1204360 - Make commenting restrictable

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Pollak]

Sometimes (see bug 22687, bug 546932) bugs attract a lot of advocacy comments. In those cases, it could make sense to restrict commenting to people of a certain group, e.g. to the ones with 'editbugs' permission.

github.com does this, see e.g. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1705: "This conversation has been locked and limited to collaborators."

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

I agree this would be a great feature. For those that cannot comment I think it would be good to be able to offer an alternative and a description on a *per-product* basis. For example, addon bugs might want to link to discourse, Thunderbird bugs might want to link to the newsgroups, etc.

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

bugzilla.mozilla.org already has this feature.  i've enabled comment restrictions on the two mentioned bugs.
as upstream bugzilla doesn't have this i'm leaving this bug open.

(In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] from comment #1)
> I agree this would be a great feature. For those that cannot comment I think
> it would be good to be able to offer an alternative and a description on a
> *per-product* basis. For example, addon bugs might want to link to
> discourse, Thunderbird bugs might want to link to the newsgroups, etc.

i don't agree with that - the bug itself should simply contain a comment direction people to the right forum.

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

(In reply to Byron Jones ‹:glob› from comment #2)
> bugzilla.mozilla.org already has this feature.  i've enabled comment
> restrictions on the two mentioned bugs.
> as upstream bugzilla doesn't have this i'm leaving this bug open.
Ah nice, thanks for the info. Does this always require an admin to do so, or can you make it so that thunderbird-drivers can enable that for any Thunderbird bug (and the same for calendar-drivers for Calendar)?

> (In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] from comment #1)
> > I agree this would be a great feature. For those that cannot comment I think
> > it would be good to be able to offer an alternative and a description on a
> > *per-product* basis. For example, addon bugs might want to link to
> > discourse, Thunderbird bugs might want to link to the newsgroups, etc.
> 
> i don't agree with that - the bug itself should simply contain a comment
> direction people to the right forum.
You are right, the person restricting it can just make a comment, that is much easier and more effective than what I proposed. I was just thinking it would be troublesome for people if restrict comments is enabled without an explanation and no alternatives to complain about it :)

Comment 4

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] from comment #3)
> Ah nice, thanks for the info. Does this always require an admin to do so, or
> can you make it so that thunderbird-drivers can enable that for any
> Thunderbird bug (and the same for calendar-drivers for Calendar)?

please file a bug in the bugzilla.mozilla.org::administration component with that request :)

Comment 5

[Albert Ting]

It would be great if this was done on a per-product basis.  For example, restrict comments to those with editbug (or custom editbug) privs to ProductA, which could be a different set of users compared to ProductB