On 23 October 2010 12:05, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 23/10/2010 11:40, Sylvain Laurent wrote: >> so, we lose the information of what bug was fixed in which version for >> tomcat 7 ? (apart from the comments) > > Yes, but that was always the case with Bugzilla. You get the version it > was reported against, not the version it was fixed in. > >> For instance for https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49625 it >> is now marked for tomcat 6. And only the comments can tell us that it was >> fixed in 7.0.3 ?? > > The primary source of that information is the changelog, not Bugzilla. > Many years ago we used to just add a comment that it was fixed in a > particular major version without the exact version in which it was > fixed. We started adding the fixed version in response to a user's > request. Personally, I don't use it that often - I use the changelog. > > JIRA can track this information (it can also generate changelogs) but I > don't think it is anything the committers have felt they needed. At > least I haven't. > > I'm not against switching to JIRA, but neither am I particularly for it > either. I actually have a slight preference for Bugzilla since I prefer > simple tools that provide the info I need rather than ones that have > lots of bells and whistles that I don't need. > > The Bugzilla search interface is probably its weakest component. We are > due an upgrade to 3.6.x which includes the results of a usability study > which may improve this - I haven't checked yet.
IMO search is one of the weakest areas of JIRA. [The other weak area is attachment handling - Bugzilla handles them much better.] However, in this case, JIRA search might not be needed as one can look for "Fix version" directly. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
