The original poster can mark a reply in the thread as the Solution, which would then mark the topic as Solved (which also adds a satisfying tick in the category list), like this:
I think encouraging reporters to use this would be nicer than adding a new tag. What do you think?
I looked into tag permissions. Unfortunately it’s not possible to grant you tag permissions to other people’s posts without all of the other admin rights as well, which we’re not able to do at the moment. We can create a tag, but you’d have to persuade the original poster (or a moderator/admin) to tag it on your behalf. Would a tag still be worth having?
Both are relevant and yes, marking as solved is a good way if the user keeps his eyes on his bug reports. In some case, bug reports are listed in the release note or a sailor add a comment under the bug report. With a tag, it could be possible to retrieve all fixed post and easily list them in the release note.
So would it work if you and @thigg ping me with a list of bug posts to apply the tags to, and I’ll apply them on your behalf? I can do my best to apply them at least once per working day?
If that means, that it is just a manual task for you, then I wouldn’t like to waste your time for this.
In that case we could think about automating it first somehow (or as much as possible). (Maybe just have a bot doing this or something)
If you also draw some benefit from looking at the bugs, that might be an option.
It would be a manual task, yes, but I do see some benefit to me in doing this. My guess is that after the initial tranche of bug reports have been tagged, the effort will drop down (it looks like we average between 1 or 2 new bug reports per day).