[Python-Dev] Changing SF tracker email preferences

[Thomas Heller]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> When a new bug or patch is posted to a SF tracker, an email gets sent
> to python-bugs-list@python.org or patches@python.org.
> 
> But...  when anything is changed or added to those trackers, an email
> is *also* sent to those lists.
> 
> I would like to receive the first kind of traffic (new tracker issues)
> but not the second kind, except for those tracker issues in which I am
> interested (which I can get by explicit turning on monitoring of those
> issues, or by following up).
> 
> The SF tracker admin has an option to allow this: all I have to do is
> uncheck the box that says "Send email on all changes".  I would really
> like to do this.
> 
> Would anybody who is currently receiving bugs or patches traffic be
> bothered if I made this change?

I find it sometimes interesting to receive these mails and read the
comments which are posted, I cannot decide from the item description
if I'm interested in this item or not.

(You could also route the mails them into the trashcan, and read them with a
newsreader at news.gmane.org:gmane.comp.python.bugs or patches.)

Thomas