User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; fr; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 Build Identifier: Add a field to put a URL in it, pointing to some external page or website that host a discussion thread about the bug, to notice the user before sending a new comment. Reproducible: Always

A Section with a custom URL field "Discussion link :" could be added in bug page to easilly notice the user that someone proposed to develop the discussion outside of bugzilla (as for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574688#c129). It could be between "Additional Comments:" and the new-comment-form (aka: the bottom of the page) to keep aware people that are going to discuss the bug that someone else decided to link the discussion outside of bugzilla (newsgroup, forum,...). It could works like the "Blocks" or "See Also" (with the remove check box, for this one) component of a bug page. If needed the theming could warn the user : the "Discussion link :" could be in a red box. With that feature, the discussion is not always outside of Bugzilla but is easilly noticeable to users before sending an answer. In the way it is done now (in-comment), it's hard to : - know if there is a thread for external discussion - if there is one, to know where it is in the comments (it could be totaly surrounded) - to find and follow all developpments of the bug (answering in the bug without knowing bout the external discussion)

(In reply to comment #1) > (as for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574688#c129). this situation make a discussion lagging or blocking : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574688#c137 (sorry to send it in two parts)

Hi Nicolas, Thanks for your suggestion, but I'm not sure it's worth adding an extra field for this. Only a very small number of bugs are controversial enough to need it. And for those bugs, it's unlikely people will follow the link! Gerv