> On May 24, 2013, 11:44 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).
> 
> Ben Cooksley wrote:
>     Perhaps it might be worth requesting a string freeze exemption here?

> Perhaps it might be worth requesting a string freeze exemption here?
We would need that from each and every distribution. It doesn't help that KDE 
did the freeze exception and Debian is then not accepting the patch because it 
violates their policy.


- Martin


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On May 24, 2013, 4:54 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated May 24, 2013, 4:54 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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