Closing old Plasma 4 bugs

[Martin Flöser]

Am 2018-02-10 21:24, schrieb Nate Graham:
> Hello folks,
> We have more than 2,500 Plasma 4 bugzilla tickets that we don't intend
> to look at or triage. We've already prevented new tickets from being
> filed, but it doesn't do anyone any good to just have the old ones
> sitting there. My sense is that most of the relevant bugs and wishlist
> items are already represented in the plasmashell product, so what do
> you think about doing a mass-close?
> 
> I was thinking of closing them all with one of the following two
> messages (top one for bugs, bottom one for wishlist items). What do
> you think?

+1 on that. If you want to do that, please get in contact with sysadmin 
team before. They might have some requirements regarding mass closing of 
bugreports (at least in the past this resulted in email traffic which 
put us on spammer lists).

Concerning the text:
I would cut the "Developers have not been triaging Plasma 4 bugs since 
that time.", the message that it is EOL is sufficient for what we want 
to tell. Also it opens an attack vector (lazy devs don't look for bugs).

For reference the message I put into KWin for mass closing bugs:

As of git commit 34027455aaa2ee738c45987ca2d8cb7d65491bf0 window tiling 
support has been removed from KWin. This change will go into version 
4.10, the upcoming release 4.9 still provides window tiling support. The 
discussion has been taken on the developer mailing list [1]. A short 
summary of the reasons here:
* it is unmaintained
* it is a mode not used by any of the core KWin team
* original developer said at Akademy 2012 that he is not interested in 
picking up the work again
* tiling has quite some bugs, e.g. multi screen not supported
* is conflicting with other concepts in KWin, e.g. activities

A result of this change is that we will not implement any new features 
or fix bugs related to window tiling.

There is ongoing work to provide window tiling as an external KWin 
script. We encourage everyone to participate in this effort and to make 
it really rock and have it available once 4.10 is going to be released. 
The current state can be found in the git repository [2] in the 
directory kwin/scripts/tiling.

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=133149673110558&w=2
[2] https://github.com/mgottschlag/kwin-tiling/

Cheers
Martin

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> Nate
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> For bugs:
> =========
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> Hello!
> 
> This bug was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support
> status in October 2015. Developers have not been triaging Plasma 4
> bugs since that time. Happily, because KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell
> was been almost completely rewritten for better performance and
> usability, it is likely that this bug has already been resolved in
> Plasma 5. Additionally, bug triaging resources are extremely limited;
> if you would like to get involved in this effort, please see
> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging
> 
> Accordingly, and we hope you understand why we must close this bug. If
> the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or
> later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell"
> product after reading
> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting
> 
> Thanks for your understanding!
> 
> Nate Graham
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> For wishlist items:
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> 
> Hello!
> 
> This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached
> end-of-support status in October 2015. Developers have not been
> triaging Plasma 4 requests since that time. Happily, because KDE
> Plasma 5's desktop shell was been almost completely rewritten, it is
> likely that this feature request has already been implemented in
> Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable. Additionally, bug triaging
> resources are extremely limited; if you would like to get involved in
> this effort, please see
> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging
> 
> Accordingly, and we hope you understand why we must close this feature
> request. If the requested feature is still not implemented in KDE
> Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the
> "plasmashell" product after reading
> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting
> 
> Thanks for your understanding!
> 
> Nate Graham