Christopher Beland wrote:
I see three options:
A Maintain one bug report per bug, across all versions
B Maintain one bug report per bug, across all versions, unless a
reporter is advocating for a backport
C Maintain separate bug reports for each version a bug appears in
I generally do (A) for Fedora bugs, is this common practice for other
triagers and maintainers?
Yes, AFAICT it's the current practice for almost everyone except the
security team which for some reason wants to do its own thing. :-/
Having multiple bugs for the same problem makes it harder to collect
diagnostic information, and seems confusing for maintainers.
Triage-time doesn't seem like a good point to make copies of bugs,
because the fix for all two or three different Fedora versions is likely
to be the same. Probably the time to make new bugs for specific
versions, if any is when a fix is deployed to at least one version.
+1
We already had a discussion on this topic, but unfortunately it came to no
consensus. :-(
Kevin Kofler