On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:30:47 +0100 RedShift <redshift@pandora.be> wrote:
Damjan Georgievski wrote:
I find it pretty frustrating that once bugs are closed in http://bugs.archlinux.org/ you can no longer add comments. The only option you have is request re-opening of the bug, which, I guess, would then frustrate the maintainer who closed the bug.
Adding comments to already closed bugs makes sense to me, since the *discussion* is almost always not over when it's (too hastily?) closed. Sometimes you want to add comments that strengthens the case for closing the report, which also means the report will not be re-opened in the future. Sometimes you need to supply more information.
It's a BUG TRACKER, not a FORUM. If you really want to keep discussing something further, post it to the mailinglist or the forum. You know, the places that were _made_ for discussion? The right tool for the right job please!
Glenn
In theory I would agree, but in practice most bugs don't have corresponding threads on the ML/forums. Why would you start a new thread on a different place if you already have a "thread" on the bugtracker? It's simpler, more clear and a bugtracker works just fine for this. I don't really have time to research right now but on first look I couldn't find a setting for this. Dieter