That task is over 3 years old though, it mostly reconfirms the notion that the people who set the priorities just don't see silently destroying end user data being a problem.
I hope this short thread serves as a wake-up call and this and the other core improvements you mentioned will be made more of a priority and time will actually be allocated for it in the next release cycle. But I'm not getting my hopes up here. --Ray On 2022-05-10 12:54 a.m., Bastien Montagne via Bf-committers wrote: > Hi Ray, > > We already have a task to address this issue: > > https://developer.blender.org/T61209 > > But this needs time to be properly handled, and these days we spend > everything besides regular maintenance on 'big projects', so... this one and > several other relatively small core improvements and fixes keep being delayed > from one release to the other. > > -- Bastien > > On 5/9/22 21:12, Ray Molenkamp via Bf-committers wrote: >> All, >> >> It's been years [1] (2018) since I last was rather >> vocal on this subject, but how is this [2] still >> happening? "Yes, blender deleted your data (and silently >> at that), that means it's working correctly!" cannot >> possibly be the best we can do, is it? >> >> While I'm excited with all the directions blender >> development is currently going, it's utterly depressing that >> users are still losing data on a daily basis because >> we can't quite get the basics right like "do not delete the >> users data without their consent". >> >> These are *NOT* isolated incidents [3]. Losing your >> data and learning about "the fake user" shouldn't be >> a right of passage to become "a real blender user". >> Users shouldn't be silently *losing* data in an operation >> ironically called *saving*. That's crazy, no other >> application behaves like this! >> >> Yes, I know this is how we have always done it. No, >> this is not OK, never was. >> Ton: Please make protecting the user’s data a >> priority, as it doesn’t seem this will happen otherwise. >> >> --Ray >> >> >> [1] https://devtalk.blender.org/t/oh-no/505/2 >> [2] https://developer.blender.org/T97968 >> [3] https://devtalk.blender.org/t/more/22715 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
