[SAC] Trac notification defaults changed

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I've (hopefully) changed default trac activity notification
user preferences to NEVER notify the updater of a ticket
by mail. This was done by tweaking the [notification-subscriber]
section in `/etc/trac/trac-common.ini` and ensuring no override
existed in local environments (/var/www/trac/env/*/conf/trac.ini).

Current value of that section is:

  [notification-subscriber]
  notify_cc = CarbonCopySubscriber
  notify_owner = TicketOwnerSubscriber
  notify_previous_updater = TicketPreviousUpdatersSubscriber
  notify_reporter = TicketReporterSubscriber
  notify_updater = TicketUpdaterSubscriber
  notify_updater.adverb = never

The syntax isn't very friendly, but it looks like the user
preferences page confirms it's doing what I was after:

  https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/prefs/notification
  (you need to be logged in to see those defaults)

If anyone is against this change please raise a point now.
Rationale for the change is that the updater knows what she
did, so doens't really need a notification, and reduding
email traffic may generally help with load of TracSVN machine.

--strk;

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On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk@kbt.io> wrote:

I've (hopefully) changed default trac activity notification
user preferences to NEVER notify the updater of a ticket
by mail.

...

This change is not clear to me: which trac instances are affected? The
sentence above is not yet clear to me.

If project trac instances are affected (how?) such change needs please
to be communicated before changing anything,e.g. through the
"projects" ML.

thanks,
Markus

PS: For example, the GRASS GIS project depends on trac notifications
to be able to work.

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On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 04:26:54PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk@kbt.io> wrote:
> I've (hopefully) changed default trac activity notification
> user preferences to NEVER notify the updater of a ticket
> by mail.
...

This change is not clear to me: which trac instances are affected? The
sentence above is not yet clear to me.

All instances are affected.
When you change a ticket you are now NOT notified (by default).
Other parties (owner, assignee, those in Cc, any always_cc address)
are all still notified.

If project trac instances are affected (how?) such change needs please
to be communicated before changing anything,e.g. through the
"projects" ML.

I will mail projects.

--strk;