Feature #4347
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Contributing to an issue should automatically add the user to the watchers list
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Description
When an user replies to an issue, he/she is definatelly interested in it, so I think that it is natural to add him/her to watchers list automatically, so he/she could obtain notification e-mails.
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Updated by Udit Sajjanhar about 15 years ago
Rather than doing it for any user who leaves comment, there could be a "Watch this issue" check box in the Update issue form.
The admin can choose whether this checkbox will be checked or unchecked by default.
WDYT?
Updated by Felix Schäfer about 15 years ago
Well, I wouldn't mind being made watcher by default, as is already the case for the forum, but I'm not sure that would fly for everyone. On the other hand, I'm not sure if it should be an option for every response or comment you give, because most of the time, you have a personal default for such things. What about making it a user preference, i.e. "I want to watch Issues and Forum Threads to which I respond" or something like that?
Updated by Kamil . about 15 years ago
Felix Schäfer wrote:
"I want to watch Issues and Forum Threads to which I respond" or something like that?
Nice idea
Updated by Robert Chady about 15 years ago
FYI, I wrote a plugin called auto_watchers that almost does this for you. It currently adds people that the issue gets assigned to OR any person that modifies the issue as watchers. It is available on my github account at http://github.com/rchady. No promises on it, but for my use it has been working well. Personally, I feel that features like this one should be kept in a plugin rather than added to the core, just my $.02.
Updated by Udit Sajjanhar about 15 years ago
Kamil . wrote:
+1 for thisFelix Schäfer wrote:
"I want to watch Issues and Forum Threads to which I respond" or something like that?
Nice idea
Updated by Kamil . about 15 years ago
Robert Chady wrote:
I feel that features like this one should be kept in a plugin rather than added to the core, just my $.02.
I do not agree. This should be a basic functionality (like in the forum)
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Updated by Adam Piotr Żochowski over 14 years ago
Allow this to be a triple setup
- Per whole system (any reply becomes watcher)
- Per project (only replies to specific projects make a person a watcher)
- per person (only people that want to be watchers on a reply become watchers)
Different people/projects might operate on different setups.
Updated by Paul Dann almost 14 years ago
This seems like a really important feature to me; I was surprised to discover that there hasn't been much work on this so far. Any chance of increasing the priority on this?
Updated by Sebastian M over 13 years ago
About to give rchady's plugin a shot. Looks good. Thanks.
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Updated by Go MAEDA over 8 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #11520: Make issue be watched automatically when posting to it added
Updated by Go MAEDA over 8 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #11405: Add users as watcher when they leave a comment (Bugzilla parity) added
Updated by Go MAEDA over 8 years ago
- Related to Feature #1737: autowatch issues added
Updated by Oscar Santos over 8 years ago
+1 We really need this functionality. The plugins that were developed for this are no longer compatible and have not been updated to support the latest versions of Redmine. Please implement this Auto Watch feature. Thank you.
Updated by Tobias Fischer about 8 years ago
This is a duplicate of older issue #2716
Updated by Tobias Fischer about 8 years ago
# And wrote in #2716-12:
Try it out: https://github.com/logical-and/redmine_auto_watch. Watchers added on issue update and issue create from: author, assignee, previous assignee if any.
I can confirm that the forked and enhanced version of this plugin which can be found at https://github.com/mephi-ut/redmine_auto_watch works very well for Redmine 3.3.1
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 8 years ago
- Related to Feature #2716: User option to automatically add assignee to watchers added
Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 6 years ago
- File my-account.png my-account.png added
- File users-new.png users-new.png added
- File enable-to-setting-auto-watch-by-account.patch enable-to-setting-auto-watch-by-account.patch added
- User is added as a watcher automatically, When adding a comment to an issue.
- Enable to select "Auto watch" ON / OFF on Account Settings (Default is ON).
- When adding a feature, the existing users's setting is OFF, and After adding a feature, the newly created user's setting is ON by default.
I made a patch and attach it.
('my/account' screen)
('users/new' screen)
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Updated by Go MAEDA almost 6 years ago
- Target version set to Candidate for next major release
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Updated by Vasili Korol over 5 years ago
This is a very nice feature indeed. I suggest re-phrasing "Issues I added notes" to "Issues I comment on".
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Updated by Jens Krämer over 3 years ago
- File 0001-auto-watch-issues-a-user-contributes-to.patch added
- File autowatch.png autowatch.png added
+1
I rebased the patch on current master and slightly changed wording and layout of the user setting:
Updated by Jens Krämer over 3 years ago
- File 0001-auto-watch-issues-a-user-contributes-to.patch 0001-auto-watch-issues-a-user-contributes-to.patch added
please discard the previous patch, it contained some unnecessary files. here's the correct patch.
Updated by Go MAEDA over 3 years ago
- File deleted (
0001-auto-watch-issues-a-user-contributes-to.patch)
Updated by Go MAEDA over 3 years ago
- Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 5.0.0
Setting the target version to 5.0.0.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 3 years ago
The patch proposed add the current user as watcher for any action made on the issue, not only for "add notes" action. To reproduce, edit an issue attribute without adding any note and observe that the current user is added to the watcher list.
Is this the expected behaviour? Or we should have more granular actions: add note (this issue), assigned to me (#2716) and all actions (the behaviour implemented by the proposed patch).
Updated by Walter Thompson almost 3 years ago
Is there a version of this that would work with Redmine Version 4.2.3.stable?
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- Resolution set to Fixed
Patch committed with a slight change, I've renamed the internal option name from add_note to issue_contributed_to in order to match the behaviour and allow future developments.
If it's really required, we can add more granular options, but for now I think it's enough.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 3 years ago
- Subject changed from Replying to an issue should automatically add the user to the watchers list to Contributing to an issue should automatically add the user to the watchers list
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
Updated by Go MAEDA almost 2 years ago
- Related to Feature #38238: Auto watch issues on issue creation added