Cloning bugs for each release considered harmful

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Robert Arendt wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> You can also clone the bug and have one for each version.
>>
>> Well, maybe some maintainers like that, but my standpoint is: please 
>> don't!
>>
>> We generally know what releases are affected by a given bug, we'll 
>> just push
>> the fix everywhere once we have one. Having multiple bugs for the same
>> issue is annoying. So for stuff I (co)maintain, don't be surprised if I
>> close your cloned bug as a duplicate and complain about the unnecessary
>> cloning.
>>
> After some searching on "clone a bug", there's little that explains
> about what it does wrt the original bug.  Does it somehow back-reference
> the original bug (maybe the "Depends" field on the F10 bug points to the
> rawhide bug?)
>
> It also turned up:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra/ImprovingBugzillaF9
> where:
>   FUDCon Discussion Ideas and Questions
>        ... snip ...
>     #  What if a bug exists against two different supported Fedora 
> versions?
>     # Open two bugs (clone)?
>     # Other?
>
> Does anyone know if there was any follow-up discussion on this topic?
> I like to avoid gratuitous creativity and follow best practices.
> (Thanks for the comments so far).
>
I threw that question to the devel-list 
(  
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg01325.html 
)

The outcome of that thread will be acted upon on next QA meeting..

JBG