Comment 2 for bug 451301

That's a good question. I don't know the answer.

It makes me think that the concept of bug reporter is not that useful. Currently it's something like "the first person to report the specified symptoms anywhere". For bugs with more than one task it doesn't tell us much; the reporter of each task is more interesting.

If bug tasks could not be re-targeted (but deleted, or is Invalid enough?) then the bug reporter could be "the first person to observe and report the symptoms in a specific piece of software". To me that seems like a useful piece of information.

But preventing change to the target is a different can of worms again.