cck's user reference field is useful

I agree. I need the ability to send an email to the author of a node that is referenced in my custom CCK Content Type.

This is something that is badly needed in my project in the very near future, and there may be the possibility of sponsorship for this feature to be added.

This is a useful idea.

What we need is to be able to do is run another action on the node referenced node (e.g. email author). I think this is the best way to do it.

yeah, for sure. That's what I was thinking.

Is it difficult to have it reach into a node reference and grab the author of that node to send an email to?

Any chance it could be done in the near future? :)

I have spoken with the powers that be, and we are interested in sponsoring the extension of this module.

What kind of a cost and time-line do you think it would be to implement something like this?

Any Progress?

The quoted price was too high for our project (about 4x than what I had expected), so we're making due with the user reference feature in some parts (although it is not ideal, it still does the trick).

We are hoping that either I become more of a Drupal module ninja (unlikely), or someone else helps sponsor, or (better yet) someone else decides to code it on their spare time.

Cheers,
Tyler

You can do this with Workflow NG module in Drupal 5
and with the actions and triggers modules in Drupal 6.