Bug targets

[John Ralls]

On Sep 2, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Monday 02 September 2013 19:48:48 Christian Stimming wrote:
>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> schrieb:
>>> BZ has an enormous number of old target versions which makes for very
>>> long lists when picking. I just modified all of the already-released
>>> versions to sort to the bottom, but would anything bad happen if I
>>> just deleted all previous releases? None of them are in use.
>> 
>> In use by currently open bugs, you mean? Unfortunately bugzilla won't
>> allow to delete old versions if there are closed bugs on them. I
>> think that's why this list grows larger and larger...

Actually, it says there are bugs entered for the milestone and that deleting it will retarget them to ---. I think that's fine; I can't see any reason to look at old roadmaps.

>>> Similarly I'd like to clean out the "version" list as well to include
>>> only those versions which have bugs on them (which includes every
>>> release from 2.2.0 on. I propose to consolidate all of the 2.0 and
>>> 2.3 releases into 2.0.x and 2.3.x respectively.
>>> 
>>> Any objections or concerns?
>> 
>> All consolidation that is possible technically is fine with me.
> 
> +1

I see that 1.9 also needs compressing. I'll start in on that soon.

Regards,
John Ralls