Hi
Text idea below
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:13:20 +0100, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org
wrote:
El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 22:56:06, Boudewijn Rempt va
escriure:
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
Some of them like kword and koffice are already in unmaintained and
closed
for bugs, not much more we can do with them other than deleting them
which i'm not sure it's a good idea.
Close the bugs as unmaintained? There's no reason to keep bugs open
for
dead projects.
In an ideal world you'd have biliions of bug triagers that would go
through
all the open bugs and move the ones that still exist to calligra for
example
(meaning i think there's still some sense to keep them there)
Others like kftpgrabber may be either suggested for new people to
adopt
them and if not moved to unmaintained.
I don't believe in that -- asking for maintainers never works. It's
vanishingly rare that an unmaintained project gets a new lease of life,
and it never happens if there's no maintainer around anymore to answer
questions.
I don't believe in things you belieave and vice-versa ;)
I guess we should also be really careful, as you said some software
is
done and the fact that it didn't get any development doesn't mean
it
should be killed.
Of course. But kmail (not kmail2) is _dead_. It's bugs should be
closed.
It's silly to see it cluttering up bugzilla's weekly top-twenty stats.
Same as before, ideally we'd have someone going over the bugs and
deciding
what still happens and what still not and move over to kmail2.
Now one way of doing this is crowdsourcing it to the reporters via a
nice
bug
closing email for every of the unmaintained bugs/apps.
In one hand it always pisses me a bit off when that happens (i.e. i
reported a
bug and the only acknowledgement i get is years later saying that it was
against an unmaintained version that i should re-check), in the other if
someone is able to write a nice text it may not be so bad.
I like this idea... possible text
Hi, Thank you for you contribution towards improving the KDE software
suite.
Bug reports from active users, merit the highest level of software testing
because
your use cases are real world, and not prescriptive.
The lifecycle of individual applications varies as projects develop and
stabilise, are superceeded or
simply become unmaintained. Active bug reporting, checking and triaging is
vital to an application project
In the case of your bug report { insert bug number, perhaps with link }
this project is no longer maintained
and there for we can not progress this bug further. We have now closed
this bug with status unmaintained.
Thanks again for your contribution and support
Best Wishes
The KDE Bug Tracking team
Just an initial idea, I hope it's helpful
Cheers
Rick
Anyway before someone does some mass closing of bugs I think we need to
take
sysadmins adivce on how to do it, not sure we want to create a huge
e.mail
storm.
Cheers,
Albert
boudewijn
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