"Add to CC" for anonymous with TICKET_APPEND permissions

[Sebastian Krysmanski <sebastian@…>]

Currently when always_notify_updater is set to false an commenter/updater has to put himself/herself to the CC list of a ticket to be notified about future changes. However, to do so the user is required to have TICKET_MODIFY permissions. If an administrator only want the users to be able to comment on tickets (i.e. only grants TICKET_APPEND permissions) the user has no way of being notified about future changes.

So it would be nice to activate this checkbox even when the user only has TICKET_APPEND permissions.

[Christian Boos]

I agree, the fact that the "nosy list" for a ticket is currently implemented by doing a modification on the ticket itself is just an implementation detail. As you said, it makes sense to be able to "follow" a ticket when only having TICKET_APPEND permission.

[Remy Blank]

Would it make more sense to implement a new module managing "nosy lists" for any kind of resource, separately from the resources themselves? That would allow notifications e.g. for wiki page changes.

[Christian Boos]

Replying to rblank:

Would it make more sense to implement a new module managing "nosy lists" for any kind of resource, separately from the resources themselves? That would allow notifications e.g. for wiki page changes.

Well, yes, that's the grand plan behind the new notification scheme of 0.13.

Something that puts all of #1660, #6543 and #8621 together.

[Remy Blank]

I would suggest we postpone this to 0.12.1.

[Christian Boos]

Replying to rblank:

I would suggest we postpone this to 0.12.1.

No problem, I'm in a postponing mood today ;-)

[Christian Boos]

PatchWelcome.

[Itamar Oren]

Just a small observation regarding permissions- while TICKET_APPEND is needed for commenting on a ticket, a user needs only TICKET_VIEW in order to follow a ticket (manually), so logically, a user with TICKET_VIEW should also be able to subscribe to the nosylist / cc (which isn't really considered a change to the ticket..)

[Carsten Klein <carsten.klein@…>]

See also the patch over at #9900 which is a preliminary to this.

[Carsten Klein <carsten.klein@…>]

I also figure that the ticket.html template needs some major refactoring. I have begun dividing it into ticket_view.html (a readonly representation with the ability to add comments/edit own comments, update the cc_entry for oneself provided that a valid email address is available in the session settings, and a ticket_modify.html template which will be suited for both TICKET_MODIFY and TICKET_ADMIN granted users.

In addition, I have added the TICKET_UPDATE_CC permission which will allow anonymous users to update the cc list. The TICKET_EDIT_CC permission was moved to TICKET_MODIFY.

TICKET_EDIT_CC will require additional Javascript and will present a scrollable list of persons to be notified on ticket change, supporting multi-selection for bulk removal of listeners. It will also feature an input text box for adding new persons to the list.

In addition, smaller templates for inclusion with the above will be made available, namely ticket_comments.html for the comments, a ticket_commons.html template for commonly used functions/macros, and so on.

I will open a new issue for this, once the refactoring has been done and a patch can be made available, which then will also be a preliminary to this.