[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7772: Allow for separate notes to user on approval and rejection

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#7772: Allow for separate notes to user on approval and rejection
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 Reporter:  coffee2code      |      Owner:  coffee2code
     Type:  defect (bug)     |     Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:
Component:  Photo Directory  |   Keywords:
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 When moderating a photo, there exists a field for the moderator to leave a
 note to the contributor, which gets included in the email sent to the
 user. Previously, a contributor was only ever sent one email per photo. So
 if a photo was published then later rejected, the user would not be
 notified, so there was no need to include a note to the user. However,
 that has since changed so the contributor is now also emailed if a
 published photo of theirs gets rejected. Based on our implementation of
 the note to user field (i.e. a single post meta field), this poses
 problems:

 - The note to user field becomes uneditable once set (since the note
 already got sent to the user, there is no reason to update it after the
 fact)
 - However, if a note was sent on publication, it would also be sent in the
 rejection, without the moderator being able to prevent it or change the
 note.
 - Were moderators allowed to update the note, the original note would get
 overwritten, losing that history.

 The site should separately store and display the note sent to the
 contributor on publication and the note sent to contributor on rejection.

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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7772>
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