Old versions of our software in Bugzilla

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Tue Sep 6 23:33:51 BST 2022


Bad link? That takes me to a paste that shows "asdf" and a link to a 
screenshot that I can't see.

Nate


On 9/6/22 16:27, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Which of these versions do you think should be enabled?
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2333 
> <https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2333>
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 22:41, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org 
> <mailto:nate at kde.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Greetings folks,
> 
>     A while back we removed the versions on bugs.kde.org
>     <http://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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