1ec5 created an issue (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6636)
Mentioning a user with `@UserName` in a changeset comment should send them a
notification over e-mail. This makes it easier to rope someone into a changeset
discussion that affects them. As @andrewharvey put it in
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1111#issuecomment-740613023:
> I'd like to do this when commenting on a suspicious changeset by user A, who
> changed something user B originally contributed. By doing @ B I can loop them
> in to make them aware of the change and ask for any further details.
Users have long informally used `@UserName` to refer to another user by their
display name here. Most users understood that the user would only receive a
notification if they were already subscribed to the discussion. Users generally
did not expect this syntax to notify the mentioned user. I think this is
because we didn’t do anything in response to the syntax. It could just as well
have been `$UserName` or `%UserName` for all we cared.
As of #6518 and #6597, we automatically link this syntax to the user profile.
#6635 would encourage this syntax by autocompleting user names. This may cause
some users to think there’s actually something meaningful behind the syntax. If
we don’t send out a notification, there could be a misunderstanding between the
users.
#1387 would supplement e-mail notifications with in-site notifications.
Mentions should hook into that functionality too.
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