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

[Austin English]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:

> Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Probably, but it saves quite a bit of time and hair for a tester and
> > > avoids inspecting the whole bug history and all the comments to find
> out
> > > an exact version that an original reporter had used. There are bug
> reports
> > > where somebody comes and says "The bug is back!", so in order to test
> whether
> > > this is a regression or the bug was never fixed one needs to test using
> > > an original Wine version.
> >
> > In a situation like that you should be inspecting the comments anyway.
> > The only difference if we change the version field is that you have to
> > open the bug history, search for Version, and read the first entry to
> > find out what the original reported version was (if that first entry
> > is wrong, there will be a comment explaining what it actually is and
> > why).
>
> For instance the Regression SHA1 field was introduced exactly to avoid
> searching through all the comments and filtering the wrong ones.
>
> > And inspecting the comments will be faster because they won't be
> > cluttered with "still present in x.y.z".
>
> I wouldn't be so sure about both of these statements :).
>
> --
> Dmitry.
>

A potential other option..two fields:
First known buggy version:
Last tested version:

(not necessarily a fan of it, just brainstorming)
-- 
-Austin
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