Comment 4 for bug 825837

On 12 September 2011 18:07, Rolf Leggewie <email address hidden> wrote:
> Why not require a comment from everyone, regardless of their privs, role
> or karma level?  It's not too much of a burden, I'd say and it greatly
> helps everybody else to understand why the ticket was indeed closed.

A few overlapping things:
 * some people garden a huge number of bugs, sometimes now without any
message - this would be a regression for them. an illustrative case
is that i have just undone some noise edits and doing so would have
been extra annoying if i had to enter placeholder text.
 * this would be reduced if there was a quicker ui to add both text
and a status change at once; at the moment changing just status is
substantially faster; making it easy may make people comment more
 * requiring a comment is a good way to get comments like '.'
 * i don't know if requiring a comment will really make these users think twice

Possibly we can use flags to experiment with it.

Let's not overdesign it before someone's actually ready to work on it.