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

[Andrew Eikum]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 04:28:48PM +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the reasoning behind that, really? What is the point of having
> > a version field that tells the developers absolutely nothing?
>
> One need to be a developer to comment on this I'd guess, but telling an
> exact used Wine version in the bug report is already a very good start.

I don't know. As a developer, I've never used that field for anything,
and I find the "user changed version, admin changed it back" dance to
be a distraction in my Bugs mailbox.

I'd be fine if we just eliminated the field entirely.

Andrew