Remove/ Archive Obsolete or Disabled Bugzilla Product/Components

[Shubham Arora]

Hi Ben,

Nate suggested on matrix that we can move inactive components to a "Archived" project. This way they will not be visible under original project. Also is it possible to move the inactive projects further down the list. 

Regards,
Shubham

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On Monday, December 18th, 2023 at 12:12 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:


> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 7:21 PM Shubham Arora <shubhamarora at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > Thanks for the response. I will move the conversation to plasma-devel for disabling the components.
> > 
> > Can we archive the already disabled components? For example kinfocenter product has only 1 active component and around 8 inactive. These components are extraneous and just add to the clutter when browsing.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately Bugzilla has no such "archival" functionality - so the extent that things are disabled is as good as it gets i'm afraid.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
> > 
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> > 
> > On Monday, December 18th, 2023 at 10:51 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:16 AM Shubham Arora <shubhamarora at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > HI Shubham,
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have compiled a list of all bugzilla components and products that need to be archived or removed to remove some clutter from the bugzilla interface.
> > > >
> > > > All inactive components can be archived as they are no longer in use. Following components can probably be disabled and archived.
> > > >
> > > > Product ID Product Name Product Description Component ID Component Name Component Description
> > > > 189 ksysguard System monitoring tool [up to Plasma 5.21] 341 general all bugs not for other components
> > > > 189 ksysguard System monitoring tool [up to Plasma 5.21] 1131 ksysguard The ksysguard standalone windowed application
> > > > 189 ksysguard System monitoring tool [up to Plasma 5.21] 1130 ksysguardd The cli daemon process
> > > > 189 ksysguard System monitoring tool [up to Plasma 5.21] 2438 libksysguard ksysguard library
> > > > 189 ksysguard System monitoring tool [up to Plasma 5.21] 1129 Plasmoid / Applet The applet -- not the windowed ksysguard.
> > > > 189 ksysguard System monitoring tool [up to Plasma 5.21] 1132 Process Controller - krunner part The process controller widget
> > > > 359 buildsystem Report issues with the buildsystem here. 981 KDE4 (cmake) Report issues with the KDE4 buildsystem (cmake). For reporting issues with cmake itself use the cmake bugtracker: http://www.cmake.org/Bug
> > > > 392 Oxygen A breath of fresh air. It includes a new icon set, sounds, a new widget style and a new window decoration. The oxygen artists also provide various artwork for applications (like backgrounds etc) 1795 gtk2-engine The GTK+-2.0 implementation of the widget style
> > > > 344 systemsettings Plasma's configuration tool 2414 kcm_formats The formats module in Plasma 5.25 and earlier. Do not file bugs here if you are using Plasma 5.26 or later!
> > > > 643 QtCurve The QtCurve style engine for Qt and other GUI toolkits. 2425 gtk2 Bugs specific to the GTK+ 2 version.
> > > > 643 QtCurve The QtCurve style engine for Qt and other GUI toolkits. 2427 qt4 Bugs specific to the Qt 4 version.
> > > >
> > > > I used this script to generate the list. https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2943
> > > >
> > > > Sysadmin intervention is required here as not to generate any emails for any existing bugs under the above components/products.
> > >
> > >
> > > Components and products can be disabled/archived for new bug entry without affecting existing bugs.
> > > This therefore just needs someone with sufficient access (edit_components rights) to do - should disabling the above be seen as appropriate by the component maintainers.
> > >
> > > Given many of these are Plasma related, probably best to discuss this on plasma-devel at kde.org.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > >
> > > > Shubham
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ben
> > >
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