Assign new ticket to logged in user

Question

In Trac is possible to set the "owner" for a new ticket to the logged in user ? I've tried with different value for default_owner in trac.ini but no luck

Answer 1

From trac.edgewall.org authoritative documentation in Trac tickets (wiki):

default_owner: Name of the default owner. If set to the text "< default >" (the default value), the component owner is used.

So this is cannot help you for sure. There are a few more approaches left, depending on you Genshi template knowledge, Python skills etc. Your requirement is not hard to fulfill, but you cannot get it with stock Trac. You'll need to modify the (new) ticket template or add a relatively small plugin (tested with Trac-1.1.1):

import re
from trac.core import Component, implements
from trac.ticket.api import ITicketManipulator

class DefaultTicketOwnerManipulator(Component):
"""Set ticket owner to logged in user, if available."""

    implements(ITicketManipulator)

    def prepare_ticket(self, req, ticket, fields, actions):
        pass

    def validate_ticket(self, req, ticket):
        if not ticket['owner'] and req.authname:
            ticket['owner'] = req.authname
            # Optionally report-back manipulation, so require a second POST.
            # return [(None, "Owner set to self (%s)" % req.authname)]
        return []

Hint: Use commented-out 'return' in pre-last line to not alter owner silently right on save, good for test too.