Email a user when their name comes up in trac comments

[ericlewis]

I'd like to mention folks in a ticket when their expertise/knowledge would be appreciated, and make sure they get a notification of it.

[Otto42]

I thought we had this already. Maybe not.

Test: @Notto (my testing account)

[Otto42]

Guess not. I got no email from that.

Seems reasonable, as long as there's some way for individuals to opt-in/out of it somehow. Lots of people get lots of emails and may not want them.

[ericlewis]

Is there a repo for our trac setup?

[Otto42]

Most of the configuration and templates and diff patches and such which are applied to our various trac instances can be found here:

​http://meta.svn.wordpress.org/sites/trunk/trac.wordpress.org/

But those are all indirect copies of the code we're using, the actual trac's themselves are managed internally at present.

[samuelsidler]

@nacin was working on this after his last major trac changes a few months ago. No idea how far he got in implementing it, but he should have a better idea of where things are and how to implement this.

[SergeyBiryukov]

A workaround to get someone's feedback on a ticket is to add their WP.org username to the Cc field (as seen above).

[samuelsidler]

I'm pretty sure this works in core trac, but maybe not in other tracs? Like, I get notifications from the core trac all the time. :)

For this trac, @nacin is bringing those change to meta trac "soon" see #291 (comment 3).

[nacin]

This ticket predates my work to add mentions. Mention support was added all at once in December/January to the Tracs for core, bbPress, BuddyPress, GlotPress, Meta, Plugins, and Themes.