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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0010226 | mantisbt | public | 2009-03-18 10:35 | 2014-12-08 00:34 | |
Reporter | jonathh | Assigned To | dhx | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
Product Version | 1.1.6 | ||||
Target Version | 1.3.0-beta.1 | Fixed in Version | 1.3.0-beta.1 | ||
Summary | 0010226: No email on 'update->assign' | ||||
Description | No assignment emails are fired off when you use the 'update issue' then 'assign' as opposed to using the 'assign to' process. | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
Anyone had a look at this issue yet? It is a real thorn! |
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If you are able, can you see if this still occurs with the git trunk code? (from git.mantisbt.org / git.mantisforge.org ) |
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@grangeway: Sorry, can't test with git trunk as I am not running PHP 5.3 @jonathh: This is because Mantis uses the user email preferences for email_on_status instead of email_on_assigned (account_prefs_page.php). You can correct this behaviour on version 1.1.6 by adding one line to function email_collect_recipients in core\email_api.php: old: new: Hope that helps, |
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Thank you, I have tested that in our 1.1.6 'Play Area' and it seems to work. Our main area is now at 1.1.8 do you know of any reason why this fix would not work there? Also, will this fix be in the next release? Thank you so much! |
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I just had a quick look at file changes 1.1.6->1.1.8 and found no reason why it shouldn't work - but I do not have a running 1.1.8 system... Regarding future versions: There have been heaps of changes (also in this area), but at a first glance I couldn't find a change fixing this in 1.2.0rc1. @grangeway: Could you please verify? Cheers, |
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Well I bit the bullet and applied to our 1.1.8 environment and it WORKS. Just FYI. Thank you! |
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I'll assume this is something that was fixed between 1.1.6 and 1.1.8 so marking resolved. |
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@grangeway: This is IMHO a big misunderstanding. What jonathh meant was, please correct me if I'm mistaking, that the patch I posted also works for 1.1.8 ... @jonathh: Did I understand your comment right? |
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@floh: i understood it the same as you did; the same patch (adding unset( $t_status_change[ASSIGNED] ); # <-- new line) works for 1.1.8 as well as for 1.1.6, but does not appear in either of them |
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grangeway, you are mistaken. I applied the fix to both 1.1.6 and 1.1.7 and that fixed it. The bug is most definitely present in vanilla 1.1.8. |
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John, Can you see if there's something needed in the 1.1 branch here. Paul |
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Here some more notes which maybe clarifies the unexpected behaviour: floh |
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In 1.2.x, unset( $t_status_change[ASSIGNED] ); is invalid as per: @@@ thraxisp note that email_on_assigned was co-opted to handle change in handlerIn other words, there used to be an "E-mail on Assigned" preference, but it was renamed/retasked to be "E-mail on Change of Handler" instead. If you try to unset ASSIGNED from that array, you won't get emails when the status is changed to 'assigned'. email_generic() should be called with the second parameter being 'owner' whenever you change the assignee/handler of a bug. If you're only changing the status to 'assigned' (without changing the assignee/handler) then email_generic() should be called with the second argument as the new status... 'assigned'. Note that email notifications based on status changes are NOT user configurable within Mantis (yet). This annoys me a lot too! The notification system within Mantis is in desperate need of a complete overhaul. |
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Meanwihle I had a chance to test emails with 1.2.0rc1: |
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Please try the latest 1.2.x git master, I may have "fixed" this problem in http://git.mantisbt.org/?p=mantisbt.git;a=commitdiff;h=33a8395ebebb972bd03849e6136cff0461a924e6 |
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Great to see someone is working on this. The email_on_assigned notification type is now effectively
<</OLD>> to <<NEW>> The email_on_assigned notification type is now effectively
<</NEW>> it does the trick. Can you please check and then commit to git? Kind regards, floh |
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I understand what you've attempted to do with your patch, but the 'assigned' case is incorrect where you've placed it. It assumes that every Mantis installation uses the default 'assigned' status for issues that have been assigned to a developer. This is not true, as Mantis can be configured with custom statuses where the assigned status becomes something else like 'triaged'. When the bug_assign function is called, the email_collect_recipients function is called with the notification type argument set to 'owner'. This correlates directly with the "Email on Change of Handler" user account preference. The problem is that bug_assign is NOT called in many instances where the assignee field is changed. Therefore the "Email on status change" user preference will come into effect... not "Email on change of handler". I hope you can now see how these two preferences (and most of the other ones too) overlap. In short, the notification system is a complete mess and needs a huge overhaul. |
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Marking as 'acknowledged' not resolved/closed to track that change gets ported to master-2.0.x branch |
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MantisBT: master 035a1302 2010-06-22 20:44 Details Diff |
Refactor bug_update to fix multiple bugs This is a large change to bug_update.php which refactors the code to make it clearer and easier to understand. More importantly this refactoring fixes a number of bugs including the prior ability for reporters (with allow_reporter_reopen enabled) to make any modifications to the bug in question even when they didn't have permission to make those changes. This refactoring brings about a structural change to the bug update process. Previously the update checked a field (or number of fields) and then committed changes to the database before moving on to the next field. Hence it was possible for some of the requested changes to be committed to the database before a validation error kicked in, preventing the remainder of updates from being committed. The new structure of bug_update prevents partial commits from occurring as all validation and access checks are done prior to ANY data being committed to the database. If all the validation checks pass then the user can be safe in knowing that all changes should be committed to the database. If any of the validation checks fail, none of the changes have been committed. One remaining problem with this approach is the race condition whereby the administrator updates access checks between the validation of a field and the attempted committal of a field to the database. As access checks are performed internally within bug_api (and elsewhere), these could actually fail during committal (and after the validation steps in bug_update) if the access levels have changed in the meantime. This is a problem with requires rewriting much of the MantisBT codebase - all for a problem that is unlikely to occur and which is of low severity. Email notifications also need to be sorted out correctly some time in the future as it is hard to determine what the expected course of action should be. This update tries sending an email in this order: resolved, closed, reopened, handler added, status changed, bug updated. Only one email is sent so if the handler and status of an issue are updated at once and a user has refused to receive handler notifications, they won't get any email. This is because we currently give higher priority to notifying users of the addition of a handler to an issue rather than a change of status. Issue 0012097: Refactor bug_update.php Fixes 0009828: Reopen issue access check is wrong Fixes 0010226: No email on 'update->assign' Fixes 0011396: difference between closed and resolved Fixes 0011804: allow_reporter_reopen lets reporter make any update |
Affected Issues 0009828, 0010226, 0011396, 0011782, 0011804, 0012097 |
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mod - bug_update.php | Diff File |