subscribed user e-mail address in the "To" field. I believe the Arch bugtracker works the same way, so it's not something completely unique to the AUR.
Just my $0.02
Allen