Discussion of bug versions

[Darragh Bailey]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:53:17PM -0500, Austin English wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Vitaliy Margolen
> <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> > Jeremy White wrote:
> >> We discussed bugzilla versions at Wineconf, re:
> >>
> >> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12728
> >>
> >> There were several points of consensus.  First, it would be helpful
> >> if we could reduce the number of versions visible in the drop down
> >> box when entering a new bug.  That would seem to require
> >> a bugzilla code change, though.  Anyone know of an easy way to
> >> accomplish this?
> > AFAIK it's already done in automated fashion in AppDB. Can take code from there.
> 
> +1 I HATE having to scroll for 15 seconds just to get to the current
> version. The problem is, how can we remove all those old versions
> while not deleting the bugs/flooding wine-bugs mailing list? Can we
> disable global e-mail while renaming them? Can we make a new 'version'
> that is "old", "pre-0.9.50", etc.? And move all those there?

If that is bothering people so much, perhaps a patch to bugzilla to be
able to change the order versions are displayed in would be more 
appropriate than removing old versions.

-- 
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."