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 <[email protected]>: > Jean-Baptiste, Massimo, > > I can only second what Massimo said! > > Thank you very, very much for your tremendous work on Kdenlive! > > Harald > > > > -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- > Von: Massimo Stella <[email protected]> > Datum: 30.05.2016 11:33 (GMT+01:00) > An: [email protected], [email protected] > 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: [email protected] > Data: 29-mag-2016 20.50 > A: <[email protected]> > 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: > > 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: > > 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 ? > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > kdenlive mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdenlive > > > > _______________________________________________ > kdenlive mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdenlive > > -- 1111.1010.r.i.1101|n.o.i.s.1110|i.m.1010.g.1110|مقاومة fsf member #5439 usuario GNU/Linux #471966 |_|0|_| |_|_|0| |0|0|0| <a href="http://www.gunga.com.br";>gunga</a> <a href="http://www.tempoecoarte.com.br";>tempoecoarte</a> <a href="http://www.atelier-labs.org";>atelier-labs</a> <a href="http://www.mocambos.net";>rede mocambos</a>
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