Description: ------------ Best explained by example: bug #5257 was suspended last March with status "No Feedback". While I did not submit this bug, I recently encountered it, and produced a test case as requested by dufuz. Instead of opening a new bug, I posted the test case and a proposed patch on the bug; however, I have no way to reopen the bug, as I am not the assignee or reporter. From the bug.php and related source it appears that comments on suspended bugs are still emailed to the assignee, which is nice, but that action isn't as sticky as a bug status change.

Derick removed this restriction from the php.net bug tracker some days ago. IMHO we should do the same for the PEAR bug tracker.

What Derick did allows bug submitters to reopen bogus reports so I'm not sure if I want to venture into the area of allowing none bug submitter to change states, even if they have to be verified but no feedback should go to Open when they have a comment on them, that's true and I'll look into fixing that.