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

Bruno Jesus 00cpxxx at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 18:28:01 CST 2014


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's a bad idea IMO. Version field as "version where the bug was
>> found" provides useful information as an "upper bound", i.e. for v_N,
>> the bug appeared in V_i...V_N-1, V_N
>> If you change the meaning of the field, you'd have to examine the bug
>> history to find that info.
>
> When would that information be useful apart from regressions? If it's
> only useful for regressions, aren't we optimizing for an uncommon
> case?

The original version is useful to test the original bug, it may be the
difference between resolving it as FIXED (was able to reproduce and no
longer happens) or WORKSFORME (could not reproduce in the reported
version and nowadays).

Bruno



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