Redmine

Hello,
I am facing the following problem.

We have installed Redmine for company use and created a custom tracker for keeping track of deployment of our software. The statuses are Deployed in test environment, Deployed in production etc., each version of the software has its own issue. These trackers are used in almost all projects.

And now the problem: there is a group of people (server administrators etc.) that have to be notified of each of these deployments. Of course, they can be added to each project and manually added as watchers for each issue of that tracker. But I am afraid people might forgot to add them and it is complicated if you want to add another administrator. I wanted more versatile solution.

So I started looking at the Atom feeds but with no luck (I would prefer e-mail for the notifications but Atom shall be sufficient).

• The ''issue feed'' does not provide journal. Thus status change (e.g. deployed in test to deployed in production) is not directly visible.
  • For example, Liferea (feed reader) only silently changes the title without any notification that something has changed.
• The ''activity feed'' takes care of that but I was not able to filter out single tracker only.
  • I tried adding extra parameter to the feed URL (such as tracker=4) but none affected the output.

Does Redmine offer such functionality, e.g. through some undocumented URL parameter?

If not, how difficult it would be to add? I mean I have very little experience with Ruby but with some directions to documentation/sources I might be able to hack something.

I can end with some server side script that would filter/combine information from existing feeds/XML outputs but I would prefer something that would work out of the box.

Thanks!