Comment 1 for bug 30861

Sorry for what appears to be strange behaviour.

We decided that the "Comment on most recent change" idea would be the way to deprecate the "status explation" field because:

  * migrating the old status explanations to comments would have resulted in out-of-step comments in the bug discussion

  * we found that status explanations generally contained no information that we couldn't afford to lose

Sorry again for the confusion, but I hope this helps clarify.