drkonqi and outdated software

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey!
> >>
> >> I currently have an MR open to disable crash reporting to KDE by
> >> default and would like your input on the matter.
> >>
> >> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/drkonqi/-/merge_requests/364
> >>
> >> Essentially we have a problem with users sitting on outdated software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.
> >
> >
> > 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?
>

Dr Konqi should be able to reference some metadata that defines what the
support lifecycle is for a given individual application.
That could take the form of additional information passed via KCrash, or
some separate files on disk that Dr Konqi can reference.

Thanks,
Ben
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