Redmine Notification Center plugin

This plugin adds a "Notifications" tab to "My account" page. It allows you to control which notifications are sent to you with fine-grained rules and exceptions.

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Disclaimer

This plugin totally replaces the default mailer in Redmine. Hence it has to be carefully validated for each Redmine version. The plugin voluntarily breaks on non-validated Redmine versions, it won't even boot in these cases. It cannot run under Redmine < 2.1.0 because it relies on the jQuery javascript framework.

For now, it has only been tested on Redmine 2.1.0 and 2.1.6. For now the plugin forces you to run Redmine version 2.1.6.

Preferences storage (draft)

Typical preferences for mail notifications are stored directly in the User table and in each Member table with the mail_notification column.

Preferences for this plugin are now stored in current user's UserPreference, which in fact serializes structures in one database column. It gives us some flexibility and allows storing nested Hashes/Arrays/Strings/Integers.

Here's how the structure looks (ruby-ish syntax):

:notification_options => {
  :none_at_all => "1|0",
  :all_events  => "1|0",
  :by_module   => {
    :issue_tracking => "all|none|custom",
    :issue_tracking_custom => {
      :if_author   => "1|0",
      :if_assignee => "1|0",
      :others      => "1|0"
    },
    :news      => "all|none",
    :documents => "all|none",
    :files     => "all|none",
    :boards    => "all|none",
    :wiki      => "all|none"
  },
  :exceptions => {
    :no_self_notified     => "1|0",
    :for_projects         => [1, 4, 7],
    :for_roles            => [2, 4],
    :no_issue_updates     => "1|0",
    :for_issue_trackers   => [1, 2],
    :for_issue_priorities => [3]
  },
  :other_notification_address => "mail@example.net"
}

Default options look like this:

:notification_options => {
  :none_at_all => "0",
  :all_events  => "1",
  :by_module   => {
    :issue_tracking => "all",
    :issue_tracking_custom => {
      :if_author   => "1",
      :if_assignee => "1",
      :others      => "1"
    },
    :news      => "all",
    :documents => "all",
    :files     => "all",
    :boards    => "all",
    :wiki      => "all"
  },
  :exceptions => {
    :no_self_notified     => "0",
    :for_projects         => [],
    :for_roles            => [],
    :no_issue_updates     => "0",
    :for_issue_trackers   => [],
    :for_issue_priorities => []
  },
  :other_notification_address => nil
}

Convenience methods to access this hash, sane default values and parsing details are available through the User model.