[rfc] Should we "block" bugreports for the latest stable releases of KDE apps?

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 25 of April 2008, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> 2008/4/25, Jaroslaw Staniek <js at iidea.pl>:
> > David Faure said the following, On 2008-04-24 19:09:
> > > But maybe we can allow kdelibs-3.5.[678] for non-kdelibs/kdebase bugs,
...
> I think requiring reporters to use latest KDE is deterring them. They
> have already did more than usual user would do (i.e. they want to
> report bug), but they are now punished for that. How many will really
> install newer KDE version just to check the bug?
>
> IMO bugs for older KDE version should be accepted, marked as
> "Untriaged for current version" or something similar, and then someone
> with latest KDE version can verify if this bug still happens.

 That's a nice theory, but unfortunately it's probably just that. We already 
can't keep up with the incoming bugreports. Even if we allowed stuff from 
KDE3.5.5 or older (and that's a year and half old), the first reaction of 
most developers is going to be 'Can you reproduce with the latest version?". 
And the reporter says that they don't know, and the developer shelves the 
bugreport for somewhen when they'll have time to check (=indefinitely). 
Where's the gain in that?

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