Version field in Bugzilla

[Geert Janssens]

Phil, Christian,

Thanks for elaborating on this. The link to Bugzilla's browse feature was very 
nice too.

 I have taken the liberty to add this info in the wiki as well (see 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/QA/BugzillaAdministration). No doubt I won't be 
the last one to wonder about this. This will allow us to point future new 
developers to a wiki.

Geert

On Wednesday 9 December 2009, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2009 schrieb Phil Longstaff:
> > I normally set the 'target milestone' to the version which will contain
> > the fix.
>
> I agree. The "Version" field is being used for the version where the bug
> was spotted and reported. The "Target Milestone" shows the version when the
> solution will appear publicly.
>
> If one closes a bug, we shouldn't modify the "Version" field because it
> still contains information that we might not have in any of the other
> fields, as sometimes the bug might have disappeared in the current version
> already (which means we will probably close it as DUPLICATE or OBSOLETE).
>
> > Recently, all bugs prior to 2.0 were either closed or moved. For actual
> >  bugs, I like to see the original version.
>
> Yes, same here.
>
> >  For enhancements, however, is it useful to know what
> >  version the request was reported against?  Personally, I don't think so.
>
> Yes, usually it is not necessary to know the reporter's version anymore. In
> that case it should be set to "SVN" as long as SVN doesn't have this
> feature. However, there might be exceptions to this rule, in which case we
> should leave the Version field to the reporter's version.
>
> >   I've started using the bugzilla 'browse'
> >  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash
>
> Yes, this is also my start page into bugzilla. I use it almost daily to at
> least quickly review the new bugs (right column, second line from top).
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian