On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone have an opinion on this?
In my eyes, I imagine the kind of people who want this feature simply wish to argue about the closing. I've had to deal with enough PM requests in the past to know that this _does_ happen.
Speaking from the pacman side more than the package-related bugs side, I've often wanted to add comments to closed issues in the past and have been unable to. For things like a performance bug, it is often helpful a few days down the road to post results of the fix once a few people have tested it. It doesn't make sense to leave the bug open if it is fixed in git, but many people that followed the bug would find it interesting. Other times I get a reopen request asking "what version will this be fixed in?" That is exactly the thing that is better done in comments, because 1) if I do reopen, I have to retype their request and 2) then it is there for everyone to see. Finally, we never get a chance to see it, because on other bug trackers people often leave nice comments like "thanks for fixing so quickly!" or "works for me now too, thanks a lot". If you wonder why you never feel appreciated for fixing bugs around here, it might be because our policy leaves no way to give or receive thanks. It sounds like an odd thing, but I can see people getting burned out with fixing issues if they never once get positive feedback or a well-deserved pat on the back. -Dan