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

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> 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.
>
> In reality Wine version should be set to the one that user had used
> at the time it experianced the problem he/she were reporting. That's
> neither earliest nor the latest one, it's the one used at the bug
> reporting time.
>
> --
> Dmitry.
>
>

What is the reasoning behind that, really? What is the point of having
a version field that tells the developers absolutely nothing?
As it stands the version field is only useful for a split second at
report time to tell users "The version you're using is too old". This
could be automated with a bit of javascript and prevent unnecessary
reports.

J. Leclanche