Autowatch Jira

*** NOTE: As of Jira 5.1, autowatch functionality is now built into Jira and you no longer need this plugin ***

Automatically adds a user who creates, edits, or adds a comment on an issue to the list of watchers for the issue, ensuring people who touch an issue are notified of subsequent replies/changes. Unlike using a notification scheme, this plugin allows users to individually opt-out from futher notifications by manually unwatching the issue.

Note that reporters (the person who creates an issue) and others may continue to receive notifications after unwatching an issue based on your notification scheme. While the reporter usually wants to receive notifications, sometimes a reporter may be reporting an issue on behalf of another person and appreciate the ability to unwatch the issue. By deleting "reporter" from your notification scheme and using this plugin, reporters will have the option to unwatch issues when appropriate.

For Jira versions earlier than 4.0:

You will see an error in the plugin listing for Autowatch Jira (like "Missing class: org/springframework/beans/factory/InitializingBean"). Since the plugin is merely a wrapper to load a listener, you can still use Autowatch Jira by manually registering its Listener. Go to Administration -> Listeners (in System section) and add a listener using the following values:

Name: Autowatch Jira Listener Class: org.openmrs.jira.listeners.AutowatchJiraListener

If successful, you should see Autowatch Jira Listener in your list of listeners with edit & delete operations. Note that the AutowatchJiraListener class must be in the classpath (either by installing this plugin and putting up with the error message on the plugin page until you upgrade Jira to 4.0+ or by extracting the AutowatchJiraListener.class from the plugin jar and putting it on your classpath ... putting up with the non-harmful error message on the plugin page is easier).