[development] death to "x.y.z" version is now inevitable

[Gary Feldman]

Derek Wright wrote:
> to re-iterate -- if you're dealing with an "x.y.z" issue, you should 
> re-assign it to:
> 6.x-dev -- feature request
> 5.x-dev -- bug report/task for 5.x
This seemed suspicious to me, because it makes 6.x-dev redundant with 
the feature request category.  So I took another look at the tracker, 
and realized that you can't limit the search to a specific version or 
set of versions (not even on the advanced search page), though you can 
sort the results by version.  You can limit a search to just feature 
requests.

In any event, the version number for feature requests is sort of 
irrelevant - there's no guarantee that it will make it into 6.  I'd hate 
to think that when 6 is feature-frozen and 7.x-dev opened, the remaining 
feature requests will need to be bumped to the new version.  That would 
be a waste of time.  I'd rather just say that the version number on an 
open feature request is meaningless, so don't sweat it; use the date to 
figure out how long the request has been outstanding.  When the request 
is finally implemented and closed, then the version number becomes 
meaningful and should be the version in which it first appears.

Gary