[Development] Suggested improvements to JIRA

[jason.mcdonald at nokia.com]

>1) automatically add every commenter to the Watch list, upon making a comment
> Many people used to Bugzilla don't realise that they will not receive answers
> back unless they add themselves to the Watchers list. This means we never get
> replies that we need.

I have experienced the same frustration, and I would welcome this improvement.

>2) make it possible to add any user to the watcher list
> The only way today of requesting information from someone else is to assign
> the task. That means I can't ask for information from two people.

You already can add other people to the watcher list (or at least I can, but maybe it requires certain permissions).  Click on the number of watchers and see what happens.

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Jason