#2623 Email should have ticket information in headers

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2015-02-24
2011-08-16
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Originally created by: cweiske

Many bug tracking/ticketing systems add special headers to the ticket mails, for example the ticket id, ticket status and ticket URL. This makes it easy to build tools around the emails.

The allura ticket mails should have them, too.

Example: PHP bugtracker

X-PHP-Bug: 55432

Example: pear.php.net bugtracker

X-PHP-Bug: 18735
X-PHP-Type: Feature/Change Request
X-PHP-PackageVersion: 1.6.1
X-PHP-Version: 5.3.6
X-PHP-Category: Net_SMTP
X-PHP-OS: 
X-PHP-Status: Open
X-PHP-Old-Status: Open

Example: Launchpad

X-Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; sourcepackage=php5; component=main;
    status=New; importance=Undecided; assignee=None; 
X-Launchpad-Bug-Private: no
X-Launchpad-Bug-Security-Vulnerability: no
X-Launchpad-Bug-Commenters: cweiske
X-Launchpad-Bug-Reporter: Christian Weiske (cweiske)
X-Launchpad-Bug-Modifier: Christian Weiske (cweiske)

Example: Redmine

X-Redmine-Issue-Id: 28502
X-Redmine-Project: typo3v4-core

Example: Chiliproject

X-Chiliproject-Site: Gitorious issue tracker
X-Chiliproject-Host: issues.gitorious.org
X-Chiliproject-Issue-Author: cweiske
X-Chiliproject-Project: gitorious
X-Chiliproject-Issue-Id: 13
X-Mailer: ChiliProject
X-Chiliproject-Type: Issue

Discussion

  • Mark Ramm - 2011-08-18

    I love this idea.

    • milestone: limbo --> backlog
     
  • Dave Brondsema

    Dave Brondsema - 2012-04-20
    • milestone: forge-backlog --> someday
     

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