[Bug 37875] Wine Bugzilla Interface doesn't inform enough users about logs

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Sat Jan 17 13:04:45 CST 2015


https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37875

--- Comment #12 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #11)
> I don't think the problem with the version field is that users don't know
> what Wine version they're using or how to find out. 
> 
> I think the problem is that it's not clear that that field is for the Wine
> version. If you hover your mouse over "Version," the tooltip that pops up
> says "This version field defines the version of the software the bug was
> found in." Is "the software" supposed to be Wine, or the app they're trying
> to run? What's visible in the box for the Version field when first
> submitting a bug is:
> 
> 20050628
> 20052725
> 20050830
> 20050930
> unspecified
> 
> None of that matches the current versioning scheme for Wine, and it's
> unlikely to match the versioning scheme for their app, so it's hardly
> surprising that many users decide "unspecified" is the safest choice. 

I agree, but there's not currently an option for that. I filed:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122933

upstream. Note that it may be easy to workaround, see:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.support.bugzilla/n5L6fmY4joo

but I haven't tested it.

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