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watcher vs reporter

Added by kevin evans over 11 years ago

I don't get the difference between a watcher and a reporter. I thought perhaps a watcher was a lower impact way to get email updates. And a reporter(higher function) has the ability to go in and get info on projects they are assigned to as reporter. But I cannot find a real answer anywhere. I'm new to Redmine and finding it very useful. Just trying to flesh out some things I don't yet understand.

All thoughts and answers are welcome!!


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RE: watcher vs reporter - Added by Jean-Baptiste Barth over 11 years ago

"Reporter" is a default role you can have on a project. Roles are configurable (by a redmine administrator) and can have specific permissions on a project. Reporter is a project level role : you are "reporter" on "project A".

"Watcher" is not a role in the redmine sense. When you "watch" something (an issue for instance), you're right, it's actually a way to be quasi-sure you'll get notifications if something is updated on the object (unless you've set your notifications to "No email notification"). Mark issues as watched is in fact a way to follow them more closely, to identify your "favorite" issues.

Actually you'll notice that the "Reporter" role doesn't exist on http://redmine.org/ itself. The administrator decided to have two roles, "contributor" and "administrator". But the concept of "watcher" still exists and allow you to receive notifications on a particular issue. It's the same on your own redmine instance: you can configure the "Reporter" role the way you want, even rename it or remove it. But the watcher concept stays as is.

More details on this wiki page if you want: RedmineIssues

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