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

[Martin Steigerwald]

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.


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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