<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM Harald Sitter <<a href="mailto:sitter@kde.org">sitter@kde.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hey!<br>
<br>
I currently have an MR open to disable crash reporting to KDE by<br>
default and would like your input on the matter.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/drkonqi/-/merge_requests/364" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/drkonqi/-/merge_requests/364</a><br>
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Essentially we have a problem with users sitting on outdated software<br>
versions, reporting crashes, and then getting their crash closed<br>
because their version is no longer getting releases from us. So the<br>
idea is we have a simple knob to turn on/off reporting to KDE at<br>
compile time and leave it to distributions to toggle this as<br>
necessary.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wouldn't the better idea be to have a "support end date" compiled into the software, which defaults to the KDE value, and which is disabled if a distro bug report URL is specified?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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When this is disabled, instead of getting the regular drkonqi UX flow,<br>
the user will get a less integrated flow where they get a notification<br>
about the crash that takes them to coredump-gui and then from there<br>
they can click a button to go to the bug report url you have defined<br>
in os-release.<br>
<br>
How the knob is used is mostly up to you. You could have it enabled<br>
while you ship supported versions but disable it when their support<br>
ends. Or just leave it disabled and route all crash reporting through<br>
your bug tracker first, upstreaming as necessary.<br>
<br>
Obviously if you release supported versions regularly through rolling<br>
updates or backports you can always enable reporting to KDE.<br>
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There is also the matter of default-off or on. Any preferences?<br>
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HS<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ben</div></div></div>