Would be cool to have a feature to periodically send you out a reminder about a bug. This would be in a separate table like votes, and shouldn't change the bug's last changed date. It shouldn't ever notify anyone else (we might want to send an initial message to the user), and should be totally private IMO. We should restrict this to weekly multiples so this can be a cron job and we have scope to aggregate multiple reminders to one user. Something like: [X] Send me a reminder mail about this bug every [_1_] week(s). Optionally, we may also want to add reminder text, so the user remembers why they're being reminded. You should be able to query and show in bug lists whether a bug is reminded by you - I don't think we need to make query or bug list handle the reminder text or interval.

I've seen a lot of bug reports in the past couple days ;) but this one kinda jumped out at me... There should be something special about this reminder e- mail so it could be easily filtered seperate of the normal bugmail. Other than that, I don't have lot to add (esp. at this hour!).

See also the discussion in bug 35839.

moving to real milestones...

What about a 'Remind me on a particular date', or 'Remind me by this particular date' for one-shot reminders?

-> Bugzilla product, General component, reassigning.

*** Bug 96985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Some ideas from bug #96985: You could put a bug in a status called REMIND. REMIND is considered "open" by Bugzilla, to avoid all the problems we've had in the past with the REMIND resolution. But engineers can still remove REMIND bugs from their radars by setting up appropriate queries. You can also have one off reminders. If you do this in the REMIND state, the reminder should "reopen" the bug.

Actions could look something like this for a resolved unconfirmed bug: ( ) Move to UNCONFIRMED (reopen) ( ) Move to REOPENED (reopen, confirm) ( ) Move to VERIFIED

Ignore that last comment, wrong bug.

This feature would be of great issue with the Tech Evangelism effort. Currently, we try to do this through Target Milestones, but in my case, it does not work very well. For us, we do the following: 1. Diagnose site and find a fix. 2. Contact Webmaster to establish a date that problem will be fixed. 3. Set the month as the Target Milestone. Hopefully, we will remember to periodically triage through the ASSIGNED bugs with Target Milestones to make sure the bug has been fixed. The problem, however, is that we have a large number of bugs and if the Target Milestone is set to Dec, we do not know if it is Dec 2000, 2001, 2002, etc. If Quality Assurance volunteers in that project could set a reminder date like commment #4, then this issue could be circumvented.

I feel that this better fits in the Email Notifications component.

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them.

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them. (sorry for the spam if you got this twice, it didn't take right the first time)

While not as straightforward, for regular reminders it seems to me that this can be done with the 2.19 whining possibilities, can't it?

Hello, All! I've written an additional module to bugzilla and I am wondering if it may be of some interest to anyone. Bugzilla_reminder consists of two PHP-scripts: one creating an additional reminder-creation window. After user provides information, e-mail(s) and date info is written into separate MySQL table and longdesc is updated. The second script checks remindings periodically and sends them if necessary.

This is main window, where you can input Date&Time, enter Message and e-mail.

You'll see this message after entering data

*** Bug 255562 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Yes, this can be done with a combination of tagging and whining. As tagging gets even easier, this will improve.