Old versions of our software in Bugzilla

[Nate Graham]

We still get bug reports from versions as far back as Plasma 5.18, but I 
haewn't seen anything older than that in a long time. So maybe let's 
only cull a version when it's older than the previous LTS version (not 
the current LTS version).

Nate



On 9/6/22 16:36, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> http://embra.edinburghlinux.co.uk/~jr/tmp/Screenshot_2022-09-06_at_23-26-42_Select_version_of_product__plasma-nm_.png 
> <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 
> <mailto: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>
>      > <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>
>      > <mailto: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>
>      >     <http://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
>      >
>