RFC: Bugzilla keyword definitions

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

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?

Use case is the same as with any application: if the breakage is caused
by a change in Wine source, i.e. a regression test could be performed, and
the Regression SHA1 field could be set as a result.

-- 
Dmitry.