worst release ever?

[Neal Becker]

On Thursday 15 January 2009, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009 8:04:04 am Neal Becker wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 January 2009 06:54:12 Neal Becker wrote:
> > > > I hate to say it, but at this point (4.2rc1) this is the least stable
> > > > kde I've seen.  kmail is now crashing repeatably.  Akonadi crashes
> > > > every time I open my calendar.  I hope it's not released like this.
> > >
> > > I hate to say it, but, in reviewing the list messages for the past day,
> > > this is the first indication from you of a problem. Did we miss
> > > something? Have you put out a query as to whether others are having the
> > > same issue? Have you made any attempt to figure out what is causing
> > > your crashes? You are blaming the release - are you really so sure?
> > > Only one other person is reporting a problem such as you describe, and
> > > he gave some specifics. I'm not having it across multiple machines -
> > > I'm sitting in front of two machines running kmail right this moment.
> > > Making big declarations may relieve frustration of the moment, but they
> > > don't usually lead to problem solving - a little more information from
> > > your situation could lead to a resolution of your problem - what were
> > > you doing before the crash, what log info can you provide, what's your
> > > hardware, etc. etc... Your subject line is dismissive, and insulting,
> > > of the hours and hours of work of many individuals and isn't going to
> > > help you get support - it could be true, but until you provide some
> > > data that others can replicate, you're just barking at the moon.
> >
> > Yes, yes, yes.  I have reported many bugs to bugs.kde, and frequently
> > also mention them here to see if others have the same experiences.
>
> Sorry you are so frustrated Neal.
> We do see your bug reports and I see your issues here.
>
> Sometimes I bring them to the attention of the appropriate developer
> and sometimes I don't have the time to do that.
>
> We only have a couple days before 4.2.0 final is tagged.
> If you could send me your top 2-3 most annoying bugs I will
> try to see what I can do about getting them fixed.
>
> -Allen, KDEPIM Module Coordinator

Thanks, very kind of you.  The two major issues now are:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180741
This turns out to be 100% repeatable.  Every day I receive a logwatch report 
which gets filed into a certain mail list, and when I try to delete it kmail 
crashes.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178220
Every time I start korganizer, I get 4 of these crash reports.  Also, any time 
I try to accept a ical invite message.  Also, whenever bug 180741 fires, I get 
4 of these crash reports. (Interesting, no?)

I could even live with a workaround, clearing out my akonadi related stuff, but 
I don't know how to do that.  The assumption here is that somewhere in the 
course of fooling around with my akonadi resource stuff I hosed up some 
database and that is causing the crashes.