drkonqi and outdated software

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 19 de novembre del 2025, a les 10:32:39 (Hora estàndard d’Europa 
central), Harald Sitter va escriure:
> 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 Essentially we have a problem with users sitting on outdated software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?

Needs to be different for each application/component.

Cheers,
  Albert