[kdenlive] R: Apologies and explanations

[farid abdelnour]

Hi JB,

First of all thank you for all your hard work making it possible to do our
jobs with free software! You are making the world a better place!

As you said, lets move forward making a better kdenlive.

Cheers :D




2016-05-30 13:27 GMT-03:00 Harald Albrecht <harald.albrecht at gmx.net>:

> Jean-Baptiste, Massimo,
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> I can only second what Massimo said!
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> Thank you very, very much for your tremendous work on Kdenlive!
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> Harald
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> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Von: Massimo Stella <maxstar at tin.it>
> Datum: 30.05.2016 11:33 (GMT+01:00)
> An: jb at kdenlive.org, kdenlive at kde.org
> Betreff: [kdenlive] R: Apologies and explanations
>
> HI. Personally I appreciate your explanations and excuses but you have
> nothing to apologize for: you're doing a great job and sometimes if a
> person is working, even the best one on its field, can make mistakes: only
> people who do nothing never make mistakes.
> I know that if I work with a piece of experimental software can happen
> everything so I pay attention on what I'm doing and I have always make
> backups. So don't worry and thanks always a lot for all you efforts and for
> the quality you are expressing with your volonteering work.
> Long life to Kdenlive! :)
>
> Massimo.
>
> ----Messaggio originale----
> Da: jb at kdenlive.org
> Data: 29-mag-2016 20.50
> A: <kdenlive at kde.org>
> Ogg: [kdenlive] Apologies and explanations
>
> Hi all,
>
> As you might know, a recent bug in Kdenlive's git master caused major data
> loss to some users. I am deeply sorry about it and would like to provide
> some details about what happened, why and what we did and plan about it.
>
> 1- what happened:
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> In Kdenlive, we sometimes manage a lot of temporary data. As I was working
> on a new feature (timeline preview), it generated lots of temporary
> rendered videos. So at some point, this data needs to be deleted. To do
> this, I used a standard Qt class, QDir. However, if for some reason QDir
> is
> not correctly initialized or an operation fails, it defaults to your home
> directory. You can guess the end. As with many bugs, the error did not
> trigger everytime, so when I tried it before committing, I did not realize
> the possible problem.
>
> 2 - how could such stupid code be committed:
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> One of the reason it was committed is that I have been working too much in
> the last weeks. Working on Kdenlive is great, but at some point I went too
> far. Combined with my day job, I did not sleep enough and committed this
> stupid mistake.
>
> 3 - what about the future, is it safe to use Kdenlive ?
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> As soon as I realized the extend of the problem, I commented out the
> problematic code and deleted the PPA packages. Git master is safe now, as
> is current kdenlive-master PPA built from the 26th of May :
> kdenlive - 4:16.07.70+git201605260633~ubuntu16.04.1
>
> Causing data loss on our users deeply affected me, and I think it should
> also be a big reminder for everyone that using a daily built development
> version from git is not safe, and that you must backup your data!
>
> I will put a big warning now on the development version, and will discuss
> with Vincent about possible changes in our PPA/development policy to help
> prevent such problems.
>
> I will also of course revise our temporary data handling to make sure such
> a mistake does not happen twice.
>
> So again, I send my sincere apologies and hope we can continue to move
> forward in the next months.
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