I was just flooded with an email for each action I made. As on bugzilla, actions made by me shouldn't send me emails unless I requested them
Phabricator doesn't support this option by default, hence this request must be followed upstream:
Once this setting exists, we will enable it in our instances.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | • chasemp | T34 Configure Phabricator for our needs | |||
| Declined | mmodell | T76 Set "Self Actions" for default user to "Do not send me an email when I take an action". |
qgil wrote on 2014-04-17 22:17:27 (UTC)
Email preferences > Self actions > Do not send me an email when I take an action
Nemo_bis wrote on 2014-06-16 08:26:38 (UTC)
I don't understand if the default configuration was/will be changed or not.
qgil wrote on 2014-06-16 18:48:51 (UTC)
I believe the default configuration can be defined to NOT send emails to users for their own actions, and I agree that this is something we would need to change in the Phabricator instance(s) we create.
aklapper wrote on 2014-06-17 12:04:51 (UTC)
If expectations are based on Bugzilla's default notification settings:
"but not when: The change was made by me" is enabled by default in a Bugzilla user's notification settings.
For a fresh account in fab.wmflabs.org, "Self Actions" is set to "Send me an email when I take an action".
Cannot find a default setting under /config/all.
I'll reopen this and change the task summary; but this feels like low priority and we'd survive if people had to change this setting themselves.
aklapper wrote on 2014-07-23 15:51:22 (UTC)
I've moved this to after day 1 as we do not plan to investigate this and make this block Day 1. Plus Phab currently does not allow setting a default value for this so we'd require custom code.
People can easily change the setting if they get too annoyed and we'll document how to do this (T350).
Nemo_bis wrote on 2014-07-24 00:22:45 (UTC)
People can easily change the setting if they get too annoyed and we'll document how to do this (T350).
It should also be added to the migration plan, so that the bugzilla setting is retained for all imported users.
aklapper wrote on 2014-07-24 10:21:05 (UTC)
Again: We will NOT do this for day 1. Hence nothing to add for migration.
Nemo_bis wrote on 2014-08-15 09:33:02 (UTC)
It makes no sense to import users AFTER day 1. Is there any ticket documenting the fact that you plan a multi-step import of user data?
aklapper wrote on 2014-08-15 11:32:24 (UTC)
Not possible, as I wrote before: "Phab currently does not allow setting a default value for this so we'd require custom code."
I don't get how this is related to the topic of this task.
Again: WONTFIX for Day 1. Very likely WONTFIX/Declined after day 1 too.
Likely enough so I'm also going to close this as WONTFIX/Declined.
Is there any ticket documenting the fact that you plan a multi-step import of user data?
Need to trick @Rush into replying to http://fab.wmflabs.org/T423#20 which is related
This discussion has likewise happened upstream and they relied on data on actual user behavior to settle it.
In looking at this instance:
Users: 789 (count on rows)
Users who have non-default profile preferences: 251
Users who have changed the self-mail default: 26
It seems like actual user behavior favors the existing settings.
@chasemp, would you mind checking this statistic again, now the use of Phabricator in Wikimedia is more mature? Upstream's Chad was wondering about some data below https://secure.phabricator.com/T5358#101769 and I wonder whether a second data point would shed some light.
https://secure.phabricator.com/T5358 has basically been declined. I think we need to decide whether this functionality is worth a local hack.
I'm proposing to decline this request.
It has been four months of regular use of Phabricator and we've seen three comments about the current default behavior. Imagining some more users who might not have spoken up, but with more than 2000 registered users, this does not seem to be an issue for the vast majority, plus we provide documentation how to change the setting if wanted.
I would also vote to close this. I personally do not get emails from my own actions. I don't seem to have any emails settings that manage this