I set up our email notification to use a wiki page as the source for email
addresses (creatively named "emailnotification"). Anyone who has read/write
to the wiki can add or remove email addresses. This works fine for us so
far but might not work for a open web facing project.


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Mark Janssen <mpc.jans...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Ron Wilson <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Mark Janssen <mpc.jans...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> True with effort all of this could be retrieved from the underlying
>>> sqlite db. The reason I didn't do that is that you need opt out and email
>>> verification to prevent sending spam. I could add your email on every
>>> ticket and you would not be able to stop the notifications without admin
>>> interaction.
>>>
>> I had not considered that because, at work, everyone using Fossil is an
>> employee of the company. For my personal projects,  I don't have to worry
>> about this. For the OSS projects I contribute to, I either send patch files
>> or use github. (Mostly I send patch files.)
>>
>
> Indeed for personal projects and in company projects, what fossil already
> offers should suffice.
>
>
>>  Eventually you are really just rebuilding something like redmine. I
>>> really wanted to make it work, but in the end it just lacks too many
>>> features at the moment.
>>>
>>  I am curious what features are missing.
>>
>>
>>
> Some things that come to mind:
>
> * Ticket notification for admin, logger and followers (this is the big
> one).
> * Email verification to prevent spam.
> * Ability to edit your own comments.
>
> The one thing that fossil gets absolutely right (and most other trackers
> don't) is the ability to log issues anonymously without becoming a spam
> trap.
>
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