Create Version when closing a milestone

[Ryan J Ollos]

It was discussed on the mailing list (​gdiscussion:trac-users:H3FL08nV0Ow), that it would be convenient to create a Version when closing a milestone.

On the ticket edit form, when the Completed checkbox has been selected and the user has TICKET_ADMIN, a checkbox could be displayed below the Retarget checkbox with an input for the Version name. By default, the Version name could be the same as the milestone name. Here is the example markup for milestone Release 1.0.2:

Completed:
Format: MMM d, yyyy h:mm:ss a
Retarget associated open tickets to milestone: None milestone2milestone3milestone4
Comment:
Create a new Version:

The Released date of the Version would be the same as the Completed date of the milestone. Version-milestone relations were also discussed on the mailing list (see also #7802), but that feature is outside the scope of this ticket. That feature might be considered as an extension of #1233, in which Versions and Components will be made first-class objects in the Trac system.

[Robbie <robertvehse@…>]

Is there a way to subscribe to a ticket other than commenting on it?

[Ryan J Ollos]

Commenting on a ticket doesn't actually subscribe you to it. You can subscribe by entering your name and email in prefs and then checking the Add/Remove from Cc: box in the ticket form.

[Peter Suter]

it would be convenient to create a Version when closing a milestone.

Note that the MilestoneToVersion​ sample plugin already provides this feature except the checkbox. (Created after discussion and rejection of such a feature in Trac core. See #6543.)

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to psuter:

Note that the MilestoneToVersion​ sample plugin already provides this feature except the checkbox. (Created after discussion and rejection of such a feature in Trac core. See #6543.)

Thanks for the references. The feature might be suitable for moving into tracopt.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Closing as a duplicate of #6543. The milestone_to_version.py plugin works well.

If the request comes up more frequently, we might consider moving the plugin to tracopt.