How a watcher should work properly?
Added by Milan Brabec about 8 years ago
Hi, I am really confused with the watcher functionality. Who can be a watcher in general, so that he gets email notification at least?
If a create a user (let's say 'WatcherUser'), and give it a role in a certain private project, which has permissions to 'Only issues created by or assigned to', then such a user, even when added to an non-private issue as a watcher, gets no notification and can't even see any issue at all. What is the purpose of adding a watcher at all then?
Even when following Jean-Phillippe Lang's comment from #7412#note-13, that "watchers were designed for notification purpose only", how to achieve this notification, if the watcher gets no permission to a given issue?
Someone informed me, that such a watcher needs permission to such an issue, but if I change general permission for that given role to 'All issues in visible project', then such a watcher sees all issues in the project, not only those, where being added to as a watcher. And that is not expected of course.
I would appreciate, if someone explains me, how to set Remine properly to leverage the watcher functionality at all. Thanks a lot. Milan