drkonqi and outdated software

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
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>> Hey!
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>> I currently have an MR open to disable crash reporting to KDE by
>> default and would like your input on the matter.
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>> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/drkonqi/-/merge_requests/364
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>> Essentially we have a problem with users sitting on outdated software
>> versions, reporting crashes, and then getting their crash closed
>> because their version is no longer getting releases from us. So the
>> idea is we have a simple knob to turn on/off reporting to KDE at
>> compile time and leave it to distributions to toggle this as
>> necessary.
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> 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?

Depends how one would implement that. Which date would that be? Plasma?