Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#8607 new enhancement
Option to skip notification to subscribers when a ticket is updated
Reported by: | Ryan J Ollos | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | next-major-releases |
Component: | notification | Version: | 0.11.5 |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | notification |
Cc: | keshav.kini@…, bebugz@…, tonibony@… | Branch: | |
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Description
Consider the following scenarios for editing a ticket:
- Changing a minor typo in the ticket Description
- Adding some entries to the Keywords field
- Changing the Milestone, Component, Type, etc …
- Adding an attachment, when the attachment was mentioned in the previous message, therefore all users can expect it will be posted to the ticket within minutes and don't need to see another email telling them an attachment was added.
Users on my team receive a lot of email from Trac each day, and it is frustrating and Trac becomes less effective when they receive email notifications when someone is just cleaning up or making some minor changes to a ticket.
Rather than setting up a lot of options in trac.ini that determine who and when a subscriber is notified of changes, I propose that a checkbox is added to the right of Submit Changes. When the Don't Notify Subscribers checkbox is selected, notifications emails are not sent on a ticket update.
The question then arises, what permission should be required for this checkbox to be present. Perhaps someone running a Trac instance does not want users to be able to change a ticket without, for instance, the ticket's owner receiving a notification. I propose two options for the [notification] section of trac.ini.
optional_notify_authenticated = {true, false}
optional_notify_anonymous = {true, false}
Option 1 would show/hide the Don't Notify Subscribers checkbox for authenticated users. Option 2 would show/hide the Don't Notify Subscribers checkbox for anonymous users. Users with TICKET_ADMIN
permission would always see the checkbox.
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Change History (19)
by , 15 years ago
Attachment: | SubmitChangesButton.png added |
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comment:1 by , 15 years ago
comment:2 by , 15 years ago
Cc: | added |
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comment:3 by , 15 years ago
Alternatively perhaps add TICKET_CLEANUP and WIKI_CLEANUP permissions (or some such) to control access to the option. Personally I'd only allow it for minor text edits - I'd want notification of property changes. But yes, there have been times I haven't made minor corrections to avoid sending notification. Sounds like a great hack.
comment:4 by , 15 years ago
Component: | ticket system → notification |
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Keywords: | minoredit added |
Milestone: | → next-major-0.1X |
Owner: | set to |
Sounds interesting, and in line with the discussion in #7758.
But if I may, we are more in need of an active maintainer for the notification subsystem than yet another tweak ;-)
comment:6 by , 13 years ago
Cc: | added |
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comment:7 by , 13 years ago
Cc: | added |
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comment:8 by , 13 years ago
For these impatient like me wouldn't that be a quick-n-dirty solution to make custom boolean field on ticket (trac.ini) and hardcode/patch the notification to analyse of this field to completely off the notification. As the proposal prior to proper longterm solution.
comment:10 by , 12 years ago
See also #10574 that also addresses the problem of ticket statistics comment overhead, and suggests to split into 2 ticket comment types where only the usercomment-releated stuff is posted as notification.
comment:12 by , 10 years ago
Reporter: | changed from | to
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comment:13 by , 10 years ago
Keywords: | notification added; minoredit removed |
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comment:14 by , 10 years ago
#11535 was closed as a partial duplicate / wontfix.
Integrating QuietPlugin functionality was suggested, or even a subscriber that allows configuring rules like Never Notify: Updater was in quiet mode in the notification user preferences.
comment:15 by , 10 years ago
Cc: | removed |
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comment:16 by , 9 years ago
#12067 was closed as a duplicate, requesting the ability to disable notifications from batch ticket modification.
comment:17 by , 9 years ago
Owner: | removed |
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comment:18 by , 9 years ago
Cc: | added |
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Request-A-Hack on Track-Hacks.org: #5495.