Re: [Audacity-devel] Where to report RC bugs

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 3:40 PM Steve Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
wrote:

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> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 14:55, Peter Sampson <
> pet...@gm...> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:06 PM Steve Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
>> wrote:
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>>> Where should bugs in RCs be reported?
>>>
>>> Reporting here for now:
>>>
>>> Testing on Xubuntu 20.04 with audacity-linux-3.0.3-RC2-x86_64.AppImage
>>> When
>>> UpdateScheduledTime=
>>> is set to an invalid value (such as nothing, as shown above), the
>>> Audacity splash screen opens, then nothing - the main Audacity window does
>>> not open, though Audacity is running. There's no error message, and no
>>> message in the terminal.
>>> The Audacity process has to be killed.
>>>
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>> Is this really a bug?
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> I think it is, because care has been taken with other settings to ensure
> that Audacity still launches if settings are invalid.
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>> The civilian user is not supposed to go around editing audacity.cfg.
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> True, but what if the audacity.cfg file gets corrupted somehow, or if a
> user does mess with it, or if a bug elsewhere writes an invalid value, ....
> Better if Audacity is more robust and can survive an invalid setting by
> (automatically) dropping back to the default, (as it does with other
> settings).
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>> If you do feel it is a bug I would log it as an RC bug on GitHub and fag
>> it as "Re;ease 3.0.3" in the Projects
>> and as "Audacity 3.0.3 in the Milestone field.
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> You mean add it as an "Issue"? (
> https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues)
>

Yepper, that's my understanding of the MUSE protocol  as it stands right
now.

Peter.



> Steve
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>> Peter.
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>>> I've tested a few other setting in audacity.cfg, and they appear to
>>> correctly revert to default settings when invalid.
>>>
>>> Steve
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