Whisper entire topic?

That might not be so bad. Not sure I care if regular users can see the titles.

My current workaround is similar:

  1. Create topic with properly descriptive name.
  2. Body will consist of “Tracking bug #”
  3. Save
  4. Edit post and put the # from the URL in so body now reads “Tracking bug #138”
  5. Whisper all additional replies

Now I just add my dev group the the ‘Whisper allowed groups’
Not as elegant as I’d like, but writing up the SOP for it is pretty straight forward.

This has the added benefit of allowing a regular user to add a post to the topic if they have a bug that appears to be similar to the title.