Doug Cutting wrote:
Nigel Daley wrote:
Should we perhaps only permit project admins to edit & remove comments?
+1
To elaborate on my rationale: comments log a discussion. If folks are
permitted to edit and remove their comments then they can make the
subsequent comments of others irrelevant. Folks should use the same
care before submitting a comment as sending an email.
To make things worse, Jira does not provide a 'diff'. It is difficult
to tell what's been changed. So when folks edit long comments, I
usually just ignore the edit, since I don't want to re-read the long
comment.
It is easier for everyone following an issue if instead of editing,
follow up comments are added. Every comment results in hundreds of
emails. One wastes a large amount of other people's time each time one
edits a comment just to, e.g., correct a typo. If you care, proofread
before you submit, otherwise, let it go.
Doug
Its a social thing; It may be possible to restrict in Jira, but it may
be easier just to persuade people not to do it. Lots of people in apache
have full JIRA admin rights that could ignore your permission
restrictions without even noticing.
-steve
