[Bug 44140] New: Use less misleading language

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44140

            Bug ID: 44140
           Summary: Use less misleading language
           Product: WineHQ Bugzilla
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: bugzilla-unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: z.figura12 at gmail.com
                CC: austinenglish at gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

There are several places in our bugzilla that use misleading language. Time and
time again I have seen users complain about a label, or attempt to modify it,
to be patiently reminded that the label doesn't actually mean what it appears
to mean.

Thus:

* The status NEW for confirmed bugs. Almost useless in its intended meaning
since bugs are almost never assigned, and causes complaints when bugs several
years old are marked NEW. CONFIRMED, or possibly OPEN, would be better.

* The version field is supposed to be the first reported version, but this is
not obvious to users, who often change it to a more recent version, whereupon a
bugzilla admin changes it back and informs them of this. This happens far, far
too often. IMO, this field should be renamed to something more specific like
"first reported version" or "earliest known version". I think we could also
benefit from a second field "latest known version", which would then obviate
the repeated "still present in..." comments that bugs often get.

* Severity is often misunderstood by users as being severity with respect to
the applicaton (i.e. a bug causing a program to crash is a "blocker", etc.) I'm
not sure that I can think of a good thing to rename this to, though. If
something comes to mind, it might be worthwhile to have one field represent the
severity as relating to Wine, and one as relating to the application.

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