"Your Outstanding Requests" on closed bugs

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 16:17 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> 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".

Dictating use of BZ is usually a futile effort, in Fedora. We have a 
policy on it which is in practice rarely observed by anyone. What 
should or should not be the cause is pretty much moot: what *is* the 
case is that it makes sense to some of our BZ users to not treat 
CLOSED in the way you advocate. BZ is, fundamentally, a tool, and 
tools usually get used in the way that makes sense to the user.
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