We have recently moved from Mantis to Trac at work for our bug/task tracking, but we have encountered a slight issue with Trac’s workflow management. The issue is that we wanted to be able to move a ticket from the ‘assigned’ state to the ‘new’ state. This is a common scenario if a team member leaves or goes on holiday while they have tasks assigned to them. Quite often you wouldn’t just want to blindly ‘reassign’ these issues to another member, but reset them to their new status so another member can pick the task up when they have the time.
We decided to introduce a new state called ‘reset’ in the trac.ini [ticket-workflow] block which allows us to easily reset a ticket to the ‘new’ status as if it had just been created in the system. The new block looks like this:
reset = * -> new reset.operations = del_resolution reset.permissions = TICKET_MODIFY
Now at the bottom of each ticket, we have an option which says:
[ ] reset Next status will be 'new'
Hope this works for you too :)
