Closing old Plasma 4 bugs

[Nate Graham]

+ sysadmin at kde.org

KDE Sysadmins, is there anything special we need to do before doing a 
mass bug close? around 2,500 bugs would be closed in a short period of time.

Martin, good idea. I'll remove that line.

Nate



On 02/10/2018 01:42 PM, Martin Flöser wrote:
> 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:
>> ===================
>>
>> 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