Closing old Plasma 4 bugs

[Nate Graham]

Kubuntu 18.04  has now now been out for a month, so if there are no 
further objections, I'll begin preparations for this Plasma 4 mass bug 
close.

Nate



On 02/14/2018 10:16 AM, Christoph Feck wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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
>>
> 
> 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.