James Hawkins wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Vitaliy Margolen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jeremy White wrote: >>> Second, we'd like new bug reporters to not be able to use >>> the 'CVS/GIT' version choice, but to instead be encouraged to >>> report the current version. (wine --version reports something >>> that is easy to match up to the choices). >> I'm strongly against this. There are number of bug reporters who use git and >> update it every day. What should they use for their bug reports? IMHO their >> reports are much more valuable and allows developers to catch bugs early on >> before they get into the release. >> > > The version field should be 'the earliest known version in which the > bug exists.' If they're keeping up with git, the fact that the bug is > still open and not resolved means the bug still exists in git. The > use of the version field is not necessary for this functionality.
The thing is, that version does not exist yet. And the prior version doesn't have said bug. Vitaliy
