Patch #33329
closedImprove watchers functionality to mark the users that are watching a non visible object and to not return watchers that cannot see the object
Description
The scope of this issue is to decrease the confusion created by the actual watchers implementation which allows you to add to an object (issue, wiki, news) a watcher who doesn't have permissions to view that object. There are multiple open issues generated by this issue, but I opted to create a new issue, clean, to discuss some proposal that I have in plan. At the end, depending on what it's implemented, we close those issues.
I made three patches:
1. 0001-Fix-typo-in-find_objects_from_params.patch
It just fix a typo in the code.
2. 0002-Do-not-propose-watchers-that-are-not-allowed-to-see-.patch
The patch changes the behaviour of method users_for_new_watcher
to reject users who doesn't have the permissions to view the object. This change applies only when the search is made for one object (eg: issue), not for multiple objects (add bulk watchers).
3. 0003-Show-an-warning-message-for-watchers-who-cannot-view
Because the second patch doesn't cover all the cases and it's difficult to cover all the cases, I've added in the UI an warning next to an invalid watcher with the following warning message: "Invalid watcher: User will not receive any notifications because it does not have access to view this object.". Any feedback on the message is welcome.
What else I have in mind:
4. Limit the number of results returned by the auto complete method to a maximum 20 or 30 objects in order to avoid performance issues (we need to iterate through each object to check the visibility). Right now, when a term is used in the search, the autocomplete returns all the results found, else returns the first 100 results. It's hard to believe that an user prefer to scroll down in the list of returned watchers instead of typing a more complete search term.
5. Return an error or an warning message when a watcher is added to an object not visible.
Files
Related issues
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 4 years ago
- Related to Defect #22977: A project member has no access and gets no notification, when being a watcher of the issue added
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 4 years ago
- Related to Defect #5679: Watchers not cleaned/updated when deleting/moving watched object added
Updated by Go MAEDA over 4 years ago
Looks good to me.
A similar patch #16133 was rejected 5 years ago due to performance concerns when a project has a lot of members, but I think 0002-Do-not-propose-watchers-that-are-not-allowed-to-see-.patch does not introduce the performance problem because watchable_object.visible?
is only called 200 times, only when the user open Add watchers dialog.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 4 years ago
- Assignee deleted (
Marius BĂLTEANU) - Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 4.2.0
Go MAEDA wrote:
Looks good to me.
A similar patch #16133 was rejected 5 years ago due to performance concerns when a project has a lot of members, but I think 0002-Do-not-propose-watchers-that-are-not-allowed-to-see-.patch does not introduce the performance problem because
watchable_object.visible?
is only called 200 times, only when the user open Add watchers dialog.
I'm adding this to 4.2.0 in order to discuss and find some solutions to fix the current annoying behaviour. We can limit the number of calls made by watchable_object.visible?
by limiting the number of results returned from the database (proposal nr#4). Regarding patch nr#3, if the overall idea is accepted, we can load the watchers async always or only when there are more than x watchers. I'm sure that we can find good solutions without performance degradation.
Updated by Go MAEDA over 3 years ago
- Related to Defect #11888: No e-mail notification for non-members who are watchers added
Updated by Go MAEDA over 3 years ago
- Category set to Issues
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee set to Go MAEDA
Committed the patches. Thank you for improving Redmine.
Updated by Go MAEDA over 3 years ago
- Related to Patch #16133: Available watchers on new issue form include users who cannot even view issues added
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 3 years ago
- Related to Defect #35192: Watchers pop up window appears after a long time added
Updated by Holger Just over 2 years ago
- Related to Defect #36549: Issues with watchers and restricted tickets added
Updated by Holger Just about 2 years ago
- Related to Defect #37224: Add watchers to issue added