When viewing a ticket, it would be helpful to know who opened the ticket, similar to the way you can see who added additional comments.

<hr><i>drh added on 2008-11-23 12:00:39:</i><br>
The "Contact" field contains that information, if I understand you correctly.
But the information is an email address. Many people prefer to keep their
email addresses private (to minimize spam, I suppose) and so that Contact field
is not shown unless you are logged in as a user that has the "e" privilege.

To help prevent exposure of email addresses, SQLite does not store the email
address in the artifacts that comprise the ticket.  Instead, it stores a
SHA1 hash of the email address.  A separate database table (the CONCEALED table)
stores a translation from SHA1 hash back to email address.  The CONCEALED table
is not transferred on a "clone" or "sync".  You can get a copy of the CONCEALED
table by doing:

    fossil config pull email

But that will only work if the person doing the pulling has the "e" privilege
set.

<hr><i>anonymous added on 2008-11-24 14:58:24:</i><br>
I was actually referring to the logged in name of the user who reported, not the email address.  I agree that that should not be displayed.

For example, this ticket should say "anonymous" since I do not have a login on this system.

The reason I requested this:  in my company, only the person who opened a bug may close it, the person who fixed it marks it "fixed".  It is helpful to know at a glance who opened a ticket.

<hr><i>eric added on 2008-11-24 15:36:00:</i><br>
The userid is available in the ticket history page, do you need more than that?

<hr><i>anonymous added on 2008-11-24 20:56:32:</i><br>
Yes, it would be nice to have it on the "View Ticket" page (tktview).

<hr><i>kkinnell added on 2008-11-25 18:06:41:</i><br>
You can deal with this by changing your New Ticket HTML.

Setup->Tickets->New Ticket Page

The text edit has a copy of the html+th1 code for doing new tickets,
at the very top is

<nowiki><pre>
&lt;th1>
  if {[info exists submit]} {
     set status Open
     submit_ticket
  }
&lt;/th1>
</pre></nowiki>

If you change that to

<nowiki><pre>
&lt;th1>
  if {![info exists username]} {set username $login}
  set pstr "[htmlize $login]"
  if {$username ne $login} {
      set pstr "$pstr claiming to be [htmlize $username]"
  }
  set pstr "$pstr posted on [date]"
  if {[info exists submit]} {
     set status Open
     set comment "$pstr\n\n$comment"
     submit_ticket
  }
&lt;/th1>
</pre></nowiki>

You'll get 'so & so posted on somewhen' at the very top of the
first comment in a ticket.

Caveat: I haven't tested this quite as extensively as I might...

Th1 isn't documented much&#8212;yet&#8212;but it's basically specialized Tcl.  You can do quite a bit of customization with it, including changing sqlite tables to suit you.

<hr><i>anonymous claiming to be kkinnell added on 2008-11-26 15:43:38:</i><br>
I made that way too hard.  There isn't any need to know anything but the login.  You can just add <nowiki><pre>
    set comment "&lt;i>[htmlize $login] posted on [date]&lt;i>&lt;br>\n$comment"
</pre></nowiki>
above the <code>submit_ticket</code> command.