I used to have a number of QA contacts in my watchlist, but moved them to be component watches. However, I now get _every_ email for that component, rather than my filtered user watch mails. For example, I turned off receiving mails about the CC field being updated, but now I'm getting them again because there's no granularity for watching components.

I switched my email watches to component watches, hit this, and had to switch back as well. Component watching isn't useful to me if I also have to weed out CCs and the like. For this to work, I think it needs to respect a separate column in the email preferences table for "When my relationship to this bug is:".

Byron, I've been reading the source of User.pm and the component watching extension, and this doesn't look like a trivial fix to me. However, I'd like to propose a temporary workaround that will let me stop being bombarded by CC messages, since I really don't want to have to go through the process of converting my component watches again. From ComponentWatchingExtension.pm: >192 while (my ($uid) = $sth->fetchrow_array) { >193 if (!exists $recipients->{$uid}) { >194 $recipients->{$uid}->{+REL_COMPONENT_WATCHER} = 1; >195 } >196 } Let's change 194 to |$recipients->{$uid}->{+REL_QA} = 1;| which will take us back to the status quo, since that's how we use to fake component watching. Please?

thanks josh; i have a full fix in hand which i'm currently testing, so this issue should be resolved soon :)

Committing to: bzr+ssh://bjones%40mozilla.com@bzr.mozilla.org/bmo/4.0/ modified Bugzilla/User.pm modified extensions/ComponentWatching/Extension.pm added extensions/ComponentWatching/reset-watch-preferences.pl added extensions/ComponentWatching/template/en/default/hook/account/prefs/email-relationships.html.tmpl Committed revision 7658. note to self: after upgrading the server, the extensions/ComponentWatching/reset-watch-preferences.pl script needs to be executed.

Has this actually been deployed yet? (if not, how do I know when?) I just got cc info for a component I'm watching via this that was sent about 15 mins ago - in my email preferences, I've got "The CC field changes" completely turned off.

(In reply to comment #7) > Has this actually been deployed yet? not yet, sorry. it's on our staging environment for final testing > if not, how do I know when? i'll comment here when it's live.

(In reply to comment #8) > i'll comment here when it's live. it's live.

I don't understand why the "I'm added to or removed from this capacity" box is grayed out for Component -- I do want to get email when a bug is moved into a component that I watch.

(In reply to comment #10) > I don't understand why the "I'm added to or removed from this capacity" box > is grayed out for Component -- I do want to get email when a bug is moved > into a component that I watch. that checkbox means "email me when i start watching a component" -- like how the CCed checkbox on the row means "email me when i'm CCed on a bug". if you're watching a component you should always receive a notification when a bug is moved into that component.