Bug 84623

Summary:	Allow anyone (with an account) to reopen bugs
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	Adam <richard.adam>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) <jforman>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	smithj
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Adam 2005-03-09 05:53:35 UTC

It would be nicer if anyone was allowwed to re-open bugs that have been closed.  They may have discovered a new case in which a bug occurs, but if they're not the original reporter or owner they won't be allowed to reopen it.  Since they're allowed to open a new bug anyway, which is worse than reopening the bug, I don't think it's a security problem.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-13 05:08:08 UTC

This would cause a HUGE political problem, giving "regular users" the option of re-opening bugs that devs or others have closed. Believe me, I understand where you're coming from, but certain quick-on-the-trigger devs would flame you off the planet. It's something we can look into later once I upgrade our bugzilla, but not at this point.

Regards,
Jeffrey

Comment 2 Michael Evans 2006-04-07 00:32:52 UTC

Is now a good time?  The best place for my data is in the original bug that it LOOKS like is fixed, but isn't because of a missed case.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51817