Feature #1142
CC list for issues
| Status: | New | Start: | 2008-04-29 | |
| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: | Jean-Philippe Lang | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | Emails | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
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Description
It would be nice to have a CC: list of people to notify when the issue gets modified/commented. The people in the cc list should at minimum be allowed to be people not directly registered with the project. It would be nice if they could be arbitrary email addresses (for example, an internal mailing list or email alias). This might cover #1133 in a more general fashion.
Related issues
| related to Feature #1133 | Email to individuals not registered in Redmine | New | 2008-04-28 |
History
2008-06-20 23:35 - Randy Harmon
This could be implemented using additional permission for maintaining watchers:
User role can:- Add watcher
- View watcher list
- Remove watchers from list
2008-06-21 18:53 - Randy Harmon
Paul Rivier wrote:
What do you propose to prevent abuse ?
Good point. I'd propose a procedural solution for that: that these extra watcher-maintenance features be limited to user-roles who can be trusted to use them responsibly. For instance, on the public Redmine site, I would propose that nobody get extra permissions (which leaves the UI exactly as-is) unless JP decides to trust.
2008-06-22 00:09 - Randy Harmon
Note, acts_as_watcher would have to be modified to implement as I described; side benefit, anything that allows watchers would gain this cc: type of ability.
2008-06-22 02:48 - Carl Nygard
The idea of acts_as_watcher seems to indicate we could have a cc_email table that acts_as_watcher and that you could attach to an issue (or anything else watchable). This would be a simple table, and it would be separate from the user list, and I think that distinction is important to maintain, at least from a user perspective.
I think the CC: list should be a separate entity from the list of watchers. Watchers are users, CC: list is just a set of email addresses.
To prevent abuse, one could send an email notification and require a reply before setting the address active, like the mailing lists do. That would prevent wanton abuse, but would make the procedure for setting a CC: entry much more cumbersome. I was thinking of the bugzilla feature for adding email addresses, but now that I think of it the email addresses have to be registered in the system first. Which brings us right back to registered users... can you tell I'm thinking as I type?
2008-08-08 19:58 - mathew murphy
+1 from me too.
Often I add something to RedMine that someone reported to me by e-mail. I'd like to be able to add them to the CC list so when I update RedMine, I don't have to manually e-mail them.
2008-08-16 00:28 - Thomas Pihl
+1
Sometimes issues get reported by phone. To be able to send the same type of updates to reporter as if it was watched would be perfect. Registered users should cover the need in my option. Someone who needs cc's should register as user to prevent abuse.
To have the rights to set reporter could also be of interest.