Comment 4 for bug 111751

Ok, I kind of see the problem.

In that particular case, it would have been better to file a bug about the user's issue and link it to the question. That way, the question would have been 'Answered' (and off your todo list), but the user would still be able to track the long-term resolution of the issue.

But anyway, I'm confirming this bug as we already have a 'Change status' action allowing privileged users to set the status of a question to an arbitrary value. This operation is currently restricted to Launchpad admins and project drivers/registrants. Once we implement 'privileged' answer contacts (answer contacts that are endorsed by the software project as providing "official answers"), we can allow these answer contacts to use the 'Change status' operation.