Feature #39500
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Change the default notification option for users to "Only for things I watch or I am assigned to"
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Description
Currently, the default notification option for a new user is "Only for things I watch or I'm involved in" (internal_name: only_my_events) . This sends notifications when any of the following conditions are met.
- The issue/object is watched by the user
- The issue is created by the user
- The issue is assigned to the user
I think the default option should now be "Only for things I watch or I am assigned to" (internal name: only_assigned) which sends notifications when any of the following conditions are met.
- The issue/object is watched by the user
- The issue is assigned to the user
This is because Redmine 5.1.0 has an auto watch for newly created issues (#38238) and the option is enabled by default for newly created users, and the behavior of the combination of auto watch and only_my_events is somewhat confusing.
Consider the following scenario:
- Admin creates a new user. The user has all auto watches enabled by default, and the email notification option is set to only_my_events
- The user creates an issue. Since all auto watches are enabled for the user, they are added as a watcher
- The user receives notifications about the issue
- The user decides they do not want to receive notifications anymore and unwatches the issue
- But the user still receives notifications because the notification option is only_my_events, and they are the author of the issue
If the default notification option is changed from only_my_events to only_assigned, this confusion will be eliminated. Here is a scenario in this case:
- Admin creates a new user. The user has all auto watches enabled by default, and the email notification option is set to only_assigned
- The user creates an issue. Since all auto watches are enabled for the user, they are added as a watcher
- The user receives notifications about the issue
- The user decides they do not want to receive notifications anymore and unwatches the issue
- The user does not receive notifications anymore because the notification option is only_assigned, and they are no longer a watcher
As illustrated above, in Redmine 5.1, the behavior is more understandable if the notification option defaults to only_assigned.
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Updated by Go MAEDA almost 1 year ago
- File 0001-Refactor-unnecessary-use-of-instance-variables-in-Us.patch 0001-Refactor-unnecessary-use-of-instance-variables-in-Us.patch added
- File 0002-Change-the-default-notification-option-from-only_my_.patch added
The attached patches update the default notification setting from only_my_events to only_assigned and adjust related tests accordingly.
Updated by Go MAEDA 12 months ago
- File 0002-Change-the-default-notification-option-from-only_my_.patch added
Improved patch to keep the behavior when `default_notification_option` is not stored in the database in existing installations.
If `default_notification_option` is not stored in the database, `Setting.default_notification_option` returns `only_my_events` in Redmine 5.1 and earlier. The value should not be changed in existing installations even after upgrading Redmine. See #34863#note-16.
Updated by Go MAEDA 12 months ago
- File 0002-Change-the-default-notification-option-from-only_my_.patch 0002-Change-the-default-notification-option-from-only_my_.patch added
Updated 0002-Change-the-default-notification-option-from-only_my_.patch to use Setting.find_or_create_by! in db/migrate/20231113131245_ensure_default_notification_option_is_stored_in_db.rb.
Updated by Go MAEDA 10 months ago
- Has duplicate Feature #38343: Change the default notification option to "Only for things I watch or I am assigned to" added