On 03/13/2010 07:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 03/13/2010 07:07 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> When a bug is marked as fixed it doesn't show up in searches developers >> use so it's a matter of who reads the email and acts upon it. I don't >> see why maintainers would be any more likely to act than an arch team >> comprised of multiple people in the case of bigger arches. Let's not >> forget that users are really supposed to open new bugs instead of >> commenting on the resolved ones although I know there are users out >> there who rather comment on a two year old only distantly related bug >> than open a new one. > > I would love to see a bugzilla feature that would entirely disable > commenting on closed bugs like on archlinux's bugtracking system[1] > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-gene...@archlinux.org/msg11996.html > > That might possibly need "Request reopen" button of somesort, or we > could just always require people to open new bugs >
Maybe just modify Bugzilla so that there's a text besides the comment box or submit button saying that unless the fix is broken open a new bug. Regards, Petteri
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