Absolute values as opposed to references

[Myk Melez]

Jordi Bunster wrote:

>
> Is there any reason in particular why certain things are static, such 
> as the Operating system in a bug?

No reason, that's just the way it was done long ago, and we haven't had 
a need to change it yet (like we did with products and components).

> Also, is there any particular policy that dictates that a bug 
> description should not be changed, as opposed to just adding comments?

No policy, just practice.  There's a bug on changing it which has been 
open for a while and received a lot of debate, but no one has taken it 
and driven a fix (or marked it WONTFIX), so it's still an open question.

-myk