#2954: auto-add to cclist (inspired by roundup's nosy list)
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: jonas
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: ticket system | Version: 0.9.4
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Following a [discussion on the http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac
/2006-March/007398.html trac mail list] about the usefulness of the nosy
list in trac, and how easy to understand it is for the user:
=== Roundup's concept of the nosy list. ===
Basically it's a list of email addresses to be notified about changes to
a ticket.
Whenever a user makes any change to a ticket, they are automatically added
to the nosy list. Essentially, if you express a stake in a ticket, you
are automatically notified for the rest of that ticket's lifecycle. It's
a simple and intuitive model. If it turns out you don't want to be
notified anymore, you can simply delete yourself fromt he CC list.
==== Further details ====
(useful information, but not exact feature requests)
''It's been a while, but IIRC Roundup also has ways for adding default
entries in the nosy list as well as making it pretty easy to put hooks
into the workflow to affect the nosy list.
Roundup's email interface is actually extremely feature-rich (maybe
overkill), handling user registration, ticket submissions, and maybe even
reports (again, hard for me to remember). You can see the basic feature
list here:
http://roundup.sourceforge.net/doc-1.0/features.html''
=== adopting the nosy list in trac ===
If (as proposed here) trac were to adopt the "nosy" concept, it would
mean:
* the cc field (equivalent of the nosy) would be partially managed by
trac
* the initial state of the cc field starts with the username of the
reporter
* when owner is assinged/changed, the owner would be added to the cc
field if not already there
* trac would never automatically remove anyone from the cc (identical to
current behaviour)
* when the cc field is changed
* this behaviour "auto-add to cc list" could be a trac.ini configuration
property
* "always notify owner" and "always notify reporter" (in trac.ini):
* '''could''' stay as they are - if a trac environment wants to ensure
that owner/reporter always gets notified regardless of the cc status.
suggest that the default is false for both.
* Alternatively these two configs could be ignored if "auto-add to cc
list" is on (probably better for users, but confusing for administrators)
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