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[Benji York <benji.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:47:05AM -0400, Brad Crittenden wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today the Launchpad Yellow Squad has enabled our work to support
>> better bug notifications for the ~malone-alpha team, which now
>> includes ~launchpad-dev.  A full summary of the work can be read at
>> the LEP[1] but in short we are providing more advanced filtering for
>> bug subscription both "direct" and "structural".  A direct bug
>> subscription is when a person or team subscribes to an individual bug.
>> A structural subscription is made to product, distribution, or
>> milestone, etc.
>>
>> With the new work you can choose between various levels of activity
>> for which you'll be notified.  With structural subscriptions you can
>> also specify filters based on tags, bug states, and importances.  Also
>> subscriptions to an individual bug may now be muted, regardless of why
>> you are subscribed to that bug.
>>
>> If you have time to exercise these features and give us feedback it
>> would be appreciated.
>
> What is the best way to give feedback?  For example I noticed that
> structural subscribers no longer appear on a bug page and I'm not sure
> if this is by design or a bug.  If it is a bug is there a special tag I
> should use?

I believe the issue you're referring to is represented by bug 772754
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/772754).

All the related bugs are tagged with story-better-bug-notification.  The
list of bugs with that tag can be viewed at
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+bugs?field.tag=story-better-bug-notification.
-- 
Benji York