RFC: Bugzilla keyword definitions

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Tue Jul 6 07:43:59 CDT 2021


On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > * regression
> >   | bugs relating to programs that were working at one time but stoped 
> >   | working for some reason
> > 
> >   Except for the obvious typo, capitalization and missing full stop I'm 
> >   fine with this definition.
> >   I take 'programs' to mean applications that users would actually want 
> >   to use with Wine, not Wine's tests.
> > 
> >   So maybe the definition could be a bit more explicit:
> > 
> >   | Bugs relating to applications (excluding Wine's tests) that were 
> >   | working at one time but stopped working for some reason.
> 
> It should be clarified that the application stopped working due to a change
> in Wine, not something external. For instance if the test case was broken by
> a Windows update that's clearly not a regression.

So unlike me you're arguing there are cases where the regression keyword 
can apply to Wine's test cases?

What's the use case?

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