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Re: bugzilla practices
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> We have "Last reconfirmed" in the bugzilla for glibc.
>>
>> Why isn't this field just "Confirmed on?" and a date?
>>
>> Why make the distinction between "Ever" and "Last" or "reconfirmed?"
>
> Because an old bug may get incidentally fixed as a side-effect of another
> change without people realising at the time that the change does fix the
> bug. ?So occasional reconfirming helps detect such cases.
Why do you care to remember when you first confirmed it?
The only thing I ever want to know was "When was this last confirmed?"
In your use case, bug X is fixed, and I notice bug Y is similar but
was last confirmed *before* bug X was fixed so I go to confirm Y and
it doesn't reproduce. After some more work I can probably mark bug Y
fixed by the fix for bug X.
How does that call for anything bug one date field?
Cheers,
Carlos.