[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #3239: Plugin notifications

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#3239: Plugin notifications
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 Reporter:  tazotodua       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  Support Forums  |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion     |
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Changes (by Otto42):

 * status:  reopened => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Comment:

 Let's just go ahead and clear this whole issue up once and for all.

 1. You can subscribe to your plugin's support forum posts with one button
 press. Clicking the subscribe button on your plugin's support forum view
 will cause it to email you all the posts made in that forum. Reviews too.

 2. You are not automatically subscribed because most plugin author's don't
 actually want those emails. Heck, I certainly don't. I use RSS feeds and
 other means to keep up with things. Email-by-default is sort of something
 we don't want to do, because of people not knowing how to unsubscribe, and
 because the forums get a heck of a lot of traffic. The last thing we want
 is for people to mark our emails as spam.

 3. You get committer emails by default, and there is no opt-out for that.
 If we are hosting a plugin for you, then one of the things we do is to
 email you commits made to that plugin. This is a security issue,
 primarily, because if you are not the one making those commits, then you
 *really* need to get the emails when that commit happens, to inform you of
 what happened. If you did make the commit, then that's just confirmation
 that the commit happened correctly. If you don't want this, then don't be
 a committer on the plugin.

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