I think this is a fuller explanation and the other one should close.

On the other proposal, the Lindens say, "Go vote for this on the Atlassian Jira, it depends on them adding this to their software."

But that requires joining Atlassian's JIRA, registering, etc. Why should we have to do that? Votes on this matter should be accepted here. So I am changing to "contact support" to urge the Lindens to put this back and let people vote on it, end of story, I fail to see the need for "resolving" it and shoving us off to Atlassian.

JIRA issue posting guidelines - Status of your Issue

Resolved
This is an implicit assignment back to the reporter of the issue. It is not closed yet, but rather in a state of limbo that depends on the resolution. It's up to the Reporter to decide whether to reopen an issue, or close it.

Is the Reopen option, left sidebar, available to you ? If it isn't, would you like me to Reopen this issue ?

Ella, Re-open didn't seem to work, that's why I put "call staff". Did you yourself reopen it?

Duh, Harleen. But that's not what the problem is. The problem is that now that close doesn't close off the author, as some would like it to do, RESOLVED closes the vote, and is used then to stop voting.

Voting must continue; there's no reason not to have it continue. But the Lindens said on the other JIRA that this is an Atlassian issue (i.e. the makers of JIRA itself) and we need to go vote on them to change this feature.

I don't like being driven to Atlassian, outside of SL, where there is a lack of understanding of what this JIRA is actually needed for here in a world, as distinct from just some flat computer program. And the same mentality can prevail there.

Therefore, I don't want this issue "resolved" because then there is no way to see if votes would collect on it or not. Resolving does shut off votes, and "discussion" is not sufficient substitute for removal of voting powers.

Once someone assaults your JIRA proposal with RESOLVED you cannot take any action to reverse its status to NOT RESOLVED in any way.

Why not as Gigs said you just reopen it and voting continues.

The problem is that while you are in the RESOLVED mode looking at all the resolved choices, there isn't an option that says "remove RESOLVED" or "unresolve," so to speak.

You have to "just know" that first you have to reopen it, and then the resolved will "magically disappear". I'm glad that can happen. However, I see that this is confusing, the interface isn't intuitive for the normal person as I've just illustrated, and votes should still be left going even if something is toggled to resolved status.