[Kdenlive-devel] Request for more frequent releases

[David Roberts]

I agree - before I joined this list, I thought that the project had died since 
the previous release was so long ago.

On Thursday 16 November 2006 8:32 pm, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
> Dear JB and all,
>
> Would it be possible to have more frequent Kdenlive releases, for
> example each month or every two weeks?
>
> When installing Kdenlive remotely on workstations of members of the
> team, I noticed that Kdenlive was quite hard to install.
>
> For example, in the case of AMD64, you need a recent version of sox,
> compiled with fpic option, then you need MLT compiled with LDSAP
> packages. Finaly you can compile Kdenlive. In fact, very few people can
> install Kdenlive from SVN. Maybe less than 50, not a large audience!
>
> IMHO, it would be better to release more often. This would trigger
> packaging work for sox, mlt other thrird party software.
>
> Also, the most important impact would be for Kdenlive to spead rapidly
> in the free-software community. Kdenlive is a very attractive project,
> it would probably gain new developers quickly.
>
> On the converse, if Kdenlive is not release often, it wron't gain users
> and developers, and thus it will be more work for JB alone.
>
> IMHO, you can only gain from releasing more often. For example, I could
> work 10 hours on Monday without major breakage. It is enough for a 0.4
> release. Then you may add more image formats and slow motion and release
> 0.5 afterwards, in two weeks. Etc ...
>
> Kind regards,
> Jean-Michel
>
>
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