[arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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*.
>
> Thanks. I just turned this on for the pacman bug tracker because I do
> find comments after closing a feature that is a net positive (with
> some trolling drawbacks, of course).

Me thanks! I think it will generally be positive. And in any case you can 
turn it back off if it's abused.


Dimitris


>
> -Dan
>