how make a parent category read only not sub projects

[dingfelder]

is there any way to make a parent category read only but leave the sub projects active?

Specifically, I have parent projects for each of our major applications.

Each project then has 3 sub-projects: hardware, software and device firmware.

I want bugs to be entered into the sub projects, not the top level parent project.

It seems that if you "disable" the parent, the sub projects dissipear from the pulldown list of projects, even though they are still enabled, efectivelly disabling them as well.

[Narcissus]

Could you maybe just make the parent project private and then give all users 'reader' permissions on that parent project?