Hi all,
sorry if this is a dumb question but how can I change my Launchpad settings so that I do not receive an email each time someone works on one of the bugs? Is this the default behaviour for members of the "Inkscape Bug Team" group? Currently I am sent a notification for each and every change, but I'd prefer not to get my inbox flooded and rather browse the list myself when appropriate. It may be just my infamiliarity with Lauchpad (and lack of time for detailed investigation), but I wasn't able to find out how turn this off. Thanks in advance.
Max
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:17:42PM +0100, Maximilian Albert wrote:
Hi all,
sorry if this is a dumb question but how can I change my Launchpad settings so that I do not receive an email each time someone works on one of the bugs? Is this the default behaviour for members of the "Inkscape Bug Team" group? Currently I am sent a notification for each and every change, but I'd prefer not to get my inbox flooded and rather browse the list myself when appropriate. It may be just my infamiliarity with Lauchpad (and lack of time for detailed investigation), but I wasn't able to find out how turn this off. Thanks in advance.
Hi Maximilian,
Yup, one of the outcomes of being on the bug team is being subscribed to the bug traffic. I don't think there's a way to control this individually, but the traditional solution is to set up a filter in your mail program (or with procmail) to put the launchpad mail into its own folder. I suppose you could set up another email account and use it as your primary, to keep it separate from your own email.
I too was pretty irritated by getting all the email from launchpad when I first started using it, but after learning a few tricks I now actually find it extremely useful.
First, one important note - unlike SourceForge, the emails from Launchpad work both ways. You can reply to any launchpad email, and it will automatically get attached to the bug report. :-) It's hard to understate how useful this makes the email notices.
Second, filtering. Every email program is a bit different, so look at your mail software. I use mutt (I like it's threading capabilities), and use procmail for putting the launchpad mail into folders. Here's my recipe:
# .procmailrc :0: * ^X-Generated-By:.*Launchpad launchpad
Of course, if you want to discard all Launchpad emails, just list /dev/null instead of launchpad in the above.
Launchpad puts a lot of info into its headers, which enables you to filter things even more tightly, like doing one thing with emails assigned to you, something else with ones you're directly subbed to, something else for ones that are sent just because you're a bug team member, etc. For more on this, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFilter
Third, if you're using a threading mail reader (like mutt), launchpad sets the reply message id's properly, so they show up threaded. One thing I've found useful in mutt is to color code messages:
# .muttrc
color body yellow default "(rejected)" # rejected bug color index red default '~f daniel@fooishbar.org'
# X Bug Triagers color index green default '~f bryce@bryceharrington.org' # me color index brightgreen default '~f unggnu@googlemail.com' color index brightgreen default '~f tepsipakki@ubuntu.com'
# Noteworthy bug state changes color index default white '~b "Status: .+ => Incomplete"' color index default green '~b "Status: .+ => Fix Released"' color index default red '~b "Status: Fix Released =>"'
So see for example:
http://bryceharrington.org/files/mutt_launchpad.png
So looking at bug 168331 for instance, I can see without even reading the bug that ryan set it to state incomplete (probably asking if the issue still exists or something) since it's "white" (which shows up as grey for me), then Marc replied, and as a result ryan closed it as fixed (green). I can also see that ryan's been kicking ass on Inkscape bug triaging. :-) Go ryan!
Finally, I mentioned above that the email interface is interactive, so you can send replies directly. In fact you can do a lot more, if you prefer email interfaces over web interfaces, including updating states, subscribing or assigning people, tagging, marking dupes, and tons more. See this for details:
https://help.launchpad.net/BugTrackerEmailInterface
Bryce
Hi Bryce,
thanks a lot for this very detailed answer. The thing is that I was expecting a setting in Launchpad and got slightly baffled that I was obviously too stupid to find it. :)
You are right, this can be a very useful feature - although I still think there should be a way to turn this off, for example if people go on holidays and don't happen to have unlimited space in their email accounts. So maybe I'll file a feature request for that.
In any case will your explanations help a lot with setting up the right kinds of filters, even if I currently don't use mutt. I'm sure many other people think the same.
Thanks again, Max
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bryce Harrington Sent: woensdag 28 november 2007 20:40 To: Maximilian Albert Cc: inkscape Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Email management
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:17:42PM +0100, Maximilian Albert wrote:
Hi all,
sorry if this is a dumb question but how can I change my Launchpad settings so that I do not receive an email each time
someone works on
one of the bugs? Is this the default behaviour for members of the "Inkscape Bug Team" group? Currently I am sent a
notification for each
and every change, but I'd prefer not to get my inbox flooded and rather browse the list myself when appropriate. It may be just my infamiliarity with Lauchpad (and lack of time for detailed investigation), but I wasn't able to find out how turn this
off. Thanks in advance.
Hi Maximilian,
Yup, one of the outcomes of being on the bug team is being subscribed to the bug traffic. I don't think there's a way to control this individually, but the traditional solution is to set up a filter in your mail program (or with procmail) to put the launchpad mail into its own folder.
Because of the large traffic, I would really appreciate it if one could set Launchpad to only mail updates to bugs one is subscribed to or has been assigned to. Right now, assigning me to bugs is not as useful anymore since I am very very likely to miss it in the flood of emails.
(don't get me wrong, I like Launchpad, but the mails... it's just too much!)
(please no comments on using a different mail readers, unless someone has found another program that handles MS Exchange *perfectly*)
Thanks a lot, Johan
On 2007-December-04 , at 11:50 , J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bryce Harrington Sent: woensdag 28 november 2007 20:40 To: Maximilian Albert Cc: inkscape Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Email management
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:17:42PM +0100, Maximilian Albert wrote:
Hi all,
sorry if this is a dumb question but how can I change my Launchpad settings so that I do not receive an email each time
someone works on
one of the bugs? Is this the default behaviour for members of the "Inkscape Bug Team" group? Currently I am sent a
notification for each
and every change, but I'd prefer not to get my inbox flooded and rather browse the list myself when appropriate. It may be just my infamiliarity with Lauchpad (and lack of time for detailed investigation), but I wasn't able to find out how turn this
off. Thanks in advance.
Hi Maximilian,
Yup, one of the outcomes of being on the bug team is being subscribed to the bug traffic. I don't think there's a way to control this individually, but the traditional solution is to set up a filter in your mail program (or with procmail) to put the launchpad mail into its own folder.
Because of the large traffic, I would really appreciate it if one could set Launchpad to only mail updates to bugs one is subscribed to or has been assigned to. Right now, assigning me to bugs is not as useful anymore since I am very very likely to miss it in the flood of emails.
(don't get me wrong, I like Launchpad, but the mails... it's just too much!)
(please no comments on using a different mail readers, unless someone has found another program that handles MS Exchange *perfectly*)
I don't know which client you are using but you could define a rule to move all messages to trash execpt those in which: X-Launchpad-Bug: product=inkscape; assignee=Yourname; that would take care of the bugs assigned to you. Don't see how to detect those to which you are subscribed though. Anyone has an exemple of the header of a subscribed-to bug email?
(I'll be glad to know how to do this too)
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:01:31PM +0100, jiho wrote:
On 2007-December-04 , at 11:50 , J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
(please no comments on using a different mail readers, unless someone has found another program that handles MS Exchange *perfectly*)
I don't know which client you are using but you could define a rule to move all messages to trash execpt those in which: X-Launchpad-Bug: product=inkscape; assignee=Yourname; that would take care of the bugs assigned to you. Don't see how to detect those to which you are subscribed though. Anyone has an exemple of the header of a subscribed-to bug email?
(I'll be glad to know how to do this too)
X-Launchpad-Rationale: Assignee this bug is assigned to you
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber direct subscription
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber @whatever subscription of a team you are in
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Bug Contact (whatever) low-priority bulk processing
Bryce
Thanks a bunch!! (sorry for not reading the HowToFilter myself)
Cheers, Johan
-----Original Message----- From: Bryce Harrington [mailto:bryce@...961...] Sent: dinsdag 4 december 2007 19:00 To: jiho Cc: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan); Anhalter42@...173...; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Email management
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:01:31PM +0100, jiho wrote:
On 2007-December-04 , at 11:50 ,
J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
(please no comments on using a different mail readers,
unless someone
has found another program that handles MS Exchange *perfectly*)
I don't know which client you are using but you could
define a rule to
move all messages to trash execpt those in which: X-Launchpad-Bug: product=inkscape; assignee=Yourname; that would take care of the bugs assigned to you. Don't see how to detect those to which you are subscribed though. Anyone has
an exemple
of the header of a subscribed-to bug email?
(I'll be glad to know how to do this too)
From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFilter
X-Launchpad-Rationale: Assignee this bug is assigned to you
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber direct subscription
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber @whatever subscription of a team you are in
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Bug Contact (whatever) low-priority bulk processing
Bryce
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:00 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
X-Launchpad-Rationale: Assignee this bug is assigned to you
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber direct subscription
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber @whatever subscription of a team you are in
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Bug Contact (whatever) low-priority bulk processing
I'll mention that these are hard to use in Evolution. Search folders can only be based on the indexed headers and not any header. You end up having to use filters to actually move things into mailboxes. Makes you feel like you're in the 90's again.
--Ted
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:23:00AM -0800, Ted Gould wrote:
I'll mention that these are hard to use in Evolution. Search folders can only be based on the indexed headers and not any header. You end up having to use filters to actually move things into mailboxes. Makes you feel like you're in the 90's again.
Which is why Mutt is still the best reader on the market :) Every once and a while I try a new system, but there still isn't anything that matches the flexibility and speed of mutt (except MH).
This new bug tracking system sounds pretty cool, though. I would assume there is a pretty good set of procmail filters floating around out there too.
Jeff
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:49 -0500, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:23:00AM -0800, Ted Gould wrote:
I'll mention that these are hard to use in Evolution. Search folders can only be based on the indexed headers and not any header. You end up having to use filters to actually move things into mailboxes. Makes you feel like you're in the 90's again.
Which is why Mutt is still the best reader on the market :) Every once and a while I try a new system, but there still isn't anything that matches the flexibility and speed of mutt (except MH).
This new bug tracking system sounds pretty cool, though. I would assume there is a pretty good set of procmail filters floating around out there too.
Yes, and using those makes me feel like I'm not in the 90's also! ;)
--Ted
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:50:23AM +0100, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
Yup, one of the outcomes of being on the bug team is being subscribed to the bug traffic. I don't think there's a way to control this individually, but the traditional solution is to set up a filter in your mail program (or with procmail) to put the launchpad mail into its own folder.
Because of the large traffic, I would really appreciate it if one could set Launchpad to only mail updates to bugs one is subscribed to or has been assigned to. Right now, assigning me to bugs is not as useful anymore since I am very very likely to miss it in the flood of emails.
Would you mind making sure there is a bug requesting this feature at http://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad?
Bryce
Hi all,
I have left the Inkscape Bug Team on Launchpad, because for a couple of hours now, I have been trying to download almost 200 mails that I know are useless and unimportant for me. Now that my internet connection is slow, launchpad has become a real annoyance, my mailclient cannot complete the download of all mails and therefore it starts over again and again.
Would you mind making sure there is a bug requesting this feature at http://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad?
Tried finding it, but couldn't. So I've submitted a new bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/195759.
When there is improvement on the mail flooding issue (i.e. just a simple toggle to turn it on/off), please let me know and I'll join the bug team again. I suppose this prohobits my bug tracker activity until then.
Johan
-----Original Message----- From: Bryce Harrington [mailto:bryce@...961...] Sent: dinsdag 4 december 2007 18:42 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Cc: Anhalter42@...173...; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Email management
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:50:23AM +0100, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
Yup, one of the outcomes of being on the bug team is being subscribed to the bug traffic. I don't think there's a way to control this individually, but the traditional solution
is to set up
a filter in your mail program (or with procmail) to put the launchpad mail into its own folder.
Because of the large traffic, I would really appreciate it
if one could set Launchpad to only mail updates to bugs one is subscribed to or has been assigned to. Right now, assigning me to bugs is not as useful anymore since I am very very likely to miss it in the flood of emails.
Would you mind making sure there is a bug requesting this feature at http://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad?
Bryce
Johan, cant you just point the launchpad at a different email? set up a gmail account just for it or something? Mine all gos to gmail and is filtered so i can ignore it....
Cheers
John
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:52 AM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
Hi all,
I have left the Inkscape Bug Team on Launchpad, because for a couple of hours now, I have been trying to download almost 200 mails that I know are useless and unimportant for me. Now that my internet connection is slow, launchpad has become a real annoyance, my mailclient cannot complete the download of all mails and therefore it starts over again and again.
Would you mind making sure there is a bug requesting this feature at http://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad?
Tried finding it, but couldn't. So I've submitted a new bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/195759.
When there is improvement on the mail flooding issue (i.e. just a simple toggle to turn it on/off), please let me know and I'll join the bug team again. I suppose this prohobits my bug tracker activity until then.
Johan
-----Original Message----- From: Bryce Harrington [mailto:bryce@...961...] Sent: dinsdag 4 december 2007 18:42 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Cc: Anhalter42@...173...; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Email management
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:50:23AM +0100, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
Yup, one of the outcomes of being on the bug team is being subscribed to the bug traffic. I don't think there's a way to control this individually, but the traditional solution
is to set up
a filter in your mail program (or with procmail) to put the launchpad mail into its own folder.
Because of the large traffic, I would really appreciate it
if one could set Launchpad to only mail updates to bugs one is subscribed to or has been assigned to. Right now, assigning me to bugs is not as useful anymore since I am very very likely to miss it in the flood of emails.
Would you mind making sure there is a bug requesting this feature at http://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad?
Bryce
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Thanks John,
I just did that. Still fed up about the most basic feature still not implemented, which apparantly is not good for my problem solving skills.
Just so you all know: I won't be receiving any mails from launchpad, so when you assign me to a bug, don't expect any quick response, etc.
Johan
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From: inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of john cliff Sent: dinsdag 26 februari 2008 14:00 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan); inkscape Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Email management Johan, cant you just point the launchpad at a different email? set up a gmail account just for it or something? Mine all gos to gmail and is filtered so i can ignore it.... Cheers John On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:52 AM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
Hi all, I have left the Inkscape Bug Team on Launchpad, because for a couple of hours now, I have been trying to download almost 200 mails that I know are useless and unimportant for me. Now that my internet connection is slow, launchpad has become a real annoyance, my mailclient cannot complete the download of all mails and therefore it starts over again and again.
> Would you mind making sure there is a bug requesting this > feature at http://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad? Tried finding it, but couldn't. So I've submitted a new bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/195759. When there is improvement on the mail flooding issue (i.e. just a simple toggle to turn it on/off), please let me know and I'll join the bug team again. I suppose this prohobits my bug tracker activity until then.
Johan > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryce Harrington [mailto:bryce@...961...] > Sent: dinsdag 4 december 2007 18:42 > To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > Cc: Anhalter42@...173...; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Email > management > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:50:23AM +0100, > J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote: > > > Yup, one of the outcomes of being on the bug team is being > > > subscribed to the bug traffic. I don't think there's a way to > > > control this individually, but the traditional solution > is to set up > > > a filter in your mail program (or with procmail) to put the > > > launchpad mail into its own folder. > > > > Because of the large traffic, I would really appreciate it > if one could set Launchpad to only mail updates to bugs one > is subscribed to or has been assigned to. Right now, > assigning me to bugs is not as useful anymore since I am very > very likely to miss it in the flood of emails. > > > > Would you mind making sure there is a bug requesting this > feature at http://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad? > > Bryce > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
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