Bugzilla 2.17.5

[Joel Peshkin]

Madhava_Challa wrote:

>Thanks. Will the e-mail notifations be easily accomplishable by setting any
>triggers at the database level.. I am not familiar with MYSQL but more
>saying this from an Oracle/Sybase background.. Something I can ask one of my
>developers in my team to build easily ?
>
>Let me know what anyone's gut feel is..
>  
>
Unfortunately, it is not a simple feature to do in a way that takes 
security and scalability into account as well as being straightforward 
to administer.  The problem is not terribly database-centric.  It just 
takes a lot of attention to detail and perl coding.

As is evident from the previous thread, a lot of the developers would be 
very happy to see this done, but nobody has been able to make the time 
to do so.

It is the kind of feature that can be done by a quick hack for a site, 
but doing it *right* so it can be merged into the main code is a lot of 
work.  If you have a developer available who is willing to learn the 
structure of Bugzilla and implement this, the help would be very welcome 
and I am sure that a number of the existing developers will be happy to 
coach and review.  You should be prepared for the real patch to take 
about 10x the amount of work a sophisticated hack would take, especially 
for a programmer's first contribution. (Contributing to peer-reviewed 
projects requires a non-fragile ego)

-Joel