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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If this is the wrong forum, please forgive….I’m
taking over an installation and I’m not sure where to go for help.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We have bugs that span releases. That is, they are found in
1.0, fixed in 1.1. Right now they are logged with the version field set to version
in which they are (to be) fixed. How do I generate a list of bugs that exist in
1.0? Some may be marked fixed in 1.1 and some may be marked as open and to be
fixed in 1.1? The only bugs that I can be sure were fixed in 1.0 are those
whose version is still 1.0, but any bugs we decided could wait until 1.1 are
now marked 1.1.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Are we using the version field wrong? If we use the version field
to indicate which version a problem was found in, how do we track the versions
(note plural) that it was fixed in? Should we be creating a separate product
for each major release and entering some bugs twice? Do we not close it until
the bug is fixed in all known versions? What if we decide a fix is too risky
for an older version or we obsolete a version? </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>What I think is needed is a table of versions associated
with each bug. This could show all of the builds that were ever tested for this
problem and the results, something like</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.0.21<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>broken</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.0.22<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ok</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.1.12<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>broken</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.1.37<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ok</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.2.1<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ok</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To indicate that the bug existed in and was fixed in both 1.0
and 1.1 but never existed in 1.2. (I will leave it as an exercise to the SQL
gurus to come up with a query that can find bugs that are open in a particular
release or in any release </span></font><font size=2 face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> ) Is this a total
waste of an idea? If not, does anyone have any inkling as to the potential
effort to implement? I do need to fix this problem, so I could potentially
invest some time in bugzilla. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ADV thanks ANCE</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>JLM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jeremy Mordkoff</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tatara Systems</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>978-206-0808 (direct)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>978-206-0888 (fax)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere -- Dr. Martin Luther
King</span></font></p>
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