Allow to post comments which are not information requests or answers

That's indeed possible, we just have to show that button (it currently only appears when the question is in a final state: Rejected or Solved)

Perhaps this could be considered to have more than "Low" importance? If one person wants to add notes to a question and then hand it off to someone else for final resolution, there's no way to do it right now which doesn't move the question out of "Open" status, which means the second person is very likely to overlook it. e.g. my own question https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/72929 being handed to the LOSAs by Curtis.

Hi Paul.

This is a CHR and answer contact issue that I wanted to fix but have not had time.

I changed the
    @action(_('Add Comment'), name='comment', condition=canAddComment)
    def comment_action(self, action, data):

rule to always show when the user is login. The workflow tests did not break and this surprised me. You might be able to fix this bug with the addition of a test to verify that the button appears for all question states so long as the user is not logged in.

=== modified file 'lib/lp/answers/browser/question.py'
--- lib/lp/answers/browser/question.py 2009-07-17 00:26:05 +0000
+++ lib/lp/answers/browser/question.py 2009-08-19 16:33:26 +0000
@@ -641,9 +641,7 @@
         Comments (message without a status change) can be added when the
         question is solved or invalid
         """
- return (self.user is not None and
- self.context.status in [
- QuestionStatus.SOLVED, QuestionStatus.INVALID])
+ return (self.user is not None)

This drives me nuts every time I do CHR. It is very disruptive to the other party when they receive a message saying that their question is answered when it isn't, or gets a request for information when none is needed.

All hail Gavin.