On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:07:30AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
I'm saying that if a bug report has been closed due to the change being a deliberate design decision, reopening the bug isn't going to change the fact that it was a deliberate design decision.
I understand your perspective just fine but I have had maintainers fix the bug after it was reopened and I have done that for users as a maintainer when I originally thought something wasn't a problem but changed my mind when presented with a coherent argument to reconsider. I don't see it as a hardline rule
Bugzilla's a dreadful place to have discussions. The lack of threading means unpopular decisions tend to just result in large numbers of contentless comments which make meaningful discussion impossible - it's a nightmare to find appropriate context. If a project doesn't have a mailing list then Bugzilla may be the least worst choice, but where it does then make use of it.