1749259 - Comments on bug reports cannot be edited or deleted by submitter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1666041

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Williams]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

Steps to reproduce:

Submitted a comment to a bug containing text that wasn't quite ready.

Actual results:

Wanted to edit the text but couldn't.

Expected results:

Should have had 5 minutes from submitting the comment to be able to edit or delete it before it locks. That way nobody else needs troubling with tweaking & comment list can be kept clean.

[Whatever version of bugzilla mozilla is currently using]

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Not sure if this is behind some permission, but I can see a "pen" button on my comments that let me edit them (added in Bug 540).
I don't think comments can be removed, but they can be hidden by adding specific tags to them (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/comment_tagging)

Comment 2

[Steve Williams]

Hi Nicolas - I don't see that pen button - perhaps its an admin only feature ?

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This probably is a duplicate, but that's the wrong bug to dupe to since that's a bmo-specific bug and this bug report is about upstream Bugzilla.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

bug 540 is probably the proper upstream bug to dupe to, but checking a couple things before marking it.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, yep. Bug 540 is it. This feature is present in the upcoming Bugzilla 6, we just need to get it freaking released.
https://github.com/bugzilla/harmony/blob/main/RELEASE_BLOCKERS.md

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Actually, re-reading the original description, I take that back. This was about BMO specifically, and they do already have this feature, just have it administratively disabled for most users, which is a policy decision on their end. The original duplicate was correct, and this bug is in the wrong product.