Closing old Plasma 4 bugs

[Olivier Churlaud]

Hello,

Just to remind you that companies using KDE/Plasma on RHEL7 are still using plasma 4. 
I don't know if it has an impact but in case I wanted to point it out.

Cheers,
Olivier

Le samedi 26 mai 2018, 05:09:06 CEST Nate Graham a écrit :
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> > 
> > 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.
> 
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