Re: Bug#197049: ITP: conglomerate -- an XML editor for GNOME
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:54:23PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:49:15 +0200, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> said:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:48:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:12:03 +0200, Sven Luther
> >>
> >> > So it should be ok if i upload the package to unstable, even if
> >> > the package crashes often, and thus, since it is an XML editor,
> >> > the user can loose part of its work ?
> >>
> >>
> >> *Sigh*. Rules of thumb are no subst=itute for common sense or
> >> thinking.
> >>
> >> Did I not say data loss is reason enough for experimental?
> >>
> >> > At least i should add a warning in the long description then or
> >> > something such ?
> >>
> >> If it causes data loss, you should use experimental.
>
> > Well, the difference is between data loss on the disk and loss of
> > currently editing stuff.
>
> Is it your contention that it is useful for us to make that
> distinction? Why?
Because if it crashes before you have had time to enter any meaningfull
data, as it was doing, it is less grave as when it crashed after hours
of work. Also, i think you can distinguish between an app causing random
data loss of other data and an app causing loss of his own data.
Anyway, there is a new 0.5.3 version out who doesn't crash anymore, so
it could be a good candidate for unstable. That said the app doesn't
seem all that usefull yet to me, it is still work in progress, but then
in truth i am not really an XML expert, which is why an easy to use XML
editor for non experts appealed to me.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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