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

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 7/26/05, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 debian org> wrote:
> Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 11:10 -0600, Elijah Newren a écrit :
> 
> > It means cvs as of the time that the reporter filed it (or, okay,
> > could mean cvs as of when someone updated it when they changed the
> > version as I've done a few times).  Right?
> 
> What is the interest of this granularity? At the moment I use nautilus
> 2.11.90, I'll open a bug a bug as 2.11.x, somebody using 2.11.0 will use
> the same version. You don't have a difference between these 2 versions,
> but you want to differenciate 2.9.90 from the cvs? Usually people also
> use the comment to specify is they use a jhbuild, a distro, what
> version, ... 
> 
> > Isn't this the same problem with reporters marking bugs with 2.6.x and
> > not updating it later to say that "this still happens with 2.7.x",
> > "still happens with 2.8.x", etc.?
> 
> No. Sometime I decide to search for nautilus 2.6.x bugs to update these
> bugs by example. By doing this you know than 2.6.x bugs need an update
> (either be closed or update to 2.11.x) ... what information do you have
> by doing a query on "cvs"? You will get GNOME 1 bugs as well as GNOME
> 2.11 bugs.

All makes sense to me (though note that not every has been enlightened
enough to use things like 2.11.x and instead have 2.11.0, 2.11.1,
2.11.2, etc. appearing in their version list).  We have basically let
maintainers specify all the versions before, though (as you can
probably tell be the huge list of
not-quite-the-same-name-across-modules versions that we have), so we'd
have to first ping them if it'd be okay to nuke variations of "cvs". 
Then we'd need a bunch of people to set all the versions correctly. 
Then we could go through and start deleting all the versions.  We'd
also have to update any documentation that recommends using CVS as a
version number (e.g.
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/bugsquad/maintainers.html).  If
Luis/Olav/Andrew don't object and you want to get the okays for this
and find the necessary volunteers, I don't have any objections.

Hope that helps,
Elijah