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Rather than doing it for any user who leaves comment, there could be a "Watch this issue" check box in the Update issue form.

The admin can choose whether this checkbox will be checked or unchecked by default.

WDYT?

Well, I wouldn't mind being made watcher by default, as is already the case for the forum, but I'm not sure that would fly for everyone. On the other hand, I'm not sure if it should be an option for every response or comment you give, because most of the time, you have a personal default for such things. What about making it a user preference, i.e. "I want to watch Issues and Forum Threads to which I respond" or something like that?

Felix Schäfer wrote:

"I want to watch Issues and Forum Threads to which I respond" or something like that?

Nice idea

FYI, I wrote a plugin called auto_watchers that almost does this for you. It currently adds people that the issue gets assigned to OR any person that modifies the issue as watchers. It is available on my github account at http://github.com/rchady. No promises on it, but for my use it has been working well. Personally, I feel that features like this one should be kept in a plugin rather than added to the core, just my $.02.

Kamil . wrote:

Felix Schäfer wrote:

"I want to watch Issues and Forum Threads to which I respond" or something like that?

Nice idea

Robert Chady wrote:

I feel that features like this one should be kept in a plugin rather than added to the core, just my $.02.

I do not agree. This should be a basic functionality (like in the forum)

+1 it's very useful

Allow this to be a triple setup

• Per whole system (any reply becomes watcher)
• Per project (only replies to specific projects make a person a watcher)
• per person (only people that want to be watchers on a reply become watchers)

Different people/projects might operate on different setups.

This seems like a really important feature to me; I was surprised to discover that there hasn't been much work on this so far. Any chance of increasing the priority on this?

About to give rchady's plugin a shot. Looks good. Thanks.

+1

+1 We really need this functionality. The plugins that were developed for this are no longer compatible and have not been updated to support the latest versions of Redmine. Please implement this Auto Watch feature. Thank you.

This is a duplicate of older issue #2716

# And wrote in #2716-12:

Try it out: https://github.com/logical-and/redmine_auto_watch. Watchers added on issue update and issue create from: author, assignee, previous assignee if any.

I can confirm that the forked and enhanced version of this plugin which can be found at https://github.com/mephi-ut/redmine_auto_watch works very well for Redmine 3.3.1

nice!

Great!

+1 Great work!

This is a very nice feature indeed. I suggest re-phrasing "Issues I added notes" to "Issues I comment on".

+1

The patch proposed add the current user as watcher for any action made on the issue, not only for "add notes" action. To reproduce, edit an issue attribute without adding any note and observe that the current user is added to the watcher list.

Is this the expected behaviour? Or we should have more granular actions: add note (this issue), assigned to me (#2716) and all actions (the behaviour implemented by the proposed patch).

Is there a version of this that would work with Redmine Version 4.2.3.stable?