Today, among the 100 version strings the users need to scroll through
in BZ, we have "AOO340-dev".
What do we want after we release AOO 3.4?
Add AOO340? (Or just rename AOO340-dev to AOO340?)
Add AOO341-dev?
Add AOO450-dev?
The versions are for reporting issues against, so bugs reported from end
users will usually be against officially released versions such as AOO340.
With only one issue reported against AOO340-dev and that one bug still
being a problem in AOO340 just renaming the old version AOO340-dev to
AOO340 should fine. I took the liberty to do just that.
Having bugs filed against official releases makes reproducing a problem
easier because the binaries are easily available and widely used.
I suggest that versions such as AOO350-dev should only be used to report
problems that don't happen on released versions, e.g. if it is a
regression or if it involves a new feature. This also means that we
shouldn't add versions such as AOO341-dev to bugzilla as micro releases
are only to fix problems in the released product and they are by
definition reproducible in the released version.
I sincerely hope that we can update to bugzilla >=4.2 soon which has the
major new feature that obsolete versions can be marked as such.
Also, are there any "products" that can be removed or demoted to
"components" under another product? What we have now is simpler than
what we had with OOo, but it is still very complicated with a lot of
"dead wood" at the top level.
I like Regina's suggestions.
Herbert
