hunmonk, chx, and I have been hard at work bringing the project_issue module (which powers d.o's issue queue) out of the dark ages. Instead of a bunch of duplicated comment-like functionality for issue followups, followups are now handled via genuine core comments[1]. This solves a bunch of UI and other problems[2], and makes the code easier to maintain. One of the things this will allow is easy deleting of inappropriate issue followups (e.g. spam). However, deleting a followup would totally break our current numbering scheme (the little #1, #2, etc next to each followup). We have a solution for this, but it introduces a race condition when N people reply to the issue at the same time. One obvious solution to the race is to use DB locks, but that's scary from a performance standpoint, especially on d.o. So, anyone who a) cares about the d.o issue queue, b) cares about d.o performance, and/or c) has a lot of DB expertise they could share, please read the following issue and comment there: http://drupal.org/node/180866 Thanks! -Derek (dww) [1] http://drupal.org/node/18920 [2] http://drupal.org/node/13221 for example