GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 89960
changed-by in mail headers
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
It would be really useful if there was an X-Bugzilla-Changed-By: line in the headers. I receive most of the mail from bugs I change via the gtk-bugs@gtk.org "maintainer alias", so the bugzilla preference not to send mail to me on bugs I change doesn't do any good. I'd like to be able to filter these messages out via procmail.
I'm virtually certain this is fixed when we upgrade, but if it isn't, I'll make sure to add it.
I'm pretty sure it's not unless we patch it. It's pretty trivial to add, though.
A better way to set this up (which is quite easy to do with 2.16) would be to log into bugzilla as gtk-bugs@gtk.org, and uncheck all the mail options in the preferences. Then log in as yourself again, and on the mail preferences add gtk-bugs@gtk.org to the "users to watch" entry field (all the other people on the gtk-bugs@gtk.org alias would have to do this too). Now whenever a bug changes that would have caused a mail to be sent to gtk-bugs@gtk.org, it will be sent to the accounts watching the that user. This way the "only send mail for other people's changes" option will be able to do its job. The other benefit is that users can add and remove themselves from GTK bug spam via the web interface by themselves.
I've added the X-Bugzilla-Reasons header, which has some useful information as to why you're getting a bug. I hope that's sufficient. Otherwise, as soon as halloween/mail-list syncing work, I'm going to urge everyone to do as James has been pushing for some years now. He's right, it is the way to go, and we can dump one more part of halloween, which will be nice. [Hopefully when XML-RPC gets going, we can point bug-buddy at that, and then the whole thing can go away :)
Hrm. So, looking at the Reasons header a bit more, I don't think it solves the problem. That said, I'm going to close the bug anyway- fixing this the way you want, Owen, would require more hacking, and it's going to be fixed anyway when we move everyone away from the 'real' maint lists to a more alias-based approach, which should be 'as soon as we can unsubscribe everyone from the current lists.' Hope that's OK, Owen- please reopen if not.