On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Ron Wilson <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Mark Janssen <mpc.jans...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> True with effort all of this could be retrieved from the underlying
>> sqlite db. The reason I didn't do that is that you need opt out and email
>> verification to prevent sending spam. I could add your email on every
>> ticket and you would not be able to stop the notifications without admin
>> interaction.
>>
> I had not considered that because, at work, everyone using Fossil is an
> employee of the company. For my personal projects,  I don't have to worry
> about this. For the OSS projects I contribute to, I either send patch files
> or use github. (Mostly I send patch files.)
>

Indeed for personal projects and in company projects, what fossil already
offers should suffice.


>  Eventually you are really just rebuilding something like redmine. I
>> really wanted to make it work, but in the end it just lacks too many
>> features at the moment.
>>
>  I am curious what features are missing.
>
>
>
Some things that come to mind:

* Ticket notification for admin, logger and followers (this is the big one).
* Email verification to prevent spam.
* Ability to edit your own comments.

The one thing that fossil gets absolutely right (and most other trackers
don't) is the ability to log issues anonymously without becoming a spam
trap.
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