Teach project_issue views about flagged nodes for following issues [#1284726]

Splitting this off from #34496: [meta] Add Flag module to allow users to subscribe/unsubscribe without posting a comment so it can be handled and tracked separately...

Once we're using flag.module to enable users to "follow" issues without commenting on them, we should fix the default "Your issues" view to use flag instead of the "you wrote it or commented on it" filter.

We don't care about this on drupal.org itself, since we're using tracker2 for our issue views. See #928110: Expose tracker2 tables and columns to views for the gory details and background. Thanks to that and #404084: Add support for tracking flagged nodes we don't have to touch the issue views at all.

But, it'd be good to fix this before a 6.x-1.0 release for people that want to follow issues via flag but who aren't using tracker2.

Comments

Comment #1

marvil07 CreditAttribution: marvil07 commented 21 November 2011 at 21:30

Just to add a simple note on:

We don't care about this on drupal.org itself, since we're using tracker2 for our issue views.

IMHO this is also important to let end users filter issues by the ones they follow. AFAIK follow feature for now is only about sending mail on updates, but to have a consistent list of following issues(i.e a "Issues I follow" checkbox on advanced search) on d.o would be great(instead of just rely on mail).

Hopefully I am right about the fact that there is no current way to have a list of following issues on d.o

Comment #2

dww

we/he/they

CreditAttribution: dww commented 22 November 2011 at 16:24

@marvil07: Nope, not true at all. ;) See Stop subscribing, start following and/or the issues I linked in the OP. All d.o issue views support the notion that "Your issues" == "Issues you're following." See for example http://drupal.org/project/issues/user/marvil07 ;) On advanced search, you can use the "Participant" filter which actually means "following" now. That's a minor UI bug that the filter label hasn't been modified, but that's part of what this issue is trying to resolve.

Cheers,
-Derek