[arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

[Dan McGee]

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).

-Dan