attributes private, package, etc appear to be ignored

[Walter Bright]

Frank Benoit wrote:
> I don't see a problem here.
> 
> If someone marks a bug as duplicate, the bug do not silently disappear.
> Everybody can reopen the bug status at any time. And if there is really
> a argue about it, there is also the possibility of an poll in bugzilla.
> 
> This is like a wiki. It lives from the community contributing to it. Any
> restriction is worse than it help. Animate the people to contribute,
> don't put restrictions on the system. Failures happens, only if no one
> is contributing any more, then no errors will happen. :)

There is a problem, but as you say, the solution is much worse than the 
problem. I think we're better off with an open community bugzilla. I 
think we can all live with honest mistakes here and there. I certainly 
make my share of them.

So far, bugzilla hasn't been attacked with vandalism or spam. So far, so 
good <g>.