El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 23:37:30, Rick Timmis va escriure: > 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
It's nice. We would need another version for those bugs that belong to products that have other products the bug may apply to, say kmail -> kmail2, kword -> calligrawords, etc. Cheers, Albert > > 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> kde-community mailing list > >> kde-community@kde.org > >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kde-community mailing list > > kde-community@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community