Closing old Plasma 4 bugs

[Christoph Feck]

On 10.02.2018 21:24, Nate Graham wrote:
> 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?
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> 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?
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> Nate
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> For bugs:
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> Hello!
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> 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
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> 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
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> Thanks for your understanding!
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> Nate Graham
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> For wishlist items:
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> Hello!
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> 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
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> 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
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> Thanks for your understanding!
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> Nate Graham
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Hi Nate,

had that on my TODO list, but happy to see you taking over for this task.

I suggest to wait until Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is released, ideally a month 
longer to give people with LTS requirements time to update it.

Christoph