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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Francis.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Francis J. Lacoste
<francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So given this, IMHO, I'd like to preserve the current genre of thinking of
> conversation (answers, code, bugs) as mailing list and such have comments be
> sent using the current form of From: Me <my.preferred.email@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you elaborate on why you want to preserve this?  Is it personal
preference, or do you think it's a better way to do things?

Or do you mean because of this...

> But I'd really like that we keep using the poster email for comments, which
> makes sense given that those can be triggered by an email in the first place.
>

If so, I'm not sure I agree it makes sense for this reason.  Comments
can be triggered in the web UI and via the API, too.  We want uniform
notifications from Launchpad regardless of how the action was
performed, don't we?

This is where the bug mail as mailing list metaphor breaks down for me
because the *only* way to interact with a mailing list is via email.
This is not true for Launchpad bugs.

In some ways, I feel this is the core of the problem, we never really
commit fully to be an mailing list-like bug tracker or a web-based bug
tracker that sends mail.  Maybe in practice this is not really a
problem, but I would rather us consciously say "yes, this doesn't make
sense, but we do it because we gain X, Y, and Z."  It's this "we gain
X, Y, and Z" part of the discussion I would really love from those
favoring the current approach.

Cheers,
deryck


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