[off-topic] Re: Automatic e-mail notification when someone ra

[J. Paul Reed]

On 12 Jul 2003 at 20:55:35, Madhava_Challa moved bits on my disk to say:

> So much for the freebie world :-)
> 
> No offence meant anyone. It only speaks about how things have got tough
> in the IT world in general in the US..

Well, I want to be clear here: it's a good idea, and it'll probably get
implemented, but it falls under the general umbrella of email preferences,
and making those not suck (bug 73665).

Now, considering that realistic patch for bug 84876, which is 25 months
old now, was just submitted yesterday, and it's just the first round of
reviewing and testing, it should be clear that asking for a feature--when
its proper solution may include rearchitecting part of the system--can take
awhile.

Sometimes a long while.

But not if you (or a company) are willing to pay for it. If that's
someone's *job*, then it's significantly more likely it will get done in a
timeframe that the company and contractor are happy with (constraints of
the project aside). That's all I was suggesting.

A feature like that will probably go in at some point; the question is: how
long, and are you willing to wait for it?

Later,
Paul
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