KNode crashes

[Neal Becker]

On Monday 23 February 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > KNode crashes about 50% of the time when I post something.
> > I know this has been reported as a bug,
> > but I wondered if anyone has worked out when it happens,
> > and if so whether it is possible to circumvent it?
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182322
>
> This will be fixed in kdelibs-4.2.0-11.fc10, now building in Koji.
>
> This was fixed upstream back on January 29! We need more efficient ways to
> identify serious bugs such as this and their fixes so we can get the fixes
> backported in a timely manner. Having KNode completely broken a month after
> upstream fixed the problem is not acceptable!
>
> Some questions we should ask ourselves:
> * Why was this not caught before 4.2.0 got pushed to testing? The update
> was only pushed to testing on February 5, if we had known about the issue
> and the fix we could have fixed it right away.
> * Why was this not caught when 4.2.0 was still in testing? The update was
> only pushed to stable on February 13, if we had known about the issue and
> the fix we could have fixed it before the update hit stable.
> * Once the bug was finally noticed (after the update hit stable), why did
> it take so long to find out that this is already fixed upstream and the
> revision? (Or if anybody already knew about it, why didn't you backport the
> fix or ask us to backport it? KNode being entirely unusable sure deserves
> an immediate fix!)
>
I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure I reported this loudly before the 
release.