Re: [Audacity-quality] [Audacity-devel] Time Scale crashes in 2.02 rc2 WAS Re: Audacity 2.0.2rc2 (release candidate 2) is ready for testing.

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Okay, thanks.

Confusing. Is the consensus to release as is? Or another rc with
Clayton's new commit?

- V


On 8/15/2012 10:11 PM, Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
> "Vaughan Johnson" wrote?
>> I found, after lots more testing, another crash situation with this 
>> (http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557#c17).
>> But after many more iterations, I now cannot replicate the one I
>> described in http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557#c16.
>>
>> Should we just remove this effect for 2.0.2, release it in 2.0.3 when it
>> doesn't have these problems?
>>
>> I hate crashes, but if these are in the 0.01% occurrence range, it may
>> be worth offering the feature to those who will benefit.
> 
> My 2p is that we should try to include Sliding Time Scale. It would
> be a significant feature removal, given the bugs/limitations in 
> Change Tempo/ Change Pitch:
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/SoundTouch 
> 
> (I have had some input on those SoundTouch issues from Olli which I'll pass 
> on after 2.0.2).
> 
> Maybe it's a question of releasing what we think is the least crash-prone
> Time Scale "fix" that we can? I'll build Clayton's patch 
> ( http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557#c18 ) and see 
> how it performs. 
> 
> FWIW I could not get any more Time Scale crashes on Ubuntu in HEAD
> after I rebooted. Might be just a fluke result.  
> 
> 
> 
> Gale