Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

[Petteri Räty]

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-general@×××××××××.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