[MacPorts] #52107: Trac: options to temporary disable emails on tickets that affect many maintainers and commits

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#52107: Trac: options to temporary disable emails on tickets that affect many
maintainers and commits
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 Reporter:  mojca@…         |      Owner:  admin@…
     Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Low             |  Milestone:
Component:  server/hosting  |    Version:
 Keywords:                  |       Port:  trac
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 I opened this to discuss options/ideas to allow "quiet" changes on tickets
 like #39383 or #48365/#52081.

 Some solutions that come to my mind:

 * having a separate field similar to descriptions that would not generate
 email traffic
 * having a checkbox saying "don't send an email when I add these changes"
 * being able to a reply with a checkbox "anyone can edit text of this
 reply" (people could then edit reply without generating more email
 traffic)
 * open 100 new tickets and only display a ticket query in the master
 ticket (I don't like that idea too much though)
 * open two tickets, one to notify developers, the other one without any
 subscribers to actually track the progress (ideally I would like to have
 the ability to include the whole description field from another ticket)

 See also https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/QuietPlugin for a potentially useful
 plugin.

 [https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/2073#comment:33 Citing]:

 > I think it could be good to take the discussion of your use case over to
 the trac-users MailingList. I have ideas on how to solve your issue, and
 would be happy to commit some time to implementing a plugin (if needed),
 for such a big and important open source project that uses Trac ;)
 >
 > If you start a thread on trac-users with your ideas on how to solve it
 we can start discussing potential solutions.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52107>
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