Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/07/2009 11:51 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Rahul
> Sundaram<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> I would prefer the system to be opt-out. For completely new maintainers
>> or anyone maintaining more than a few packages, it certainly is very
>> useful to get notification via bugzilla about new upstream releases.
> 
> Err, uhm...I'd rather not see bugzilla overloaded with this sort of
> notification. But I would LOVE to see this integrated as notification
> information into the Fedora Community portal concept.
> 
> I know a lot of us rely on bugzilla as the mainstay to a lot of our
> workflow...everything is a nail when all you have is a hammer.
> Everything is a bug when all you have is a bug tracker...But I think
> the maintainer portal concept introduced with the debut of Community
> is something we should start driving enhanced functionality at.

If you make maintainers go to a portal, you have lost. Bugzilla gets you
email notifications and that is what I need. If a portal sends me that
notification, that's fine. I don't care where it comes from.

Rahul