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["Cody A.W. Somerville" <cody-somerville@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:09 AM, William Grant
<william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 30/05/11 17:47, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>
> <snip>

> >
> > Hunting around, I didn't manage to find a way to say "yes I'm part of
> > ~launchpad, no I don't want the email about bugs and merge proposals to
> > which it is subscribed."
> >
> > Though I don't seem to be getting any extra merge-proposals, I *am*
> > getting all of the bug email from today.
>
> As discussed on IRC, this was just a few bugs to which ~launchpad-bugs
> was explicitly subscribed, before the merge completed.
>
> ~launchpad itself was also subscribed to a few hundred bugs, but I've
> removed all those subscriptions.
>

Unfortunately ~launchpad is a member of a large number of teams and now that
it no longer has a contact address I'm getting notifications and e-mails
that I didn't before. Two examples include all vcs import related
notifications (via launchpad -> vcs-imports) and all bug notificaitons for
the wadllib project (via launchpad -> launchpadlib-developers).

I suspect that there will never be an instance where a notification is
appropriate or desired to be delivered to everyone in ~launchpad. As such,
my recommendation is to setup a new mailing list (most likely a private
Canonical mailing list to avoid exposing any notifications that may be
private) configured not to send bounces and set it as the contact address
for the launchpad team. For most, this mailing list will just be a much
appreciated blackhole for notifications. For those interested in *all*
notifications, they can of course subscribe. For those who are only
interested in a subset of the notifications (ex. vcs imports), one can
instead join the respectful team and become a direct member.

Cheers,

-- 
Cody A.W. Somerville
Release Engineer
Mainstream Systems Team
Custom Engineering Solutions Group
Canonical OEM Services
Phone: +1 781 850 2087
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Email: cody.somerville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx