Redmine

The current notification settings available to users are fairly limited, and this has become a problem for us.

For example, a typical scenario is that user's would like to receive emails about new issues, and also updates to issues they watch/are associated with. But to updates to updates to other issues they do not care about.

Notifications about new issues are important so one is aware of them, and possibly add them to one's watch list. The second point is important so as to not get drowned in issues updates for issues one is not involved with.

A simple solution to this would be to add a "Also send notifications for all new issues". A more generic approach would be to allow the user to specify (possible independently for each project) for which events ("issue added", "issued edited", "issue edited that I watch / am involved with", (and also for wiki add/edit, etc.). The UI for this could be inspired by the permission settings UI visible to Admins. Thinking about it, perhaps the "Workflow" settings UI would be a closer match...

I actually looked into implementing the simple solution, but I found Redmine's notification system to be a bit "convoluted". Implementing the fully flexible notification settings might require refactoring that code quite a bit.