Re: Issue tracker - "Block user comments" abuse and alternatives

Hi Den man. 7. jan. 2019 kl. 01.38 skrev Philippe Cloutier <chealer@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > I reported a bug on the issue tracker in > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53255 > Hannes "bjori" Magnusson later marked the ticket as "Not a bug", insulting > myself (and apparently other contributors who had previously reported the same issue) at the same > time. Peter Kokot later confirmed the issue, which is caused by an obvious concurrency bug, as can > be seen in https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66653 > > In order to ensure this contempt is over, I meant to warn the responsible by commenting in > #53255. Unfortunately, that very same contributor went as far as "blocking user comments" > in this ticket, and the tracker considers me as a "user", so I cannot do that. Therefore: > 1. Can someone with sufficient permissions unblock commenting in #53255? > 2. While no security at all was needed in this case, in general, soft security support > minimizes the temptation to put in place "hard security". Does the ITS allow hiding > comments considered as useless, as Bugzilla allows, instead of blocking? I re-opened the issue. As a note, please keep issues like this to the webmaster list as internals is purely language development. Thank you! -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net