Old versions of our software in Bugzilla

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Tue Sep 6 23:27:38 BST 2022


Which of these versions do you think should be enabled?

https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2333

Jonathan


On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 22:41, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> Greetings folks,
>
> A while back we removed the versions on bugs.kde.org for older,
> unsupported versions of our products, in the hope that this would
> discourage users from filing bugs if they are using those versions.
>
> Unfortunately this does not appear to have worked, and instead people
> file bugs with the version number field just set completely wrong, so
> now it's harder to tell when they've submitted a bug while using an old
> unsupported version.
>
> I would recommend in the short term that we re-add the old versions to
> alleviate this issue.
>
> In the medium term, I would like to extend the bugzilla bot to post a
> comment on bug reports filed against old unsupported versions
> recommending that the reporter instead ask their distro for support.
>
>
> Nate
>
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