GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 597962
Investigate on how to follow someone properly
Last modified: 2009-11-13 04:57:49 UTC
As per the Meeting: http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/Meetings/20091009 "Generally a good thing to help newbies finding their way to the magics of Triaging. The problem with newbies closing bugs is, though, that they might upset someone by, e.g. closing bugs too early or fiddling around with metadata. Thus we should supervise a newbie for as long as it's needed ;-) But there's a problem: How does one get the changes someone else made to a bug?"
Make anyone (including you) interested in following all user activity watch the novice's email address. This is like standing in his/her shoes. Do so by adding it to the 'users to watch' list under Account->Email preferences.
It is actually Preferences->Email Preferences
OK, here's how it seems to work: Christian is correct. The catch seems to be that "is like standing in her/his shoes" indeed *plus* the settings on "But not when" as NOT applied. So we can watch somebody else without getting all email on actions *we* do, by setting all wanted fields in "Field/recipient specific options", and then setting all options on the "but not when the change was made by me". I would like some more tests on it, though. I opened a new (test) bug, bug 598035, under a new userId, and was able to check this.
I have been doing this successfully ever since I hold the powers to set the CANCONFIRM and EDIT permissions on users. I did not validate whether this actually gets me a copy of every action done by the novice but I have never noticed something gone missing.
Closing. Our experiments show we can get all (or close enough to all) actions from watched people without affecting our own settings.