[Kde-pim] Re: Kmail' ideas for the GSoC 2011 (sysadmin work?)

[Christophe Giboudeaux]

Hi,

On Friday 11 February 2011 16:12:44 Christophe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday 11 February 2011 10:38:44 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> > There is actually a "KMail2" product. In retrospect, it would have been
> > better to add that as a version to the "KMail"product instead, since
> > having two products is apparently to confusing for reports.
> > Maybe sysadmin can move all reports from KMail2 to KMail with version
> > "2.0.89"?
> 
> As a triager, I don't really like this idea for several reasons:
> - drkonqi uses the appname defined in the kaboutdata when the user reports a
> crash. If the KMail2 bugs are mixed with the kmail1 ones, the current beta
> users won't be able to report crashes until the next version.
> - That would mix the kmail2 with the pre-akonadi ones (we still have a few
> hundreds KDE3 bugs around) which makes them harder to triage.
> - Even if a crash happen with the same testcase, a KMail2 backtrace has a
> very high risk to have nothing common with a KMail1 one.
> 
> What I suggest:
> - Define a date where we stop accepting the KMail1 reports then set the
> product ReadOnly on BKO. (yes, that will make some users angry but at some
> point we have to clearly state that kdepim 4.4.10 was the last KMail1
> version)
> 
> - reassign the KMail1 normal bugs to the appropriate product if relevant
> (Akonadi, KMail2, kdepim...)
> 
> I also suggest testing the KMail1 crashers and open new reports if
> reproducible then close the KMail1 crash reports. (sysadmin help is welcome
> to avoid killing ktown).

As there have been no objection, I'll start working on this topic,
- a blog entry on planet KDE(-PIM)
- Close the KMail product (no new submissions accepted)

The first phase will concern the KMail1 crash reports.


Christophe

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