Closing old Plasma 4 bugs

[Nicolás Alvarez]

The only thing we have is a way to do mass-edits without sending any
email. That doesn't seem suitable for mass-closing; it's more for
things like reassigning lots of bugs to another product. For closing I
assume you do want to send email to the reporters.

Maybe we can do some script to close the bugs spread over a longer
period of time. I'll look into it.

Meanwhile... maybe you can do some loud blog posts calling for triagers? :)

-- 
Nicolás

2018-02-10 17:48 GMT-03:00 Nate Graham <pointedstick at zoho.com>:
> + sysadmin at kde.org
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> 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
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>
> 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
>>
>>>
>>> Nate
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For bugs:
>>> =========
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
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