Old versions of our software in Bugzilla

[Jonathan Riddell]

http://embra.edinburghlinux.co.uk/~jr/tmp/Screenshot_2022-09-06_at_23-26-42_Select_version_of_product__plasma-nm_.png


On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 23:34, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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