Re: bugzilla: is "Version: cvs" useful? What about Version/GNOME Version?

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:10 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 7/26/05, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 debian org> wrote:
> > Another confusing part is to have "Versions" and "GNOME Version". Is
> > there a place where the information "epiphany 1.6.x" is "GNOME 2.10"
> > could be set rather than exposing that on the standard bug page?
> 
> Maybe, with nasty further customizations of bugzilla and diligent work
> to keep the information updated.  But making GNOME Version was
> (relatively) easy and we wanted to be able to search on it as soon as
> possible and didn't have anyone that wanted to implement anything more
> complicated at the time.

We didn't *think* of it at the time. I was hacking like a lemming
[1] :-)

On the other hand, I agree with Elijah that keeping a version map up to
date would be hassle++.
-- 
Andrew

[1] "The diagonal dig tool"