[Tracker-discuss] [issue141] Should send email on assignment

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl added the comment:

Paul Dubois schrieb:

> We did go through this discussion before; my experience was that
> such a change is undesirable, causing too much mail for trivial
> administrative changes. With your fix the assignee will get mail
> unless you do not enter some comment like 'Assigning to foo.', as in
> standard roundup. We also have the 'busybody' reactor that does send
> mail on every change to a mailing list. (Recall you had to fool with
> it so it would make a sensible message when no text had been
> supplied.) Can we just try it as-is for a while? The number of
> people who 'assign' issues to people other than themselves must not
> be very large and as long as they are aware of the need to enter a
> short message all will be well. 

Even though I'm aware of that, I'll still be annoyed about it every time
I type in a pointless "Assigning to foo" in the change note field.

Georg

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