you can have a look @ the tasks plugin. This would allow you to give a task to various persons to approve part of the project/issue still would allow the manager to decide on the final status of the project/issue.
See http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=11912

It is a great plugin and it will solve most of my problems, thanks for posting it!

-It is not sending a mail when a task is completed
-It sends a mail when it is created, but there is nothing after the "You have been given a task :" and the "Needs to be finished by :" lines, so it doesnt send what type of task is assigned to the user.
-However at the history I see who set the task to done, its a little bit inconvenient that the task can be set to done, not just by the assignee!

are these known bugs, or something related to my setup?

we can move the conversation to under 0011912

I have modified the task_action_add.php: I have commented two lines and replaced them with another.

if ( ON == $create_mail ) {
$body = lang_get( 'tasks_body' ). " \n\n";
// $body .= $task_title. " \n\n";
$body .= $title. " \n\n";
$body .= lang_get( 'tasks_date' ). " \n\n";
// $body .= $task_due;
$body .= $bookdate2;
$result = email_bug_reminder( $handler,$bug_id, $body );

it sends the due date and the task description properly. I am not sure though if this is something you have ever faced or not. Would you mind confirm?

if we set the the $task_finish_threshold to admin or manager, and then modify the following line in the task_form.php

--->if ( access_has_bug_level( plugin_config_get( 'tasks_finish_threshold' ), $bug_id ) )

to

--->if ( access_has_bug_level( plugin_config_get( 'tasks_finish_threshold' ), $bug_id ) OR ($row["task_handler"] == $user) )

then the task can be approved only by the user who owns the task (or administrator/manager)

please let me know your thoughts!

This issue is a duplicate of 0011912, so this can be closed. I have moved all the conversations to that issue.

Marking duplicate per reporter