Summary
In Asana it is default behaviour when someone becomes the Assignee of a card he automatically becomes a follow state on this card. So he is getting notified that he now is responsible for this card - what makes totally sense. Right now this is not the case on mattermost boards.
How important this is to me and why
Importance: Medium
Use cases:
- Initial assign someone => the assignee not even knows that
- Chainging the assignee from yourself to someone else => the assignee not even knows that
Right now, the most important person for a card (the assignee) not even knows that he has been assigned, as long he didn't do it on his own. But this is not the way most teams work on boards. If you have been assigned from someone else, you definitely need to get a notification for this. Typing a comment with an '@' sign to a person is an unnecessary double step for an information what is already there and blows up the comment section for administrative information instead of topic relevant information for the card content itself.
Additional context/similar features
I have written two scripts for enabling and disabling the described feature. My idea of the solution was not to trigger a manual notification, instead trigger the follow for this person and then the change automatically is being send to this person, because of the follow for the person:
autofollow_disable.sh
autofollow_enable.sh
I am not a good coder, this was just my idea of implementation. Maybe someone could upgrade my idea. What my generall suggestion of implementation would be is, that in the boards plugin settings one could enable or disable the "auto-follow on being assigend" board wide.
Summary
In Asana it is default behaviour when someone becomes the Assignee of a card he automatically becomes a follow state on this card. So he is getting notified that he now is responsible for this card - what makes totally sense. Right now this is not the case on mattermost boards.
How important this is to me and why
Importance: Medium
Use cases:
Right now, the most important person for a card (the assignee) not even knows that he has been assigned, as long he didn't do it on his own. But this is not the way most teams work on boards. If you have been assigned from someone else, you definitely need to get a notification for this. Typing a comment with an '@' sign to a person is an unnecessary double step for an information what is already there and blows up the comment section for administrative information instead of topic relevant information for the card content itself.
Additional context/similar features
I have written two scripts for enabling and disabling the described feature. My idea of the solution was not to trigger a manual notification, instead trigger the follow for this person and then the change automatically is being send to this person, because of the follow for the person:
autofollow_disable.sh
autofollow_enable.sh
I am not a good coder, this was just my idea of implementation. Maybe someone could upgrade my idea. What my generall suggestion of implementation would be is, that in the boards plugin settings one could enable or disable the "auto-follow on being assigend" board wide.