Comment 5 for bug 375218

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 375218] Re: default review team should show whether it is subscribed

On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 20:31 +0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 15:47:20 Martin Albisetti wrote:
> > Actually, it should subscribe the reviewer by default. There's a bug
> > about that around somewhere which I can't find.
>
> There was a bug and I think it was set to Won't Fix.
>
> Right now we aren't emailing reviewers if they are teams as some people were
> setting the ubuntu developers as the review team and spamming everyone.

AIUI package branches are getting a special behaviour for ubuntu-dev and
ubuntu-core-dev, this would mean this special case isn't needed.

> This was a policy decision that we made at the time.
>
> Individual's that are reviewers on the proposal do get emails sent directly to
> them even if they are not subscribed to either the source or the target
> branch.

Yes they do. But no one knows that in this one special case launchpad
behaves differently vis-a-vis the contact. The general theme is 'team as
bug contact, team gets contacted', etc.

-Rob