Mr. Meitar Moscovitz wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> 
>> While I can't question if this works for you or not, I think you are
>> ignoring some major usability concerns. If person A only looks at  
>> their
>> tickets, and you (person B) mark one of your tickets as being  
>> related to
>> one of person A's tickets, I would imagine they would want to be
>> informed of that fact. If everyone watches all ticket changes, I  
>> suppose
>> this is a non-issue, but that would be very hard to do on a project of
>> any decent size.
>>
>> --Noah
> 
> It's quite possible that I've never worked on a large-enough project  
> for this to be an issue. It's also possible that this is another  
> example of where the problem is actually a people issue, not a  
> software issue.
> 
> That is, if I am a developer and I wish to mark my ticket as being  
> related to another developer's tickets, whether or not I notify that  
> developer of this fact should be my choice and I may choose to send  
> that developer a message to that effect. In essence, it's still *my*  
> ticket, isn't it? And the keywords I add to it are, at least under  
> this convention, for my own benefit anyway.

It isn't just about your convenience, if I was that other developer I
would certainly want to be notified if you think you need one of my
tickets fixed/implemented since that would possibly change my priorities.

> I'm not saying that this feature wouldn't "be nice to have," because  
> sure, that'd be a nice option. As you mentioned, however, Trac  
> currently doesn't do this, which is obviously only a problem for those  
> people who want that feature *right now* (hence the existence of  
> MasterTicketsPlugin, I assume).
>

Um, Trac does support it, you just install the plugin. If such a plugin
didn't already exist I could see the argument for doing this with
keywords, but the hard part has already been done.

--Noah

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