bugs.kde.org: a thought

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 09.12.09 20:13:20, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In reading the bug mailing list for kdevelop it seems that users reporting 
> bugs against kdevelop < 4 is very common still. Perhaps we should ask the 
> b.k.o maintainers if they can prevent new bugs from being opened against these 
> versions, and display or link to a page which tells the user that the old 
> versions are no longer maintained, and to encourage switching to 4.0?

The wizard already prevents reports against "KDE versions older than 4.0",
so it might be possible. But of course if I run a KDE4 desktop then I'd
choose 4.3.x there and can go on. And the "application version" field is
optional and empty-by-default.

So I don't see how we can prevent people reporting bugs in KDevelop3 in a
way that works and that relieves us from going to the report and closing it
as unmaintained.

And quite frankly, those are not a real problem. In the last 3 months we
had not even a handful. Much more problematic are those against older
beta's reported "automatically" from dr. konqi.

Andreas

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