Bugreporting barrier is too low with the new Dr. Konqi

[Darío Andrés]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, David Nolden <zwabel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Back to the basic problem (too many duplicate bugs):
> Wouldn't it be ideal if the developers could just entirely disable bug-
> reporting for specific versions of the software? For example in KDevelop, we
> would disable bug-reporting for KDevelop4 beta <= 5 now, and the user should
> just get a message like "To report crashes to the developers, please install a
> more recent version of KDevelop.".
>

Hi David: Indeed the idea would be useful to "force" the user to test
the last version of an app before reporting a bug; however it would
need DrKonqi to have access to a "database" which will keep the last
(stable and devel) version of every app, with a remote API.
I don't know if such a database exists now (I think it doesnt).

I sent to Matt Rogers a simple PHP script to implement another feature
of the current DrKonqi in the KDE servers, may be we could use a
similar method. (simple script that is given a product, it access a
plain-file-database and returns a couple of values)

A little detail about KDevelop versioning: the version string that
kdevelop passes to DrKonqi (well.. the one in KAboutData) is "X.X.X
(using KDevPlatform Z.Z.Z)", so it would need special parsing to
compare to an old (or new) release version string.

Regards
Darío A. (bugs.kde.org / DrKonqi)

> Greetings, David
>