Bug reporting for KDE 4

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 10/29/07, Will Stephenson <wstephenson at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday 29 October 2007, Dirk Mueller said:
> > > There is also quite some confusion about where/if/how to report them
> > > Bugzilla?
> >
> > bugs.kde.org is your choice :)
>
> So b.k.o is theoretically the ideal tool but users and developers are
> confused/inhibited from using it (probably because with the exception of one
> or two saintly people we're all in denial about the number of KDE 3 bugs it
> contains).
>
> My hunch is that this is because it's never clear which applications' versions
> correspond to a given prerelease of KDE 4.  Most (IMO) apps have their own
> versioning scheme.  As well as creating confusion, this prevents release-team
> from querying for 'all the bugs in 4.0rc42'.
>
> I propose that all apps in the KDE 4 release cycle drop their custom version
> strings and use $KDE_VERSION instead.  What am I missing that prevents us
> from doing so?

This does sound to me as an incredibly sane idea...

> Will
>