Mistaken ticket assignment to anonymous

[asmodai@…]

I filed 3 tickets on a component that has no default assignee.

In the ticket overview page these tickets are shown as having an empty owner/assignee in the Owner column.

When you click a ticket though you see it's assigned to anonymous. With 0.10.4 this is left empty, see for example: ​http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/5376 versus ​http://trac.akumaproject.org/ticket/1

[Eli Carter]

It isn't actually assigned to anonymous. authorinfo() translates an empty name to 'anonymous' for presentation. trunk/trac/templates/macros.html@5580#L34​ done in [4488]

[asmodai@…]

I'd personally argue that that is confusing in the ticket-view though. I'd wager, based on my own confusion, that seeing assigned to anonymous is awkward. If it is empty people will not wonder, anonymous will.

[Christian Boos]

'Owner' becomes special as this is the only place where a missing author is left empty instead of being replace by 'anonymous'

[Christian Boos]

Please try the above patch which should also fix the custom query.

[Jeffrey Hulten <jhulten@…>]

Did you intentionally drop the (accepted) with this patch?

<py:if test="ticket.status == 'assigned'">(accepted)</py:if> <!--! FIXME -->

[Christian Boos]

Yes, for a couple of reasons:

• first, saying "(accepted)" when the status is 'assigned' was one of the known "warts" of the standard Trac workflow (see discussion in #2045)
• then, the template should be neutral w.r.t to the chosen workflow, where you can't know if there's an "assigned" state at all
• finally, is it really that interesting to echo in a different way the information already given by the status?

I'm open to suggestions, however.

[Christian Boos]

Patch applied in r5628.