Old versions of our software in Bugzilla

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 10:49 AM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> 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).
>

As a general rule you can expect that software that we released up to 2
years ago to still be in use based on what i've seen on the servers in
terms of activity we see from KDE software.

Cheers,
Ben


>
> 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
> >      >
> >
>
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