"Active" Milestones

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:

    Martin> I don't mind leaving them open for a while after the release.
    Martin> On the other hand I don't really mind whether bugs that were closed in
    Martin> the past have the right target milestone or not - personally if I want
    Martin> to know I look in the NEWS file.  Do you see a substantial benefit in
    Martin> setting the target after the fact?

Yes.

If someone use an old version and encounters the bug, he can come
to lp to report it, be presented with the existing one and know
which version he should use.

Now, you can answer : "He will update to the latest and be ok",
but my intuition is that in the near future people will not have
always the opportunity to update to the latest and telling them
*when* a bug was fixed can help them take the right decision :

- nag their admin to update to version x,

- nag their distro to update to version x,

- install from source :)

  Vincent