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I agree, mistakes and vulnerabilites happen in all software commercial and open. Now I can only speak for RetroDECK but, we also make mistakes and need to do minor patches to fix those.
I think Jorge and the team handled it as you should: Be transparent, inform on all channels they can and learn from your mistakes.
Me personally have full confidence in them.
Those that try to hide or shift blame of mistakes are a bigger red flag in my book.
What we need is a popup IN THE OS that tells users how to troubleshoot.
Separate from the OS core, updatable individually, like an RSS feed with persistent popups using KDialog etc.
People, please; look at this.
It's inevitable that mistakes will happen.