#37728 [NEW]: let users add comments on closed bugs, or at least tell him

From: giunta dot gaetano at sea-aeroportimilano dot it Operating system: Irrelevant PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Website problem Bug description: let users add comments on closed bugs, or at least tell him Description: ------------ It is sometimes frustrating for the user not to be able to add comments when a bug has been marked as BOGUS (or CLOSED). It is especially true when the decision about "bogusness" is questionable, but there are times when some extra insight can be given on closed bugs. And Yes, I have read bug reports for bugs #37542 and #32903. In fact bug #32903, marked closed, is really still open (see point 2 below). 1 - My first request is to let users add comments to closed bugs since it is (imho) a much bigger waste of time (both developer and user) to have a lot of dupe bugs. 2 - If this is deemed not acceptable by the qa team, please at least make it very clear from the beginning, i.e. disable the 'edit submission' button. Right now the casual user is tricked into thinking he might add a comment to closed bugs, and will find out the error message only after spending time typing his comments for naught. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=37728&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37728&r=mysqlcfg