https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369023
--- Comment #3 from YEK <kdenlive.k...@recursor.net> --- Hi Vincent, Thanks for responding quickly to my bug report. I appreciate that. I have copied and pasted the following from the first post in this bug report, "Also, for now please do not offer to help me debug my installation of Kdenlive 16.08.1. I will be glad to work with you on that later. For now I want to reinstall Kdenlive 16.04.3." By anticipating your response I hope you realize that I've been down the "reluctant beta testing path" with many developers over the years. "Come on. Install our new software. It's great! You'll love it. We've quashed all, er, uh, almost all of the bugs." At the moment, I don't want to help you fix your "bright shiny new object." Instead, I want to get back to work. and I have copied and pasted the following from the first post in this bug report, "I would like to reinstall Kdenlive Version 16.04.3 from the Synaptic Package Manager for Xubuntu..." Is that an unreasonable request? and I have copied and pasted the following from the first post in this bug report, "I do not mean to excoriate you, but instead explicitly remind you that—as I presume you are aware—it is considered proper software engineering practice to provide users with a downgrade path should they encounter bugs after upgrading to a new version." Now I am going to rebuke you. Please do not offer me the help you have unreasonably decided that I need, but instead the help I have reasonably requested based on a serious error your team has apparently committed by apparently failing to allow users to easily downgrade Kdenlive. This apparent failure clearly violates good software engineering practice. In other words, if I ask you what day of the week it is, February is an unreasonable response. A reasonable dialogue requires each party to answer each others reasonable points. You blatantly ignored my reasonable points and instead made an unreasonable request of your own. You are neither my doctor nor am I your patient. You do not know what is best for me. I want to get back to work. I don't want to go back and forth with you guys trying to debug my current installation of Kdenlive. Ok? I am not a software engineer but I wonder: how much trouble would it be for one of your team members to put Kdenlive Version 16.04.3 back up on the Synaptic Package Manager for Xubuntu? And furthermore, why don't you guys leave old versions of Kdenlive up the on the Synaptic Package Manager so that users could, at their discretion, download downgrade as they saw fit? Thanks, Yekutiel -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
