RFC: should we remind people to upgrade?

[Mads Kiilerich]

Matt Mackall wrote, On 12/23/2012 09:31 PM:
> Something like 30% of bug reports are from people running copies of
> Mercurial that are a year old or more and who would benefit from
> upgrading. Perhaps we should gently remind people that their copy is
> getting stale.

I guess something could be achieved simply by rephrasing

   ** unknown exception encountered, please report by visiting
   ** http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BugTracker

to something like

   ** unknown exception encountered, please
   ** make sure you are using the latest Mercurial version, then
   ** visit http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BugTracker to find
   ** an existing bug report or file a new one

- and perhaps only show the bug tracker info if the Mercurial version is 
sufficiently recent (and no external extensions are enabled).

Some automatic "please update" message might be fine, but the 6 months 
grace perios seems a bit arbitrary. It could perhaps just as well be one 
month or less.

It would perhaps also help if the bugtracker made it more easy to search 
for closed issues.

/Mads