No interest in bug reports of older versions of KDEPIM/Akonadi that are not older than a year anymore?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Martin Steigerwald - 28.04.19, 14:45:
> Hi Christophe, hi PIMsters,
> 
> Christophe, you just closed two bug reports regarding KDEPIM/Akonadi
> 18.08 as RESOLVED / UNMAINTAINED.
> 
> Bug 406958 - Unreferenced files in file_db_data
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406958#c3
> 
> Bug 386173 - akonadictl stop does not shut down database
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386173#c4
> 
> In one of the cases – stopping PostgreSQL – you, Daniel, even asked me
> for feedback.

To be fair here: In that thread I did not mention my KDEPIM/Akonadi 
version. I mentioned it in other threads, but not in that one.

> I disagree with that judgment.
> 
> Why?
> 
> It is basically telling Linux distro users, even those who use a
> rolling distro like Debian Unstable during the freeze state to get
> lost regarding reporting bugs for these versions. (I do some Debian
> KDE user support from time to time and know that Sandro would have
> liked to have a newer version in next stable aka Stretch, but that
> packaging QtWebEngine based KDEPIM has been a major challenge.) Or to
> compile KDEPIM themselves, as far as I am aware Discover would not
> over any newer versions via Flatpak, Snapd, or AppImage at the
> moment.
> 
> I understand that there is a line, and still supporting 16.04 in
> Debian Stable aka Stretch might be too much to ask for.
> 
> However, 18.08 is not even a year old.
> 
> I understand when someone asks, please try with a newer version of
> KDEPIM/Akonadi cause it may be fixed by this and this, but often
> enough it happens that a certain functionality like shutting down the
> database has not changed for a year, I'd bet.
> 
> So I just like to bring this up here and ask whether closing bugs for
> not even one year old versions is in line with what you intend.
> 
> Maybe it would be good to make a kind of official decision on this. So
> users know what to expect and refrain from taking the time to
> contribute by researching and reporting bugs for versions that are
> too old for you to consider. Researching and reporting bugs is work
> too.
> 
> Thank you.


-- 
Martin
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