Launchpad itself

You have been subscribed to this bug - unnecessarily passive

Bug #289826 reported by Matthew Revell
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Bug Description

When someone subscribes to a bug, Launchpad tells them:

"You have been subscribed to this bug."

This could be simplified to read "You have subscribed to this bug."

Does this same string appear to the user if someone else subscribes them to a bug? If so, we owe it to them to say who has subscribed them. In either case, this sentence is unnecessarily passive.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Bug 97633 is related (but more difficult to fix).

Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Triaged
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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote :

it's not trivial, since it's not enough to change the text. we need to do something different depending on how you ended being subscribed to the bug.

Robert Collins (lifeless)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → High
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

So, I think we can fix this easily by being less clever:
<subscriber> has been subscribed to <object> by <actor>

Will be accurate across the board, regardless of how the subscription was done. If we make subscribed-to messages an implicit subscription for <subscriber-is-me> && <actor-is-not-me> then we won't email a user when they subscribe to a bug, and we will email them when someone else subscribes them - by default.

The notification service might be able to special case actor==subscriber as a future enhancement, but I think we should get the overall story sorted first.

tags: added: notifications
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