Re: [mantisbt-dev] Handling duplicate email addresses.

[Mike E. <pir...@nc...>]

Gianluca Sforna wrote: 
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Mike Emeigh <pir...@nc...> wrote:
> >
> >  I don't agree with enforcing uniqueness on E-mail addresses.
> >
> >  I'm both the Mantis administrator and the QA manager. My workflow is very role-specific, and I did NOT want to have any overlap between my role as administrator and my role as QA manager. The simplest solution was to create two accounts for myself, one for Mantis administration and one for QA-related activities. Since I only have one work-related E-mail address, these are both pointed to the same E-mail.
> 
> I don't know exactly what a "role-specific" workflow is; that's
> probably the reason why I can't see why you can't do both roles with a
> single account.

I *can* do both roles with a single account, but it requires a lot of project-specific configuration to do so, and I wanted to avoid doing that.

> I'm the mantis administrator where I work, and I consider that just a
> regular user who happens to see some more buttons than reporters or
> developers do.

In my environment, the administrator is not a regular user - the administrator has NO project responsibility whatsoever.

(snip)
> However, you need to realize that there is a real need for this rule
> to properly implement an useful feature; with more work we can (maybe)
> accommodate your scenario as well, but if I will have to choose
> between a functional git integration and the ability to have
> duplicated emails in the DB I'll surely choose the former...

My question then is why it's necessary to "globally" restrict Mantis to accomodate a particular set of users. I understand why it's desirable to have working interfaces to version control systems, but I don't see the value in doing so at the expense of flexibility within Mantis. At the very least, I would think it should be configurable.
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