On 23 May 2016 14:43, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Currently, Bugzilla is configured to require a comment for a transition 
> to RESOLVED.  Previously, this was only enforced for some RESOLVED 
> combinations (such as RESOLVED/FIXED).  But now it seems to be required 
> for all states, including RESOLVED/INVALID.
> 
> Is this really what we want?  I assume closing other people's bugs 
> requires editbugs group membership, and we can probably trust those 
> people to add a comment when necessary.
> 
> What do you think?  Should we get rid of the RESOLVED-needs-comment 
> requirement?

i tend to agree.  if someone wants to misbehave, they can just use "."
to bypass the check (and this has happened in the past).
-mike