On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru wrote:
Vincent Povirk madewokherd@gmail.com wrote:
Probably, but it saves quite a bit of time and hair for a tester and avoids inspecting the whole bug history and all the comments to find
out
an exact version that an original reporter had used. There are bug
reports
where somebody comes and says "The bug is back!", so in order to test
whether
this is a regression or the bug was never fixed one needs to test using an original Wine version.
In a situation like that you should be inspecting the comments anyway. The only difference if we change the version field is that you have to open the bug history, search for Version, and read the first entry to find out what the original reported version was (if that first entry is wrong, there will be a comment explaining what it actually is and why).
For instance the Regression SHA1 field was introduced exactly to avoid searching through all the comments and filtering the wrong ones.
And inspecting the comments will be faster because they won't be cluttered with "still present in x.y.z".
I wouldn't be so sure about both of these statements :).
-- Dmitry.
A potential other option..two fields: First known buggy version: Last tested version:
(not necessarily a fan of it, just brainstorming)