<div dir="ltr">That's a wonderful news!<div>Time for a blogpost on the KDEnlive website?</div><div>The media has recently spread the news that KDEnlive was dead, we should state that is not.</div><div><br></div><div>I can write some lines and try to put it on the website. I should have write access IIRC</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/5 Vincent PINON <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vincent.pinon@laposte.net" target="_blank">vincent.pinon@laposte.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello Kdenlive fans,<br>
<br>
I found JBM's phone number and decided to call yesterday evening.<br>
Good surprise: I talked to him!<br>
Topmost important, he is now fine.<br>
<br>
Here is my understanding of the situation; he may detail himself later on...<br>
<br>
He indeed had a forced break this summer.<br>
After this period off, he was a bit out of motivation, one reason beeing<br>
the refactoring appearing too huge a task.<br>
We agree that Till's redesign is very elegant and powerfull, but there<br>
are so many things to redo almost from scratch just to get the "old"<br>
functionalities...<br>
The "abrupt" switch was not the good way, we should actually plan a<br>
smoother transition, and plan a task *sharing*.<br>
<br>
This point matters: it proved again that a project relying on a single<br>
developer is very fragile (I note that for years he got help for bugfix<br>
& fine tunings, but few new functionalities).<br>
<br>
My conclusion is that we should stop holding our breath. We wouldn't<br>
interfere and he would actually appreciate if people take responsibilities.<br>
The plans I see:<br>
1) put master back in good shape, restoring v0.9.6+, and moving back<br>
refactoring effort into its branch.<br>
who: Jean-Noël, Laurent, Vincent (me)<br>
when: ~2 weeks<br>
2) apply to this master all the quality tools (coverity, cppcheck &<br>
all), and sort out the fixable bug report from mantis.<br>
who: Mikko, Vincent, Granjow?, EdRog?<br>
when: ~2 month<br>
3) communicate on website, terminate the forums move. What about pushing<br>
integration on KDE infra? (tracker, web...)<br>
who: volunteers for com (news, doc, tuto, forums)? +technical help from<br>
KDE fellows<br>
when: when new stuff available ;-)<br>
4) integrate new features: GPU powered monitor & effects, webvfx<br>
titler/synfig bridge, Qt5 port, whatever motivates you to code ;-)<br>
who: JBM? Granjow? Newcomers?<br>
when: 2014 to 2050 ;-)<br>
5) progressively integrate new design, for example moving first the<br>
effect stack, then the project manager, then the timeline (random<br>
sorting, I haven't studied the topic). The mix during the transition<br>
might be ugly, but I think it is better to keep all the functionality<br>
all along the process?<br>
who: Till (payd for another "summer of code")?, JBM? (Vincent?)<br>
when: 2014 summer to 2015<br>
<br>
(I put the names I noticed just as suggestion, of course everyone is free)<br>
<br>
If we manage to gather a small active team, it might be good to meet<br>
sometimes, by IRC, phone/video, and even aKademy?<br>
<br>
Don't hesistate to comment, complete or destroy these plans!<br>
<br>
Wish you all the best,<br>
<br>
Vincent.<br>
<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>-- <br>Tore Brigaglia<br>
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