Comment 4 for bug 482382

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Graham Binns (gmb) wrote : Re: [Bug 482382] Re: Runaway Launchpad bug dups create "Unsubscribe Me Too!" hell

2009/11/14 Paul Sladen <email address hidden>:
> Any ideas?

Yes; I've mailed the internal Launchpad list about a couple of them
and we'll comment here when we chose a solution (also note that it's
EOW for all the LP devs now and not everyone is immediately available
to deal with this).

The ideas I've had so far are:

 1. Nuke the subscriptions (nasty, database muckaboutery).
 2. Make the bug notifications script not send out emails to
subscribers of bugs that are duplicates about changes to the dupe'd
bug.

These are both short term and not particularly pretty. Longer term we
should either have a way to let users opt-in to having their
subscription to a dupe channel notifications about the duplicated bug
or just not send out the notifications to subscribers-from-dupes at
all.