On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote:
> Members of our QA team requested a clarification of the "Version" field used
> in our bugzilla instance. There are other terms that could need some
> clarification too.
>
> So before I request ASF-Infra to change our bugzilla installation by using
> the patch [1], I'd like to ask for lazy consensus to request this change in
> our bugzilla installation.
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/attachment.cgi?id=82837&action=diff
>
> In particular the help text for "version" should be changed from
>   "The version field defines the version of the software the bug was found
> in."
> to
>   "The oldest version of the software the bug can be found in.",
>
> Also the help text for "assigned to" should be changed from
>   "The person in charge of resolving the ${terms.bug}."
> to
>   "The person in charge of progressing the ${terms.bug}."
> because we sometimes need more info, specific testing, etc. from others.
>

This might be confusing, because we have a separate field for "QA
Contact".  We've been using that field for the person who is testing
the feature.

Maybe, to be clear, "assigned to" could say something like "The
*developer* in charge of progressing..."

> The help text for "operating system" should be changed from
>   "The operating system the $terms.bug was observed on."
> to
>   "The operating systems the $terms.bug can be observed on."
> because AOO problems are often impacting multiple platforms.
>
> Since many entries in our bugzilla database are not about bugs, but about
> new features or enhancements I'd also like to use the term "issue" instead
> of "bug", when Bugzilla refers to such an entry.
>
> Herbert
>
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