Re: Bug affecting you should automatically subscribe to the bug

["Michael B. Trausch" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:18:09PM +0100, Tom Berger wrote:
> I've been thinking about this, and I'm not sure whether this is
> necessary. Sure, the UI for marking a bug as affecting you should
> change so that it requires less interaction (and it is changing), but
> if we make it possible for you to mark the bug as affecting you
> without going to a new page, it means that we won't be able to offer
> you a choice whether to subscribe or not. Bugs that you mark as
> affecting you are potentially also bugs with higher volume of traffic,
> and I think many people would rather not subscribe to them because
> they rather not receive a lot of mail.
> 
> Tough question - it would be great to hear more opinions.

I have to say that I agree with the OP---if I click that a bug affects
me, I'd like to be subscribed, or at least make it easy.  The current
page has a form with two radio buttons, "Does this bug affect you?".
Well, when you click the link, return a form with two fields, four
buttons.  The first one would be "Does this bug affect you?" and the
second one would be "Do you want to subscribe to this bug?".  Default
them to "Yes."  Users who hate the mouse---like myself---will thank you,
because the defaults will be sane and reasonable, and for the default
case, will save a great deal of work.

I'd actually be in favor of removing the page hit altogether... add a
message to the top of the current page instead, saying "This bug has
been marked as affecting you, and you have been subscribed to the bug.
If you do not want to be subscribed to the bug, _click_here_ to be
unsubscribed."

There are a few areas in LP that could use streamlining like this,
IMHO.  AJAX would be Launchpad's friend, for sure.

        --- Mike

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