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

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMO that field is important for testing bugs in the correct or at
>> least a close wine version in order to reproduce the issue.
>
> But it should be equally useful for this as long as it's a version
> where the bug is present. It doesn't matter whether it was the
> originally reported version. I've not seen any explanation in this
> thread of when any affected version is not good enough, and you really
> need to know the version the reporter was using. I believe there is no
> situation where that is important, and people changing it back are
> just adding noise to the bug for no good reason.
>
> In fact, I would like to propose that we change the field's definition
> to be the LATEST WINE VERSION in which the bug is known to be present.
> This way, people retesting bugs won't have to flood them with comments
> of "still present in version x.y.x", and one can quickly search to
> find e.g. download bugs that weren't tested recently.
>
>

As a bugzilla triager, I am extremely highly in favour of that. It
makes a lot more sense for users, is a lot more easily explained and
won't cause so much meta-drama.
But then again, it's whatever is most useful to the devs that really matters.

J. Leclanche