[Savannah-dev] [Bug #651] comment for comment

[nobody]

=================== BUG #651: LATEST MODIFICATIONS ==================
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=651&group_id=11

Changes by: Laurent Julliard <address@hidden>
Date: 2002-Jun-17 09:33 (Europe/Paris)

            What     | Removed                   | Added
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          Resolution | None                      | Remind
              Status | Open                      | Closed
              Effort | 0.00                      | 0.50


------------------ Additional Follow-up Comments ----------------------------
I understand the motivation but I also think that a bug tracking system should 
not become a discussion Forum. The way you describe how bug comments are 
handled is very similar to the original SourceForge Web Forums which the 
Savanaah team has decided to de-activate.

There are probably some cases where complex bugs can lead to loooong 
discussions (I was involved with some Mozilla bugs so I know what you mean) but 
I think it rarely happens. In addition this would have a fairly important 
impact on the current Bug database schema and bug scripts and I prefer to 
collect other similar requests before embarking in such a big change.



=================== BUG #651: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================


Submitted by: okuji                     Project: Savannah                       
Submitted on: 2002-Jun-15 16:22
Category:  Bug Tracker                  Severity:  1 - Enhancement              
Priority:  Normal                       Bug Group:  None                        
Resolution:  Remind                     Assigned to:  ljulliar                  
Status:  Closed                         Effort:  0.50                           

Summary:  comment for comment

Original Submission:  The BTS supports adding comments, but that is only for
original submissions, at the moment. I think it would be
useful to have a feature to add comments for comments but
not for original submissions.

Why is that feature useful? Suppose that a person A
submitted an original bug and another person B added a
comment for the original bug. When you want to reply B's
comment but not A's original comment, you will have to
add a comment for A's submission. So your reply will be
notified A instead of B.

This kind of scenario actually happened. The result was
really confusing.

Thanks,
Okuji


Follow-up Comments
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Date: 2002-Jun-17 09:33             By: ljulliar
I understand the motivation but I also think that a bug tracking system should 
not become a discussion Forum. The way you describe how bug comments are 
handled is very similar to the original SourceForge Web Forums which the 
Savanaah team has decided to de-activate.

There are probably some cases where complex bugs can lead to loooong 
discussions (I was involved with some Mozilla bugs so I know what you mean) but 
I think it rarely happens. In addition this would have a fairly important 
impact on the current Bug database schema and bug scripts and I prefer to 
collect other similar requests before embarking in such a big change.




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