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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Deryck,

For me the power of the mailing list metaphor comes from the fact that 
Answers, Bugs and Code Reviews are about conversations between people, so to 
me the experience should be as close to email as possible.

Also although, I have no data to back this up, I'd bet that most of our core 
users follows conversations in these forums through their email client. It's 
one of the distinctive feature of Launchpad that we have tight email 
integration.

I don't think many people use the web UI to read bug comments or code reviews. 
Except like in a mailing list when you consult the archive to get up to speed 
on a conversation.

If that's the case, putting a non-descriptive email address in the From would 
really degrade the experience in the mail reader.

As an aside, nowadays it's very common for mailing list to have multiple entry 
points (think list-archives.org, yahoogroups.com, Google Groups, Gmane, etc.)

Cheers

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On June 11, 2010, Deryck Hodge wrote:
> 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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