[mantisbt-dev] Email Notifications

[Paul R. <pa...@ma...>]

To further clarify to the list given Robert's comment on github the scope
of the changes I'm trying to port from my live work instance of mantis into
a pull request:

* Ability to define a text + html template for an email on a per-project
basis if necessarily.

* Event hooks to allow a plugin author to add their own customization to
the templates or indeed alternative to email. For example jabber
notifications.

* User interface to support end users making the above changes.

We needed functionality at work to send different emails to different types
of users [ i.e. staff + students in our case], and also to receive
notifications outside of email.

Hopefully this should provide a nice tidy-up to the existing functionality.

At first glance, whilst Victor's work would be incompatible with this [they
are two approaches doing the same thing], there's some ideas in Victor's
work that I can pull incorporate whilst trying to pull out the changes we
use at work into a self-contained pull request.

Being unable to base the work instance of mantis off of 1.3 means it's a
fairly tedious task to port stuff around - hence the statement that I
should have a patch ready for the 26th January on github.

Once that's complete, it will be easier to compare and work out any missing
functionality or changes required.