[Bf-committers] Handling of user data.

[Ray Molenkamp]

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
>>
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