[arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 21:59:42 CET 2010


> Commenting on closed bugs is not doable in Flyspray.

Actually it is doable, it's a configuration option per project.
Check http://bugs.archlinux.org/pm/proj1/prefs

> More-over, I think it is a bad idea. The only reason people want
> commenting on closed bugs is so that they can argue with the
> developers

assuming malicious users up-front?

> - give reasons why the bug shouldn't be closed. That's what
> a reopen request is for. If that fails, then it's time to discuss it
> directly with the developer in question

I see at least several good uses of allowing comments on closed bugs,
sometimes even adding aditional reasons why the bug needs to *stay
closed*.


-- 
damjan


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