> On May 24, 2013, 9:44 p.m., Jekyll Wu wrote:
> > Bugzilla itself (since 4.2.5) already rejects any attempt against disabled 
> > versions. So even without this patch, DrKonqi users won't be able to create 
> > crash report against disabled versions in the end. From developers POV, you 
> > don't need to worry about that.
> > 
> > The problem is usability for users. I'm not sure this reused error dialog 
> > is more informative than the existing one in 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=78600&action=edit. So I'm against 
> > this patch in its current simple form.
> > 
> > As said in [1][2], I'm working on a patch for the usability improvement and 
> > plan to make it into 4.11. I will create a review request today or 
> > tomorrow. 
> > 
> > 
> > [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315073#c3
> > [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318769#c1
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     > Bugzilla itself (since 4.2.5) already rejects any attempt against 
> disabled versions.
>     Bugzilla does blcok, but DrKonqi still reports them as "unknown" version. 
> I know it because I see the crash reports coming in
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     > So I'm against this patch in its current simple form.
>     Are you also against into backporting it to prevent that we stop getting 
> useless crash reports? I worked on this for fixing a real world problem. Just 
> look at: 
>     
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=661927&bug_severity=crash&chfieldto=Now&query_format=advanced&chfield=[Bug%20creation]&chfieldfrom=2013-01-01&version=unspecified&longdesc=kwin%20%284.8&product=kwin&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr
>     
>     All crashes reported this year against KWin 4.8.
>     
>     Yes the dialog might not be best, but I cannot change it because it's in 
> string freeze. I agree that for 4.11 something better should be done, but 
> this is more for 4.10 and older (especially older).

Perhaps it might be worth requesting a string freeze exemption here?


- Ben


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On May 24, 2013, 2:54 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated May 24, 2013, 2:54 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KDE Runtime, Plasma, Ben Cooksley, and Myriam 
> Schweingruber.
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> Bugzilla provides a feature to disable versions. This means that the 
> developers do not want to have further reports for this version. Any crash 
> report is by that not helpful any more. So let's just disable reporting 
> crashes for such bugs.
> 
> If this change gets accepted I intend to backport it to 4.10 and to inform 
> kde-packagers about it to ship it as an update to *all* version they support. 
> This would automatically prevent most duplicates report we get e.g. for KWin.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   drkonqi/reportinterface.cpp 4190c40 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110633/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320217 - the bug was created with 
> version 4.10.60. Afterward the version got disabled and DrKonqi doesn't allow 
> me to report crashes for this version anymore.
> 
> 
> File Attachments
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> 
> With it disabled
>   
> http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/05/24/drkonqi-disabled.png
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
>

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