No system to request email reminders for bugs

Bug #120276 reported by Duncan Lithgow
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Every now and then when I'm looking for duplicates I find old bugs that might be fixed but no-one has said anything on them for ages. So I leave a comment asking for the bug to be updated. I would like to be able to put a timer on bugs so that if no new comments arrive within x days/weeks/months I get send a reminder telling me that nothing is happening. I can think of many other situation where this would be good.

* I would set my own bug reports to remind me once every month or two to go back and see if anything has changed. Often a newer version of the software fixes the issue, but no-one will know that and the bug stays 'unfixed' instead of 'Fix Released'. Unless I go back and try the newer version(s).
* A lot of bugs are reported against beta releases, it would be good to get a reminder around the time of the next beta so I can check if the problem is still there.
* Sometimes I just don't have time to look more at the cause of a bug which I would like to help with, getting a reminder a week later would be great.

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

This bug may not be relevant any more. Now inactive bugs get closed automatically. But I would have liked to set this to a 3 month reminder...

Changed in malone:
status: New → Triaged
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

We won't implement the bug auto commenting aspect of this - one of the major complaints we get about Launchpad is that it sends too much mail, and simply asking for comments on a bug that isn't getting attention won't get it fixed - it usually upsets the bug filer and community.

As for a callback on bugs that haven't been touched in N months, I'm pretty sure a small launchpadlib script could do that as a desktop widget for you; we could do something in the web ui I guess - marking this as low priority.

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

This could fit into a dashboard/todolist thingy too.

tags: added: email notifications
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