I've talked before about my thoughts on severity and priority in issue tracking systems.
Things seem to be working well so far in how I've customised Roundup for Leonardo.
One thing that is still missing, however, is the ability for me to do queries like "show me all the bugs in 0.6b1 that have now been fixed". This is helpful for generating release notes. A simple list of "all the bugs that have been fixed in this release" isn't sufficient because it tends to include a lot of bugs that were only introduced during development of that release (e.g. bugs in new features).
So a simple "what build was this bug found in?" field is not what I want (although that's still useful, it doesn't solve the problem at hand). What I want is a field that lists which releases were shipped with the particular bug.
I think for most projects, it doesn't need to be a comprehensive list; really it just needs to be whether the bug existed in the last major release and the last minor release.
The original post was in the category: software_craftsmanship but I'm still in the process of migrating categories over.