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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11-11-29 03:29 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Aaron Bentley
> <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't think we need participants in that API.  I think people
>> would like control over all notifications.  So participants can
>> be selected the same way that other recipients are selected.
> 
> I agree that people want that control. The issue here is dealing
> with race conditions.
> 
> Consider: removing an assignee. You would expect the assignee to
> be notified. But LP no longer knows who the assignee is after they
> are removed. So that knowledge needs to be preserved.

ISTM that you could subscribe $USER to "relationship changes of $USER"
and then include the user in the event tags.

Aaron
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