I finally figured out how to use a conditional trigger to automatically set a watcher when an issue is created. Yay! However, it appears that Jira is now going to send me an email to tell me every time that trigger fires, because our notification scheme says I want to be notified when an issue changes. NOT yay, especially since the solution involves setting a dummy field before I can set the value of the real Watcher field. Is there any way to say I don't want to be notified of automated changes?
Probably not, since the control of email notifications is so generally useless. But can't hurt to ask!
Thanks.