Phil, Christian, Thanks for elaborating on this. The link to Bugzilla's browse feature was very nice too.
I have taken the liberty to add this info in the wiki as well (see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/QA/BugzillaAdministration). No doubt I won't be the last one to wonder about this. This will allow us to point future new developers to a wiki. Geert On Wednesday 9 December 2009, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2009 schrieb Phil Longstaff: > > I normally set the 'target milestone' to the version which will contain > > the fix. > > I agree. The "Version" field is being used for the version where the bug > was spotted and reported. The "Target Milestone" shows the version when the > solution will appear publicly. > > If one closes a bug, we shouldn't modify the "Version" field because it > still contains information that we might not have in any of the other > fields, as sometimes the bug might have disappeared in the current version > already (which means we will probably close it as DUPLICATE or OBSOLETE). > > > Recently, all bugs prior to 2.0 were either closed or moved. For actual > > bugs, I like to see the original version. > > Yes, same here. > > > For enhancements, however, is it useful to know what > > version the request was reported against? Personally, I don't think so. > > Yes, usually it is not necessary to know the reporter's version anymore. In > that case it should be set to "SVN" as long as SVN doesn't have this > feature. However, there might be exceptions to this rule, in which case we > should leave the Version field to the reporter's version. > > > I've started using the bugzilla 'browse' > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash > > Yes, this is also my start page into bugzilla. I use it almost daily to at > least quickly review the new bugs (right column, second line from top). > > Regards, > > Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel