Either you want to add information for justifying the cllosed bug, and in this case it's not a big deal since you basically agree that the bug should be closed. (I understand it can be a bit annoying in some cases though :)) Or you want to add information against the closing of the bug : in this case, it's exactly a request to reopen. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I totally second that. It is really frustrating as a bug reporting user to > end the discussion like this. > It really looks like a "shut-up and stop annoying us" thing... > > I know it did not gave me the motivation to open other bugs. > > I don't see why the discussion should be closed when the bug is. As Damjan > said, some useful information can still be provided even if the bug is > closed. > > > 2009/2/16 Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> > >> 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. >> >> >> -- >> damjan >> >
