'Actions > Subscribe to bug mail' is vague

Bug #240011 reported by Duncan Lithgow
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Undecided
Matthew Revell

Bug Description

1. Minor bug: (Answered below) Is it 'bugmail' or 'bug mail' (with a space)? The current texts are inconsistent.

2. RFE: If I go to (for example) https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc there are tools on the left hand column. The first group is 'Actions' and the first 'Action' is 'Subscribe to bug mail'. If click on that I get the subscriptions page <https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+subscribe> with the explanation "Subscribers automatically receive e-mail notifications of all public bugs. You can change these bugmail settings at any time.".

Nowhere is there an explicit explanation of which package I will receive bugs for, the text 'e-mail notifications of all public bugs' suggests that this system is not package specific at all! So I'm a bit worried about clicking it and flooding my inbox.

After I have subscribed I get the text 'You have been successfully subscribed to vlc in ubuntu.' <https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+subscribe>

May I suggest some changes to those texts?

Change
- Subscribers automatically receive e-mail notifications of all public bugs. You can change these bugmail settings at any time.
To
- Subscribers automatically receive e-mail notifications of all public bugs for the $package package in the $project project. You can change these bugmail settings at any time.

Change
- You have been successfully subscribed to vlc in ubuntu.
To
- You have been successfully subscribed to receive email for all $package bugs reported in $project.

Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

For "bug mail"/"bugmail", see bug 193873.

Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Ursula Junque (ursinha) wrote :

For the misleading text "receive e-mail notifications of all public bugs": bug 319942

Revision history for this message
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

As far as I can see, the Actions menu problem has now gone and we are now consistent wrt bugmail/bug mail, at least in the instances mention in this bug report.

I've dealt with the other aspects of this bug in the linked branch.

Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → matthew.revell
milestone: none → 2.2.2
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in malone:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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