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

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > 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).
> > >
> > > Why is the original version better for this purpose than a later
> > > version that was tested and known to be affected by the bug?
> >
> > It's always better to test using exact version that the user had in order
> > to avoid any side effects of patches applied after that point, possible
> > another regression, something else that may happen after that (like
> > introducing new compiler optimization in default flags, changed config.h
> > dependency, added/removed MS_HOOK/WINAPI/CDECL thing, etc.,etc.)
> >
> > Testing using a later Wine version may reproduce something that looks
> > like an original bug but be not the same thing in reality.
> >
> > --
> > Dmitry
> >
> 
> I think the number of cases where this would matter is trivial (compared to
> the overall problem of what the version field means/keeping that value
> meaningful).

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.

-- 
Dmitry.