want to subscribe to a merge proposal

Actually voting on the proposal is enough to get all the emails.

Tim

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:26:14AM -0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> People want to subscribe to merge proposals like they can subscribe to
> individual bugs. At the moment the only option is to subscribe to the
> whole branch, which is hard to discover, inconsistent with other similar
> aspects of Launchpad (bugs, answers), and not what people actually want.

+1. FWIW, what I usually do is " vote abstain subscribe". The subcribe
part is optional, I only specify it to make it clear that I'm not really
voting, I just want to get mail.

But having an easy way of subscribing would be much better, since I
don't think most people know how to subscribe to code reviews.

As mentioned before (I remember having this discussion before), the
subscription doesn't have to be tied to the MP itself. Providing an easy
way of subscribing to the source branch would be enough. That way, the
DB model stays the same.

    subscribe bjornt

If voting subscribes you then it's odd that it doesn't put you into
the 'subscribers' column.

2009/12/17 Björn Tillenius <email address hidden>:
> As mentioned before (I remember having this discussion before), the
> subscription doesn't have to be tied to the MP itself. Providing an easy
> way of subscribing to the source branch would be enough. That way, the
> DB model stays the same.

That would be ok as a workaround, and it may be the pragmatic thing to
implement. However it may still cause some user confusion because for
long-lived branches they'll keep getting mailed later, rather than it
being naturally bounded to this review, which I think is what's really
wanted.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

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Martin Pool wrote:
> If voting subscribes you then it's odd that it doesn't put you into
> the 'subscribers' column.

Well, it doesn't actually subscribe you, it just causes you to receive
email. :-)

Aaron
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I think this idea got vetoed at the design stage, but I think we should have another go at doing it now.

see also bug 788819 asking for a way to subscribe to all mps project-wide.

  affectsmetoo