https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123063
--- Comment #5 from Rainer Bielefeld <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Rob Weir from comment #3) Hi Rob, That's a complete misunderstandig of the function of the version related fields. Following your arguments we could simply drop them. But these fields have an important function to find relations between bugs and code commits, especially for handling of regressions. Some Examples: Version ------- If I have 2 similar looking bugs (may be Calc-Conditional-formatting does not work in a particular way), tests show that - problem 1 of Bug Report 1 with sampledocument1 starts with 3.3.0 - problem 2 of Bug Report 2 with sampledocument2 starts with 3.4.1 So this difference indicates that although the observed effects are the same, the bugs seem to have different roots In regressions developer should try to find out what code commit caused the problem, and why it has been introduced. Without that knowledge his changes to solve the current problem might cause a new (old) problem. Target Milestone ---------------- If it's not only used as a goal, but also to indicate for what Version a bug really has become fixed, the function is similar to Version: If there are bug reports concerning similar looking effects, but one is no longer reproducible with 3.4.1 (=TM), a second one no longer with 4.0.0 (but still), and I Latest Confirmation on ----------------------- If I do a Bug Report cleanup, again for the Calc-Conditional-formatting, I try to find DUPs to the bug I have handled few minutes ago. If I found out that the Bug has been fixed for 3.4.1, I can exclude Bugs with "latest confirmed for 4.0), those ones can not be DUPs of a bug fixed for 3.4.1. And so on. These are some of the query tricks what can be used to work more efficient with Bugzilla. We should not configure the tools for the lusers, but for the experts. Although, of course, I see the problem with wrong handling selectors. But that problem should be used by adjusting permissions, not by limiting contents of selectors to useless remainders -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
