"Your Outstanding Requests" on closed bugs

Neil Horman nhorman at redhat.com
Mon Mar 30 20:17:31 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:27:17AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 09:55 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > 
> > > On 03/30/2015 08:39 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > There are currently no flags set at all.
> > > 
> > > Check the flags on the attachment itself (your second link).
> > 
> > Ohh. there is shows up. How odd. Thanks. Now at least I know how
> > to get rid of it, although I think it should clear out all requests
> > for closed bugs.
> 
> This in practice isn't a safe assumption. People do legitimately 
> discuss closed bugs, including requesting and providing information. 
> "Closed" does not always imply "no further discussion is needed or 
> desired".

I would assert the opposite to be true.  That is to say a state of "closed" by
definition implies that a bug no longer needs discussion or consideration.  In
the converse, a bug that is still receiving updates in the form of comments,
likely should not be in the state "closed".

Neil

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