[support] Assigning tasks in Project Issue

[Larry Garfield]

I see three ways one could make a decently-scaling selector:

1) Make the select box only pull from those people with CVS on the same project.  Pro: very small list.  Con: Doesn't make sense for Drupal itself, and requires CVS module.

2) Wrapper so that if a project is also an OG node, offer a select list of all people subscribed to that OG only.  Pro: integrates with other modules, very configurable; Con: Useless for drupal.org.

3) Replace the select box with an auto-complete field.  Pro: Infinite scaling, useful for Drupal.org, well-established mechanism.  Con: Doesn't auto-suggest as well as a select box.

I think #3 is the way to go for Drupal.org itself, possibly combined with a role restriction.  For your use case, a site-specific patch for any of the above would probably work.  (I likely will need #2 at some point, but #3 would work as well.)

Happy coding. :-)

--Larry Garfield

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:26:12 -0500, "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote:
> I talked to some people a couple of months ago about this, and wanted to
> follow up on the status.  I'm using the Project and Project Issue modules,
> and need a way for a user of a particular role to assign those tasks to
> users other than themself. I know people were debating a bunch of
> different
> approaches, and the key problem seemed to be that it still needed to be
> usable on a large site like drupal.org.  While that's a valid concern, I
> personally only need it functional for a few dozen users for the moment,
> so
> if it's only partway there that's okay.  Could someone make a
> recommendation
> for how I should proceed?
> 
> --
> Tony Yarusso
> http://tonyyarusso.com/
> 
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