[Cosmo-dev] Bugzilla Trunk version

[Jared Rhine]

I poked around the Mozilla Sunbird's bugzilla yesterday, and saw a
configuration that immediately made total sense to me.  I'd like to propose
it for use in Cosmo's bugzilla.

* Add "Trunk" to the list of "versions"

So instead of reporting most new bugs currently as version "0.5" bugs,
they'd be reported as version "Trunk".

Benefits:
* A bit more specificity on where a bug was found

* Less need to pay attention to exactly what release is out vs upcoming

* Bit easier to quantify sources of bugs.  Count up "Trunk" version bugs
versus a numbered release, and the former will be mostly devs reports vs
user reports for the latter.

Downsides:
* Trunk still doesn't say where you actually found a bug; you still need to
include a specific svn revision number in a bug report to report a bug properly

* You can't really look back over a long history of bug reports and use
"version" as a guide as to when a bug was entered.

* Maybe this approach has already been discussed early at OSAF and rejected.
 Many bugzilla configurations don't use it; it's not necessarily better.

I'm not very vested in moving to this.  Maybe it just looks cool to me
because of the novelty.  But it seemed worth a pointer and proposal.  Thanks.

-- Jared