Redmine

The current format for E-Mail notifications is very raw and hard to parse.

I like the format that MantisBT uses for its notifications, so I tried to adapt it for redmine.
Here is the result:

Subject: [CoreDev !#829]: Segmentation Fault on button click

The following issue has been has been UPDATED by John Wayne:

[CoreDev !#829]: Segmentation Fault on button click
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http://redmine/issues/show/217
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Created By :              Bob Hope
Assigned To:              John Wayne
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Project:                  CoreDev
Issue ID:                 217
Category:                 Bug
Status:                   Assigned
Priority:                 Urgent
Target version:           1.7
Progress:                 [###.......] 30%
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Date Submitted:           2008-02-14 01:24 CET
Last Modified:            2008-03-21 17:22 CET
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Ticket Subject and Description:

Segmentation fault on button click

When I press any button in the UI the application crashes
with SIGSEGV. This happens in the Windows, Linux and Atari build.

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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          164     User reports random crashes when he doe...
related to          199     Boss says our application sucks, when t...
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 Jack Ass - 2008-02-17 17:23
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 * Description UPDATED
 * Priority Changed from Irrelevant to Normal

Yes, I could reproduce this in the atari build.

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 Barbie Ken - 2008-02-17 19:23
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 * Priority Changed from Normal to Urgent

This sucks, can we have a fix?
Urgent, all customers have terminated their contracts

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 Frank CEO - 2008-02-17 20:50
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 * Assigned to John Wayne

You're all fired. Except John, you go fix it.
Then you'll be fired, too.

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 John Wayne - 2008-02-21 17:22
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 * Progress updated: 20% -> 30%

Working on it.

To someone who has never used MantisBT this may, at a glance, look like information overload.
Let me point out the advantages:

1. The format is well-structured. Everything is always in the same place. This is easier on the eyes than the "random" layout that redmine uses currently.
2. Each E-Mail contains the complete change-history of the ticket. There is no need to open a webbrowser to inspect a changed ticket. The E-Mail is nearly equivalent to the browser view.

I propose to make this (or something similar) the new default template format for redmine.
What do you guys think?