Rename "Version" field to "Earliest Affected Version" in Bugzilla?

Ken Thomases ken at codeweavers.com
Sun Feb 9 19:38:58 CST 2014


On Feb 9, 2014, at 7:27 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

> Ken Thomases <ken at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> 
>> I haven't been subscribed to the bug emails for long, but it seems there's an ongoing problem with users updating the Version field to the _newest_ affected version when we want it to indicate the _earliest_ affected version.  Sorry if this is the sort of thing which has been discussed and dismissed before, but it seems the problem could be reduced by renaming the field.
> 
> Now they are going to think that they are supposed to set the version
> to Wine 1.0 or even 0.9, right? :)

Probably.  :)  There's a reason why I said "reduced" and not "eliminated" in the above.  People will always be people.

-Ken




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