Ticket Watch List Design Story

Use Cases

• logged in user can watch and unwatch any ticket.
• logged in user can review all tickets that she/he is watching...
• list of users watching a ticket, from ticket's perspective.
• user will receive email notification for all watching tickets...

Design Overview

• we will using the Trac's cc field to save all watchers's email addresses.
• Trac client plugin will associate the email address with user login and user full name, back and forth.
• ticket owner and reporter will automatically watch the ticket.
• wptc_widget_ticket_info_topnav function.

Views and Widgets Need

• [logged in user] view to list all watching tickets for a user
• [anonymous user] view to list all users who are watching a ticket
• image / button for logged in user to watch / unwatch a ticke
• [anonymouns] ability to show the total number of watchers for a ticket.

Functions and Components

• function wptc_watch_ticket($ticket_id, $watching = true, $user_email = null) will be the one for watch and unwatch ticket.
• function wptc_ticket_watchers($ticket_id) will return a list of watchers
• page template to show the list of watchers for a ticket! maybe just a jQuery UI Dialog.
• [HOLD ON] AJAX call back function to call the

Code Samples

Markup for the watch/unwatch and summary button:

<span class="watching" style="
    float: right;
    font-size: 78%;
    border: solid black 1px;
">
    <span class="watching-button" style="
    border-right: solid black 1px;
    margin-right: -4px;
    padding-right: 4px;
    ">Watch</span>
    <span class="watching-sum">21</span>
</span>