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I second your request.

It relates to #398 and #515.

I'm still missing this feature a lot! Voting again!

PS: this feature I'm mising most after we switched from Trac...

I just added ticket #911 which is asking for the same functionality in the Forums.

There could be a permission "Add watchers" so this feature can be granted to certain roles only.

Thank you for pointing out the related issues. I linked them to this issue.

So how can the UI for this feature look like?

My idea is to do it the same way as the "Related issues" feature:

• a box "Watchers" below "Related issues" contaning the current watchers with a delete icon for each one,
• inside the "Watchers" box an Add link which displays a dropdown list with all project members and an Add button on the right of the list.

What do you think?

Yes, that would be great. Mantis does it like that (hope I remember correctly).

Thomas Löber> I think this is good idea.

• Add other users to watch issues
• Edit other users watched issues
• Delete other users watched issues

Also, is enough to use registered users for watch, or also create watch for non-registered users by adding them not from select by directly typing email into add filed? Watched users can be divided into Registered and non registered (registered will be chosen from select box, non-registered by typing email adress into text field). It's just my idea, I think that our company will be happy with watching for registered users inly, what others think?

Limiting watchers to registered users would fit into the current watcher model which has a belongs_to :user relationship.

Do the users who will be added as watchers have to be a member of the current project?

IMHO, I think that limiting to registered users is ok for now.

Glad to see this feature's on the radar. I'm another ex-Trac user who's migrated their project management to Redmine and I'm missing this feature somewhat.

Thomas Eccard Löber/Maxim Krušina: I agree. Trac's implementation of this feature left something to be desired. Simply having a CC: textfield isn't great usability. But being able to simply pick from a list of registered users would be great.

Cheers.

+1 to Thomas Löber's idea for the UI. Trac, Mantis, Bugzilla, Jira - all have this feature, and frankly, I was a bit surprised not to find it in Redmine. It's not a stopper, but it is very useful. And for projects with public-accessible Redmine it has the benefit of showing the 'hot' items (the ones that community needs most) simply by counting the number of watchers, without the need to spam the comments list (e.g. Jira allows sorting issues by number of watchers).

Just pinging the issue to notify all concerned parties of another member with full support for the matter :)
Maxim's new rights proposition would nicely complement the feature..

+1 for the Thomas Löber's UI proposal.

It's a really important feature for me too.

+1 from me.... this is the only really missed feature since our move from bugzilla to redmine