Hi all, I just had a look at the versions of Plasma in bugs.kde.org and currently it is possible to open new bugs for old versions such as 4.5. Since the latest bugzilla release which is running on our servers it is possible to disable versions for new bug reports. This does not affect existing reports.
Restricting the number of available versions has several advantages: * the list of versions presented is much smaller making it easier for users to select the correct version * users clearly see that their version is outdated and it might not make sense to report that bug at all, e.g. if they want to report against 4.7.1 but only 4.7.4 is available they should recognize that 4 > 1 and that this means that they should install a bugfix release * it makes it more clear for triagers what is still maintained by the developers. If a bug gets nevertheless opened it is on "unspecified" and the triager knows that this version is no longer supported At KWin we have the following schema implemented: * Accept bugs for current stable and old stable (that is 4.9 and 4.8) * Accept bugs only for the latest two minors of a version (that is 4.8.4, 4.8.5, 4.9.0 and 4.9.1) The rational behind that: * once a .4 or .5 is released there will not be any further release on that branch * distributions are mostly one stable release behind (e.g. OpenSUSE 12.2 to be released next week will ship 4.8 and not 4.9) * distributions need some time till the latest minor hits their users -> we kind of need to accept bugreports for old stable -> supporting old old stable does not make any sense -> we need to accept bugs for more than just the latest minor If Plasma would like to follow this workflow established in KWin, I volunteer to close the old versions and will update after each release the versions (I currently already create the new versions for Plasma). Kind Regards Martin
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