[Rosegarden-devel] Congratulations on Thorn release, and two bug reports

[Jim C. <ml...@bu...>]

Hi Michael and the other Rosegarden developers.

First, I'd like to congratulate you all for the excellent, hard work
you've done on the QT4 port to get Thorn to it's current beta-release
level.  I've tried it out for the past couple weeks (started with
alpha2, then the 10.02 beta) and am quite impressed by it - it appears
to have virtually all of the functionality of the old version and has
several improvements that make it easier to use and improve the
workflow.

I think Michael McIntyre especially deserves a great deal of credit for
all of the effort he has put into this project.  (I'd like to give him
a long, standing ovation [hopefully, many others will join me],
although I think he deserves more than that - like a nice, expensive
keyboard/synthesizer.)  From what I can tell, Michael has been the
effective manager for the Thorn project and he also appears to function
as the main developer (AKA, they guy who has done the most coding,
bug-fixing, documenting, etc. work).  However, I realize that several
other people have also done a lot of work and deserve recognition; and I
think that Rosegarden would not exist as it is without Chris Cannam's
original hard work and the expertise he still contributes.  So -
congratulations to you all, with special praise to Michael for his
great dedication.

Now, for some bug reports, to try to help make the final February
release as good as possible:

First, I saw from one of Michael's emails to the devel list that the
beta release, which is the last release I tested on, is quite out of
date by now.  So, apologies if any of these bugs have been addressed
already.  By the way, I'm happy to enter these into the RG bug database
if that will save some work - just let me know.

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Title: core dump results from moving a segment all the way to the left

Severity: moderate

How to reproduce:

Record a track to create a segment with the recorded data.  Don't start
playing right away so that the segment starts after the beginning of the
"piece".

Move the segment to the beginning of the "piece" (all the way to the
left in the main window).  This causes rosegarden to exit with a
segmentation violation. jackd also crashes. (Does rg send jackd a signal
when it crashes?)

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Title: Rosegarden core dumps on quitting

Severity: minor

How to reproduce:

File -> Quit (or hit Ctl-Q)

Rosegarden aborts with a core dump.

(E.g., the following is was reported on my terminal:

[1]+  Aborted                 (core
dumped) /home/jtc/music/rosegarden/builds/rosegarden-10.02-beta/rosegarden
> /tmp/thorn-$$-6 2>&1
)



That's it for now.


Thanks.
Jim Cochrane